Finally, after three hours, clothes come he in a black outfit and with huge glasses on the stage of the Basel Theater and is applauded just as the solo singer, choir, directing team and conductor were before. The experiment was a success: Herbert Grönemeyer proved with fury that he can also compose musicals. But was it even an experiment? Grönemeyer began his career as a theater musician and actor before becoming one of Germany’s most successful pop singers. The desire for catchy songs, charged with urgent energy and flippant language, is his trademark, even now in the high-octane musical comedy “Pferd eats Hut”, which is sold as an opera and which focuses on speed musically and scenically, on flashy, slapstick, dance, singing, Volume.
Herbert Grönemeyer as an opera composer in Basel – Culture
