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Mozart fun and an opera cart
Villa Jacobs / Address: Bertiniweg 2, 14469 Potsdam
Bastien and Bastienne KV 50
one act piece by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Bastien — Gerald Beatty, tenor
Bastienne — Marie-Sophie Pollak, soprano
Colas — Thilo Dahlmann, bass
KAMMERAKADEMIE POTSDAM
Musical direction: Frank Markowitsch
Director: Christoph von Bernuth
This year the Music Festival takes the theatre cart the touring opera company used for the 2014 pasticcio "The Golden Apple" and moves the opera into the garden. A perfect setting for Mozart's amusing one act piece about shepherdess Bastiene who turns to "sorcerer" Colas for advice when she fears she might lose her beloved Bastien to a noble lady from the city.
12-year old Mozart has set the couple's stumbling towards their happy-end to music. The piece probably received its world premier in a garden: at the village sorcerer Cola's famous colleague and "miracle doctor" Franz Anton Messmer. The opera cart is moving - make sure you don't miss it.
A Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci and Kammerakademie Potsdam 2015 production. We wish to express our gratitude to the garden owners who kindly agreed to open their gardens to us.
In case of bad weather the opera is performed in the Orangery New Garden. For more info go to this site on the day of the concert from 14.00 h!
Please see also:
OHRPHON@Opera rehearsal for school children (in preparation)
more info ›
The premiere of "Bastien and Bastienne" takes place on 16th May 2015 at the opening of Kulturland Brandenburg 2015 maintheme: "gestalten. nutzen. bewahren. Landschaft im Wandel" at the Prince-Pückler-Park of Branitz.
www.kulturland-brandenburg.de