Reading is beautiful. And it’s especially nice when your favorite story comes to life with its heroes and heroines – spoken and sung on a stage by actors, musicians and perhaps even the authors themselves. Fortunately, there are several opportunities for this this March.
A story from France in 1625 has fascinated generations: the young D’Artagnan was sent to Paris by his father. He should introduce himself to the captain of the musketeers in order to be accepted into the king’s guard.
Curiously, as soon as he arrived, the hot-headed Gascon managed to make enemies of the musketeers Aramis, Athos and Porthos within just a few hours. But they become best friends when they have to fight against the evil Cardinal Richelieu and save the Queen’s honor according to the famous motto: “One for all, all for one!”.
“One for all, all for one!” – this motto applies not only to D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers, but also to the musicians of Concierto Munich.
(Photo: Carlos Domínguez-Nieto/Concierto Munich)
Concierto Munich brings the adventure of Alexandre Dumas directed by Carlos Domínguez-Nieto with the Diogenes Quartet March 17th on the stage of the Gasteig HP8to accompany the story they play Ludwig van Beethoven’s music for a knight’s ballet.
Awaken on the large rehearsal stage of the State Opera on March 8th, 9th and 10th the picture book heroes “Frank and Bert” to life: They are best friends and love to play hide and seek. But Bert isn’t good at it at all – that’s why Frank always wins. But maybe winning isn’t everything? Based on the children’s book by British author and illustrator Chris Naylor-Ballesteros, Richard Whilds, accompanist at the Bavarian State Opera, composed the music for the piece, which takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to the question of what constitutes real friendship.
Sabine Bohlmann (second from right) and her colleagues present “The story of the little dormouse who couldn’t fall asleep” as a musical reading.
(Photo: Munich Theater for Children)
Well-known performance all-rounders also show off their musical side during their guest appearances at the Munich Theater for Children: Sabine Bohlmann will be there on March 9th Together with Stephan Eppinger, Solly Aschkar and Toby Heinz and 36 (!) hats, their picture book “The Story of the Little Dormouse Who Couldn’t Fall Asleep” was brought to the stage. While Bohlmann (who many people will remember as the German voice of Lisa Simpson and Harry Potter’s Moaning Myrtle) brings the characters to life vocally, the three musicians play and sing songs with bass, guitar, drums, guitar, ukulele, glockenspiel and accordion .
Performance all-rounders Stefan Murr (left) and Heinz Josef Braun (right) at one of their popular musical readings – here reinforced by Braun’s wife Johanna Bittenbinder.
(Photo: Toni Heigl)
The following day, March 10th, Stefan Murr and Heinz-Josef Braun will present their idiosyncratic fairy tale “The brave Bavarian tailor”, for which they have once again invented many new characters and songs: There are not only the title hero Franze, Princess Vroni and her dad King Toni the Lazy of Bavaria, but also two servant rats, plus the nasty Prince Jean-Jaques de Papperlapapp, the unicorn lady Constanze and the wild boar Eberhard. The two authors, composers and actors take on all the roles themselves – Stefan Murr recently demonstrated his remarkable transformation skills once again as Aiwanger’s double in the Nockherberg Singspiel.