A hypersensitive young man leaves his familiar surroundings and sets off on a journey into the unknown. His only interlocutor is the imaginary voice of the stream that accompanies him, to which he silently pours out his soul. Then a disappointed love plunges his overflowing heart into chaos and, unable to communicate with others, the young miller finally meets his doom: he drowns himself in the very water to which he had only revealed his inner life.
In the field of tension between concertante song recital and staged performance, “herzzuvoll” focuses on the theme of male loneliness. We present Franz Schubert’s famous song cycle “Die Schöne Müllerin” and show it not as a tragic love story but as the psychogram of its protagonist, who is as sensitive as he is deeply lonely.
In contrast, the figure of a young poet enters the stage and breathes life into the texts that Schubert has omitted in his version. But the ironic narrator is increasingly caught up in the maelstrom of events and realizes that she is losing control of the story. Can she still avert the bitter end?
herzzuvoll is Liederabend reloaded: unexpected, intense, with a new perspective and yet committed to the original.
