100 Jahre Jedermann - Schedule, Program & Tickets
100 Jahre Jedermann
OCCUPATION
Bibiana Beglau Elisabeth, Queen of England
Birgit Minichmayr Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland
Itay Tiran Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Oliver Nägele Georg Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
Norman Hacker Wilhelm Cecil, Baron of Burleigh
Franz Pätzold Mortimer
and other
England in the second half of the 16th century. On the island raging - as in the whole of Europe - a merciless struggle for influence and power between supporters of the young Protestant Reformation movement and pope-loyal Catholics. In the night of August 23 to 24, 1572, the conflict in France finds its bloody, provisional climax: during the massacre on the night of St. Bartholomew thousands of Protestants lose their lives.
One must imagine the most famous of all queens conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, against the background of these mounds of corpses accumulating across Europe. Behind the diversity of the two historical personalities "the great contrasts of the time rise like gigantic shadows" (Stefan Zweig): here the Protestant, unmarried Queen of England, under whose subdued reform-oriented rule the island experiences a phase of prosperity, there the extroverted queen of Scotland Mary Stuart, passionate Catholic, devotee of the ancient, medieval order and notorious for her menswear. In the year 1800, Friedrich Schiller masterfully set this poetic monument to this conflict: Mary Stuart formulated legitimate claims to the throne on which Elisabeth sits. Then she has to flee Scotland from England because she is suspected of supporting the murder of her second husband, Lord Darnley. However, Queen Elizabeth, instead of giving her protection, keeps her prisoner for years. Numerous attempts by the Catholic side to liberate Mary fail. The advisory staff around Elisabeth is deeply divided: Should you let Maria live? Or should the crowned monarch be sentenced to death and executed? How will Elisabeth finally decide?
Maria Stuart is a political thriller, a historical exaggeration, a passionately guided examination of those questions that drove Schiller around in his life: What is the freedom of the individual? What is political power, and where does it end? What is justice? How is law made? And in which state do we want to live?
Directed by Burgtheater director Martin Kušej, the Salzburg Festival celebrates the centenary of Schiller's late work in the history of festivals - with the incomparable actresses Bibiana Beglau as Elisabeth and Birgit Minichmayr as Maria Stuart.
Subject to change.
Bibiana Beglau Elisabeth, Queen of England
Birgit Minichmayr Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland
Itay Tiran Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Oliver Nägele Georg Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
Norman Hacker Wilhelm Cecil, Baron of Burleigh
Franz Pätzold Mortimer
and other
England in the second half of the 16th century. On the island raging - as in the whole of Europe - a merciless struggle for influence and power between supporters of the young Protestant Reformation movement and pope-loyal Catholics. In the night of August 23 to 24, 1572, the conflict in France finds its bloody, provisional climax: during the massacre on the night of St. Bartholomew thousands of Protestants lose their lives.
One must imagine the most famous of all queens conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, against the background of these mounds of corpses accumulating across Europe. Behind the diversity of the two historical personalities "the great contrasts of the time rise like gigantic shadows" (Stefan Zweig): here the Protestant, unmarried Queen of England, under whose subdued reform-oriented rule the island experiences a phase of prosperity, there the extroverted queen of Scotland Mary Stuart, passionate Catholic, devotee of the ancient, medieval order and notorious for her menswear. In the year 1800, Friedrich Schiller masterfully set this poetic monument to this conflict: Mary Stuart formulated legitimate claims to the throne on which Elisabeth sits. Then she has to flee Scotland from England because she is suspected of supporting the murder of her second husband, Lord Darnley. However, Queen Elizabeth, instead of giving her protection, keeps her prisoner for years. Numerous attempts by the Catholic side to liberate Mary fail. The advisory staff around Elisabeth is deeply divided: Should you let Maria live? Or should the crowned monarch be sentenced to death and executed? How will Elisabeth finally decide?
Maria Stuart is a political thriller, a historical exaggeration, a passionately guided examination of those questions that drove Schiller around in his life: What is the freedom of the individual? What is political power, and where does it end? What is justice? How is law made? And in which state do we want to live?
Directed by Burgtheater director Martin Kušej, the Salzburg Festival celebrates the centenary of Schiller's late work in the history of festivals - with the incomparable actresses Bibiana Beglau as Elisabeth and Birgit Minichmayr as Maria Stuart.
Subject to change.
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