Hotel Savoy - Bregenzer Festspiele (2024) - Hotel Savoy - Bregenzer Festspiele (2024)

Description

The novel ofJoseph Roth serves as the thematic basis of this musical theatre. Nearly all composers of the Silver Operetta Era share a common fate: they were driven into exile by the National Socialists. With them the art of light music also disappeared from the German-speaking world - a loss that the European classical music scene has not yet overcome. The fate of Paul Abraham seems emblematic of the suffering of many successful musicians of the Weimar Republic: driven mad, he conducts traffic in Times Square. With one ear picking up the sounds of history, the other open to the future - so to speak - knowing these life stories, operetta music can be heard in an interesting an original way. The Musicbanda Franui musically rearranges and recomposes the greatest hits from the period between 1900 and 1935, for this new interpretation. 

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