An acerbic and inventive visionary, Christoph Marthaler is a key figure on the theatre scene in Europe. Here he is transposing Schubert’s cycle of twenty lieder, Die schöne Müllerin, into a vocal, musical, choreographic and theatrical gem.

A stream for a confidant, love for a beautiful miller girl, silent ecstasy followed by mortal sorrow. In Marthaler’s grasp, the bucolic stream has turned into torrents of water, and similarly there is a sombre melancholy in insanity. Torment dislocates the bodies. The lieder become iridescent with searing polyphonies. Here there is no nature, no mill. Instead it is set in a severe bourgeois salon, where the voice of disenchantment sings its astounding songs behind closed doors.

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