
Heaven & Earth | Franui | Familie Flöz, masquerade | Anna Prohaska, soprano | Florian Boesch, baritone
A musical masquerade by the Flöz Family and Musicbanda Franui
This production was premiered at the Berlin State Opera in 2019: In it, Musicbanda meets the Flöz Family, a world-renown troupe of mimes that produce their theater of magic without words – but with marvelous music. In their first collaboration, Franui and Flöz concocted a Lied-opera consisting of music from Beethoven to Webern, in which they rhapsodize about love, longing, and hope… and how it might be reconciled with the inevitability of death. Together with the remarkable soprano Anna Prohaska und the equally exceptional baritone Florian Boesch, they dissect the psychic makeup of German romanticism. Spoiler alert: All ends well when death dies and love prevails.

Credits
Music
Inspired by Gustav Mahler, Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms
Producer
Michael Vogel
Production
Masks: Hajo Schüler
Stage: Felix Nolze
Costumes: Birgit Wentsch
Lighting: Reinhard Hubert
Sound: Stefan Schett
Video: Andreas Dihm
Dramaturgy: Jana Beckmann
Dance & choreography: Paul White

Trailer of the program
Trailer

Heaven & Earth
is a joint production by the Flöz family and Musicbanda Franui with the Berlin State Opera in coproduction with the Theaterhaus Stuttgart and the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund [Hauptstadtkulturfonds].
