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Schubert: Fierrabras

0.0 174 mins Music   2015
C major  
Director(s): Peter Stein

Release Date: 01 Mon, Jun 2015

Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this heroic-romantic opera has now been staged for the first time ever at the Salzburg Festival by famous director Peter Stein. Based on an old French 12th-century epic, the plot depicts the military conflict between Christians and Moors at the time of Charlemagne – as a backdrop to stories of love and friendship that prove to be stronger than war and hatred of otherness. The strong cast includes the “marvellously expressive miracle Dorothea Röschmann” (Die Zeit) and “Michael Schade, who exudes his exceptional tenor in Fierrabras’s heroic arias” (Der neue Merker). Under the energetic baton of lngo Metzmacher, the Vienna Philharmonic unfold “the melos, the poetry, the sweetness and the dramatic force of Schubert’s highly refined and atmospheric sound worlds” (Kleine Zeitung) in highly romantic fashion.

Casts of Schubert: Fierrabras

Michael Schade

as Fierrabras

Julia Kleiter

as Emma

Benjamin Bernheim

as Eginhard

Dorothea Röschmann

as Florinda

Markus Werba

as Roland

Georg Zeppenfeld

as Charlemagne

Marie-Claude Chappuis

as Maragond

Manuel Walser

as Brutamonte

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