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Himmelsgeigen

State Theatre Innsbruck

Farbverlauf im Hintergrund

Musical direction & arrangement Anna Sophie Brüning

Director & libretto Paula Fünfeck

with Orchestra & Ensemble of the State Theatre Innsbruck

Music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Claudio Monteverdi

Premiere June 2016

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In the thirty years of war, when horror was the order of the day, you gave the world rare beauty.

An Opera about the life of Jakob Stainer, a violin-maker born in Absam in 1617. He was the most important violin-maker north of the Alps and an unassimilated free spirit. The allegorical figures of Cupid, Faith and Hope accompany him through his dramatic life.

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