With Elke Heidenreich and the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock
Speaker: Elke Heidenreich
Mezzo-soprano: Kirsten Scott
Conductor: Marcus Bosch
Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock
Marc-Aurel Floros: Song of Eternity for orchestra (2025)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu (1962 - 1967)
Franz Schubert: Overture to Die Zauberharfe D 644 and music to Rosamunde D 797
as well as texts by Elke Heidenreich
If anything reaches us, it's music, says author Elke Heidenreich, who has the composer Alwa speak to the king. I think that two thousand years ago, Saul simply heard a beautiful song on his way to Damascus and became Paul, says the fairy tale text to the imaginary ballet music King Ubu by Bernd Alois Zimmermann.
Music penetrates our souls, makes the world more beautiful, people better - and happy. For the passionate music lover and connoisseur Elke Heidenreich, music is a constant companion. Her love of art, which begins where words end, also runs like a thread through her literary work.
In March 2025, Elke Heidenreich presented her essay on Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf at the Volkstheater. When she returns to Rostock, she will be reading to and about music as part of the Volkstheater summer in Halle 207. Her literary declaration of love to Franz Schubert is entwined with his heavenly incidental music to Rosamunde. Bernd Alois Zimmermann's amusing work Musique pour les soupers du roi Ubu, which gallops merrily through music history and scores with all kinds of well-known quotations, gives Heidenreich a satirical parable on the cultural industry - and ultimately turns the king into a reformed man ...
Look forward to an amusing and witty evening with words and music by Franz Schubert, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Marc-Aurel Floros. The musical director is Marcus Bosch.
