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A stage adaptation of Franz Schubert's cycle Die Winterreise with poems by Wilhelm Müller.
Synopsis of the show
This Winter Journey staged by the director and actor José Carlos Campos, a reference in international cabaret, and performed by two of the greatest exponents of artistic song in Europe: Manuel Gómez Ruiz (tenor) and Victoria Guerrero (pianist), takes the masterpiece of the Lied and puts on stage two tragic clowns: the walker and the organ grinder. The august clown is the big boy, romantic love, eternal hope. The whiteface is death, winter, the crow, the barking dog, the cold and the moon; both travel hand in hand in a moving proposal, full of plasticity and poetic drama.
Winterreise
Winter Journey is the cycle of 24 songs that Franz Schubert wrote in his last years of life. It is a poetic journey through darkness, through isolation, through cold both external and internal. The figure of the wanderer who feels excluded from his own world, a stranger in his own land, and the themes of inner searching and hope for the arrival of spring, have a deep resonance.
Cultured song or concert song is the name sometimes given to what the Germans know as Lieder, the French as mélodie, the Italians as canzone and the English as Art-song: the union of poem and music. It is a niche product, even within the niche that classical music already is; but Winter Journey is, incontestably, a great work of art that should be part of our common experience, to the same extent as “Shakespearean” theatre, Beethoven’s symphonies, or Delacroix’s paintings.
Schubert ennobled folk song, placing it on the same level as the highest art forms and transforming a world of poetry into music, he brought art song to its highest degree of expression in terms of elevation, insight and expansion of compositional technique.
Composer
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) was a composer of the late Classical and early Romantic periods. He produced a vast oeuvre during his short life, composing over 600 vocal works (mainly lieder), as well as several symphonies, operas and a large amount of piano music. He was extraordinarily talented from a young age, but appreciation for his music was limited during his lifetime. His work became more popular in the decades after his death and was praised by 19th-century composers including Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms and Liszt.
Poet
Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827), a member of the Berlin Society for the German Language and the Berlin Academy of Sciences, frequented the intellectual circles of the time and became friends with writers such as Goethe, Achim von Arnim, Ludwig Tieck and the Brothers Grimm. Frequently banned by Metternich's censorship, his works include Posthumous Poems of a Wandering Horn Player (which include The Fair Miller's Wife and Winter Journey), Songs of the Greeks, Love Rhymes from the Islands of the Archipelago and Lyrical Journeys and Epigrammatical Promenades.