Eros, Wisdom, Irrationality
He is one of the most important composers in Western music history: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. What makes him so fascinating? That he composed music that has touched listeners for more than 250 years. That his countless masterpieces are highly complex and yet accessible to everyone. That his music is still young, refreshing, subtle and timeless in the 21st century, uniting opposites in a small space and allowing them to shine in classical balance.
Despite classical perfection, Mozart's music exudes mystery. Music and composer allow for closeness and yet appear enigmatic and distant. Purity and desire, innocence and eroticism are one in Mozart's music. Romanticism in particular found an ideal projection surface in it.
The 19th century made Mozart into a myth that still determines the reception of this immortal master today. In their program Eros, Wisdom, Unreason, Corinna Harfouch and Hideyo Harada follow some of his tracks and paint a picture of Mozart that is integrated into a surprising network of relationships between music, literature, philosophy and depth psychology.
Including Mozart's Da Ponte operas, his letters, philosophical writings by Plato and Kierkegaard as well as testimonies from the Romantic heirs, the result is a multifaceted portrait of one of the greatest geniuses in European cultural history.
Eros, Wisdom, Unreason is a dense and illuminating Mozart evening that goes far beyond the means of a musically framed reading: with acting elements, puppetry, recitation, singing, improvisation and close interaction between text and music, Harfouch and Harada succeed in creating an unusual concert format.
(IN GERMAN)
Participating artists
Corinna Harfouch (Rezitation)
Hideyo Harada (Klavier)
