Name: Winterreise, D. 911
Start: 2021-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater an der Wien

Organization

Singer

Florian Boesch

Soloist

Stage director

Ingo Kerkhove

Lighting designer

Franz Tscheck

Pianist

Malcolm Martineau

MusikTheater an der Wien

German

Winterreise, D. 911 -  (Winter Journey)

Vienna

Austria

Theater an der Wien

Grosser Pausenraum

Public

Winter Journey

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Conductor

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

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Makeup artist

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Poet

Repetiteur

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Tenor

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Bass

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Countertenor

Soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

One year before his death, Schubert completed the song cycle The Winter Journey to texts by the poet Wilhelm Müller. Travel is a theme that pervades Romanticism. Almost every German-speaker knows that “Wandering is the miller’s joy”, it being the first line of a popular folk song with lyrics from a poem by Müller who, as a writer, is still overshadowed by Heinrich Heine. Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill), Schubert’s first song cycle, is also based on poems by Müller and still has a chronological narrative. The Winter Journey, written five years later, is a string of associations encountered en route by a traveller. When Schubert began setting Müller’s poems in February 1827 he was already incurably ill with syphilis. His friend and patron Joseph von Spaun found the composer deeply melancholic at this time, and he also seemed physically unwell. When Schubert sang The Winter Journey for a small circle of friends “in a voice full of feeling”, Spaun was “dumbfounded by the sombre mood of these songs”. Schubert himself, who had announced The Winter Journey as “a cycle of terrifying songs” remarked that “These songs please me more than all the rest, and in time they will please you as well”. In the extensive repertoire of baritone Florian Boesch the lied occupies a very special position and is his own particular passion. As this season’s artist in residence, Boesch will also be performing as a lied singer at the Theater an der Wien and will present his own subtly individual approach to Schubert’s Winter Journey in which he seeks a personal evocation of a work based on real life: As a volunteer in the Prussian army the young Wilhelm Müller was rapidly promoted to lieutenant, then just as quickly cashiered when he fell in love with a Jewish tradesman’s wife in Brussels. Robbed of all hope, Müller marched back to Berlin from Brussels alone, on foot and in the depths of winter. Schubert, his death now inevitable, transposed Müller’s prevailing mood into music: the wanderer’s heart is in the grip of everlasting winter, only at night does he recall happier days, and he wavers between torpor and a hopless yearning for a better life.

English

Winter Journey by Schubert, From (2021/2021), Directed by Ingo Kerkhove,, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

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