Raphael Clamer

Strauss’ rarely performed bitter-sweet opera of an unhappy marriage fueled with jealousy.

Set in a mountainous and thickly wooded Bohemian landscape in the 17th century, Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischütz" (The Marksman) tells the tale of Max, a young gamekeeper. Max is in love with Agathe, daughter of the head ranger to Prince Ottokar. To win her hand, an ancient custom requires Max to prove his skill as a marksman on the morning of the wedding by shooting at any object the Prince may choose on the spur of the moment. Max is willing to do anything, absolutely anything to succeed - even at the cost of selling his soul to the demon Samiel. Recorded live at the Zürich Opera House, 1999.

Due to extraordinary circumstances, J.G. Irmler is paid his last respects. The irretrievability of its sound is a silent expression of the state of culture in the corona pandemic.

Queen Bum is a bedtime story invented on the spot by a father and daughter. Teeter-Totter-Town is a Queendom right up in the sky. The subjects Triangle and Fourangle are suffering from up and downs and would like to get rid of their Queen. The child tries to keep the story going, the father would like to end it. Finally the child manages to fall asleep.

Il y a des espaces qui déclenchent un sentiment de transcendance. Schaub veut explorer ce sentiment et nous conduit à travers les siècles des édifices sacrés occidentaux, aux architectes à l'intersection de la nature et de la lumière, des proportions et des mesures et toujours aussi à l'homme et son rapport à la nature, à l'existence, à la transcendance. Un voyage personnel à travers le temps, vers sa propre (in)-finitude.