Michael Schade Benjamin Bernheim Dorothea Röschmann Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by

staged by Peter Stein Franz Schubert

Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker The heroic-romantic “Fierrabras” of 1823 is the last of Franz Conductor Ingo Metzmacher Schubert’s fifteen stage works. Still seldom performed to this day, this Chorus Konzertvereinigung masterwork has been staged for the first time ever at the Wiener Staatsopernchor by master director Peter Stein in a brilliant performance. Chorus Master Ernst Raffelsberger Based on an old French twelfth-century heroic epic, the plot depicts the Stage Director Peter Stein military conflict between Christians and Moors at the time of . Emma, the Christian emperor’s daughter, becomes engaged against her Fierrabras father’s wishes with the knight Eginhard, who is not equal to her in social Emma Julia Kleiter status. She has an admirer, Fierrabras, the eponymous hero and son of the Eginhard Benjamin Bernheim prince of the Moors. After a monumental battle, the taking of prisoners and Florinda Dorothea Röschmann scenes from a military court, grandiose marches and victory celebrations, the noble Moor Fierrabras renounces his suit, which brings peace to the König Karl Georg Zeppenfeld warring factions and happiness for the lovers. Boland Peter Kálmán Maragond Marie-Claude Chappuis Presented also in the highest vocal quality, including the “marvellously Brutamonte Manuel Walser expressive miracle Dorothea Röschmann” (Die Zeit). Not to mention Ogier Franz Gruber “Michael Schade who exudes his exceptional in Fierrabras’s heroic et al. arias” (Der neue Merker). Under the baton of lngo Metzmacher, the velvety tones of the unfold in romantic flair. Produced by BFMI Set builder Ferdinand Wögerbauer fits into this concept in producing Video Director Andreas Morell the black-and-white aesthetic scenery in the style of old engravings and sumptuous nineteenth-century book illustrations in order to provide this Length: 163' slight work with rooms of stylish beauty and austere elegance for the Western Shot in HDTV 1080/50i world and sumptuous luxury for the Orient. Dressed in decoratively lavish Cat. no. A04050032 costumes, the Franks in delicately patterned lily-white garments, the Moors in similar black attire, the singers dovetail completely into this extraordinary A production of UNITEL CLASSICA staging. The result is a homogeneous melodrama like something from a lost in co-production with ZDF/3sat world in which “the melos, the poetry, the sweetness and the dramatic force in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival of Schubert’s highly refined and atmospheric sound worlds” Kleine( Zeitung) and the Wiener Philharmoniker unfold in a unique manner.

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