Fanny & Felix 9+
Quatuor Alfama & Circé Lethem
Dates
sun 22 sep 2019 - 15:00
location
Theaterstudio
price
€ 12 (standard) / € 8 (under-19s)
duration
1h Everyone has heard of the famous composer Felix Mendelssohn, but his big sister Fanny is less well known. And yet the pair grew up almost like twins! They were intimately connected until the end of their lives, both at a personal and at a musical level. Felix died three months after Fanny and dedicated his final string quartet to her. This performance paints a partly biographical, partly fictional portrait of Fanny and her relationship with her brother. We share her passion for music and theatre and see her burgeoning love for the painter Wilhelm Hensel. We follow her reveries, imagination and creativity, which lead to her own compositions. As a common thread running through the performance, there are fragments from the six string quartets by Felix Mendelssohn and the single string quartet that Fanny composed.
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