»Urlicht Primal Light« – Gustav Mahler goes Circus
Circus Company Circa / Musicbanda Franui – Hamburg International Music Festival
€15
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65
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Remaining tickets occasionally available at box office
€15
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23
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46
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65
|
78
Remaining tickets occasionally available at box office
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Doors open 19:00
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Start 20:00
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End ca. 21:15
Clear the ring!
Musicbanda Franui, the Austrian ensemble known for its blend of chamber music and brass band, encounters the Australian circus company Circa: it unites the love of music by Gustav Mahler and a talent for poetic productions. In »Urlicht Primal Light«, people fly almost weightlessly above the stage and move in graceful choreographies. Franui also discovers new facets in songs by Mahler.
»What Franui achieves with Mahler, Circa achieves with circus – re-composing from tradition, respectful yet innovative, in search of new kinds of poetry. Together we create a symphony of bodies and music in Urlicht Primal Light,« says Yaron Lifschitz, artistic director of Circa. For 20 years, his company has thrilled audiences around the world with exhilarating shows, often set to classical music.
Musicbanda Franui brings its »Mahler Songs« to the project. The ensemble hails from a small Austrian village near Mahler’s last summer retreat. In the idyllic Alpine landscape where many of the composer’s works were written, the musicians feel a close connection to him. With their distinctive sound blending brass, strings and plucked instruments like harp, zither and hammered dulcimer, they reinterpret a selection of Mahler’s songs – without vocals, but with great joy in »their ever-surprising twists and the coexistence of sacred gravity and earthly laughter,« as Andreas Schett of Franui puts it.
Performers
Circa circus company
Musicbanda Franui
Yaron Lifschitz stage direction, lights
Andreas Schett musical director, composition
Markus Kraler musical arrangement, composition
Mark Middleton lights
Libby McDonnell costume design
Programme
»Urlicht Primal Light«
Gustav Mahler goes Circus
Promoter: HamburgMusik
Supported by the G. u. L. Powalla Bunny’s Stiftung
Co-production of the Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024, Circa, Franui Musicbanda, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, and Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi.
Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through the Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
