The Tölzer spokesman Klaus Wittmann completed his Orff-cycle with the “Christmas game” in the Tölzer puppet theatre.
Bad Tölz – With the “Christmas game” by Carl Orff spokesman Klaus Wittmann at the weekend in the Tölzer puppet theater, his much-publicized solely by the four-part “Bavarian world theatre” of the composer and author completed. After the Easter play, “Astutuli” and the “Bernauerin” also had this piece a little Disturbing: Orff’s Christmas game is free of any sweet Christmas romance and takes you into the world of malicious Hexenspuks, and satanic rituals.
The “silent night” of the Christian Christmas is celebrated three days after the winter solstice in the pagan world of imagination for the people of a similarly fundamental importance. In the stable of Bethlehem, Carl’s Orff in a night of black darkness and eerie sounds of Raven, in the midst of a hostile Blizzard, literally, the witches, the with their malicious damage spells already on the events of good Friday: “The child does not come to us, let it be… people have to’s seduce you, in the people and things that can do bring everyone to the cross, everything has its time.”
Christmas and Hexenspuk, glad tidings and destruction – it is so repel some friend of Christian, altbairischer Christmas traditions in front of the head. But Good and Evil, Faith, and demons of delusion really so strange? Just think of the secular authorities, together with relevant ecclesiastical forces of organized persecution of witches, their torture and executions at the stake, which fell tens of thousands of innocent people to be victims.
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highly concentrated and virtuosity thrilled Klaus Wittmann for his audience in the old Bavarian speciality dialect with Greek and Latin fragments, written a one-man-speech piece. With the voice of melody, and artistic figures of Speech and syllable repetitions that resemble a choppy musical staccato, overcome it, with its facets of expression is as sovereign as the many different colors of the libretto: the dialogue of the shepherds, the three kings in their search for the divine child, the cattle stable, outgoing, warm light, the image of a naked, dead Jesus.
“We want the car now,” says Music school head Harald Roßberger, sitting in mutva the audience: Together with Klaus Wittmann, the Tölzer school of music will bring on the second Sunday of advent in the coming year, the Orff’s stage version of this Christmas game with actors, choir, and (drums) orchestra at the Kurhaus stage – instead of the usual advent singing. In his disturbing abruptness, and hardness, the work is not like “probably all”, believes Roßberger. “But now we have to trust us because of our previous great collaboration.” rbe
