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Die tote Stadt

conductor
Thomas Guggeis
Director
Willy Decker
Furnishing
Wolfgang Gussmann
Paul
Klaus Florian Vogt
Marietta, dancer
Vida Mikneviciute
The apparition of Mary, Paul's deceased wife
Vida Mikneviciute
Frank, Paul's friend
Adrian Eröd
Brigitta, with Paul
Monika Bohinec
Fritz the Pierrot
Adrian Eröd

For years Paul has lived in Bruges only to remember his dead wife Marie. In a room in his house, which for him became the “Church of the Past”, he keeps all the things that remind him of her, including a braid of hair from the deceased. When his friend Frank visits him, Paul tells him about meeting a stranger who is completely like Marie. It is Marietta who is a guest dancer in Bruges and who has accepted Paul's invitation to visit him. She accepts his bouquet of roses and, accompanying herself to Marie's lute, sings the old song "Glück, which remained mir". The images of the dead Marie and those of Mariettas for Paul flow more and more together. When he wants to hug her, she wriggles away from him and goes to the rehearsal, but not without encouraging him to see him again in the theater. Paul sinks into a deep dream in which Marie approaches him from her portrait and reminds him of his loyalty. Suddenly he finds himself on the quay in front of Marietta's house. Frank appears with the key to her room. Paul knocks him down and snatches the key. Marietta returns from the theater with her troupe of comedians and improvises the awakening scene from Meyerbeer's opera "Robert the Devil" on the street in honor of Count Albert. Marietta plays Helene, who has risen from the dead. Paul intervenes and accuses her of blasphemy. Marietta takes up the fight with the dead rival. After spending a night together, Paul feels guilty. When a procession passed his house, Marietta mocked him for his piety. Finally she grabs Marie's braid. Paul wants to snatch it from her, throws Marietta down and strangles her ... Paul wakes up from his dream. Marietta appears to fetch the forgotten bouquet of roses. Frank also returns and Paul decides to leave Bruges, the "city of death", with him.

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