Karneval des Glücks

This event features Katja Riemann, Franziska Hölscher, and Marianna Shirinyan performing Camille Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals with Roger Willemsen's rhymes. The performance explores themes of life, happiness, and community. It also includes Willemsen's version of the biblical Job story. The second part, Ver-FÜHRUNG, examines the consequences of extremist ideologies with texts about the Hanau and Bataclan attacks, alongside music by Mozart, Schnittke, Elgar, Prokofjew, Strawinsky, and Mahler. The program premieres in Schwetzingen.

A summary from original text in German | Read the original

Keywords: SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele