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Opera in three pictures
Text by Paul Schott
actually Julius and Erich Wolfgang Korngold
after Georges Rodenbach
Language German

After the death of his wife Marie, Paul has withdrawn into a petrified, destructive world of memories in Bruges, the "dead city".

In a "church of the past" he keeps everything that reminds him of the dead - and binds him. But the grief paralyzes, hollows out and keeps Paul away from the present and the future. Until he meets Marietta, the spitting image of the deceased. The femme fatale awakens erotic desires, but also the pull of memory - and brings him to the limits of his existence.

Cast

Paul Klaus Florian Vogt
Marietta, dancer Vida Mikneviciute
Frank, Paul's friend Andrè Schuen
Fritz, the Pierrot Andrè Schuen

Conductor Sebastian Weigle
Director Willy Decker
Set design Wolfgang Gussmann

Subject to change without notice.