THE SOLDIER'S TALE
CONCERT FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS IIa
Dan Tanson
Stage Director
Markus Subramaniam
Speaker
Shirley Brill
Clarinet
Zeynep Ayaydinli
Bassoon
Mathias Müller
Trumpet
Mohamed Aly
Trombone
Wolfram Brandl
Violin
Otto Tolonen
Double Bass
Elias Aboud
Percussion
Leonie Euler
Figurenspiel
Caspar Bankert
Figurenspiel
Melanie Sowa
Figuren- und Bühnenbau
Mario Hohmann
Figuren- und Bühnenbau
Igor Stravinsky
The Soldier's Tale
A common soldier, on leave from the troops, trades in his scratched violin for a promise of riches. But he has made a deal with the devil—which he only comes to realize when he returns to his village. An unconventional piece of music theater, The Soldier’s Tale was first seen on stage in 1918 in Lausanne. In their work, Igor Stravinsky and the Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz employ simple means to address a question that many people—children and adults alike—have asked themselves again and again: what makes us really happy?
Performance time 60 minutes / Age 6 and older / In German
Approximate running time: 1h without intermission
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