Peter Doss speaker
Norbert Frühwirth piano
Programme
Viktor Ullmann & Rainer Maria Rilke
The Ways of Love and Death by Cornet Christoph Rilke. Melodrama for narrator and piano
Rilke's story deals with Cornet's situation in the war against the Turks, in which he ultimately meets his death. Ullmann served as an ensign (cornet) in Italy during the First World War. As a soldier, he read the cycle of poems in verse while stationed there. In 1944, he turned the work into a melodrama for narrator and piano in the Theresienstadt concentration camp; Ullmann was deported to Auschwitz on 16 October 1944 and murdered.
Organised by Peter Doss. Tickets € 47,50/37,50/25,-/15,- (cat. 1/2/students/pupils) at the box office and via oeticket.
