Seemannslieder

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Event Seemannslieder
Venue Sydney Theatre, Millers Point, Sydney, NSW
Umbrella Event Sydney Festival 2007
First Date 10 January 2007
Opening Date 10 January 2007
Last Date 13 October 2007
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Seemannslieder or Sailor Songs is a musical journey through a North European port town populated by women waiting for men and men longing for the sea, with the ever present promise and threat of the ocean. The result is a theatrical and musical odyssey of drunken darkness, hilarity, nonsense and sentimentality.
Christoph Marthaler creates theatre as a brilliant mosaic of musical composition in which the romantic sentimentality of folk ballads and schmaltzy pop songs gradually give way to beautifully rendered lieder. An evening of fragile souls, broken hopes, dreams and longing.
Description Source Other
Primary Genre Music Theatre
Secondary Genre Musical
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Christoph Marthaler Creator
Christoph Marthaler Director
Resources
Works
Text Nationality Belgium
Netherlands
Production Nationality Belgium
Netherlands
Further Information Performed in Dutch, Flemish, German, English and French with English surtitles. Australian premiere.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Brochure PROMPT Collection. National Library of Australia
Programme Sydney Festival
Event Identifier 70409
Dataset AusStage