HEINRICH HEINE. PARIS. MUSIC

Heinrich Heine – the genius poet, freethinker and cultural journalist – spent half his life in the French capital. Censored in his German homeland, the »fatherland of champagne and the Marseillaise« offered him a vibrant refuge from political oppression. In Paris, he threw himself into social life, participating actively in the city’s musical life and meeting innumerable soloists, composers and conductors. With a sharp tongue, he commented on everything around him throughout his life, joining the ranks of the German-language poets most frequently set to music because of his wit and intellect. His poem »Du bist wie eine Blume« alone was set to music 400 times! This wonderful evening of recitation and music walks in Heine’s footsteps, in the high-carat shape of the star baritone Benjamin Appl, the actor Jens Harzer, who currently wears the »Iffland-Ring«, the great actress Barbara Auer and James Baillieu, one of the leading lied pianists.

BENJAMIN APPL BARITONE
JAMES BAILLIEU PIANO
BARBARA AUER NARRATOR
JENS HARZER RECITATION
HELMUT BUTZMANN CONZEPT

»… diese klingende Sündflut«. Musical Reading with Texts by Heinrich Heine and Music by Vincenzo Bellini, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Friedrich Silcher, Sigismund Thalberg, Pauline Viardot-García and Richard Wagner