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A Midsummer Night's Dream Premier on february 25, 2006. Director: Jorinde Dröse, stage and costumes: Susanne Schuboth. Stage music composed and playback produced by Chronique de notre vie, which is Philipp Haagen, Lieven Brunckhorst and Fritz Feger. The complete soundtrack as .mp3 files can be found at www.philipphaagen.de. Here are Press voices about the premier. |
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Früchte des Nichts Premier on November 6, 2004 (not on the schedule anymore). Director: Christiane Pohle. Music composed and performed by Philipp Haagen and Fritz Feger. The stage music reaches from a let's call it punk-hardcore-prog sound, expressing the protest and rejection attitude of Foss and Gert, over "classical" stage music like a song for the swot Lebrecht, and Fellini-italian film music sounds for the great transfigural-sacral mysterium at the occasion of the assassination of Creszenz by Gert in the church. Please find, as always, the scores of the stage music, three music samples and press voices (commonly in German). (Top of page) |
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Jägermeister |
| On October 1, 2002, Thalia in der Gaußstrasse saw the first performance of a chamber opera which without an exception uses German folk songs as musical and textual material. The songbook (of course in German) proves it! |
| The family of the count is sitting together; mother and father sing an old ballad to their only daughter like parents have always did. But then, the idyll is disturbed because the father has booked three travelling musicians to liven up the the little one's birthday party. He did however not expect so much life: the daughter is on the verge from child to woman, and the three guest are, each in his way, immediately highly interested. The then inescapably unfolding confusion of emotions finally even seizes the good parents. Hence, they have, prior to the (for most of them) happy end, all to endure a great deal. |
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| Vernacular knew to sing during the recent millenium of almost everything which is on our minds today: love, unfaithfullness and jealousy, alcohol excesses, pedantery, loneliness, joie de vivre, fear of and longing for death, war and peace. Some of the old topics wore out a little bit, e.g. to go to the monastery in order to escape an unwanted marriage. On the other hand, some modern issues are refreshingly alien to German folk music, like the fear to lose one's youthfulness. From the intersection, Fritz Feger has compiled a playwright. |
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But mainly Jägermeister is of course concerned with music. German folk music is the source classical German composers (and poets)
have feasted on much more than occurs to us today. With the fall of the Third Reich - and not with the industrialization - German folk musik
has vanished from German culture. Only some degenerate form, known as Volkstümliche Musik, tortures us and prevents, together with
the trauma of the Third Reich German folk music is often associated with, a relaxed approach comparable to the situation in other cultures.
Enough evidence for the Thalia house band to look what's up there.
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Väter und Söhne For the playwright "Väter und Söhne" (Fathers and Sons) by Brian Friel after Turgenejew's novel with the same title Fritz Feger has written and produced a stage music. Director: Michael Talke, Premier: October 5, 2002 at Thalia Theater Hamburg. One of the two fathers, Nikolaj Petrowitsch Kirsanow, plays cello, according to the playwright. Of course you can hear this (and see it, too: here is the score). And then, he also gives a feast in honour of his returned son where he really struggles to make everybody feel great. This not least finds expression in his choice of music. (Top of page) |
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Wurzelbehandlung / Daß es Euch gefällt |
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On the second stage of Thalia Theater
at Gaußstrasse, Philipp Haagen, Michael Verhovec and Fritz Feger host, in their office as
house band of the Thalia, a concert series: the Wurzelbehandlung.
Performance dates can be found on the pages of
Thalia Theater or in the schedule on this site;
a description of the single volumes of the series can be obtained in the Wurzelbehandlung section.
The preliminarily ultimative Wurzelbehandlung is Daß es Euch gefällt, a motto- and timeless house concert which, as opposed to other instances of the series, is performed repeatedly as part of the regular repertoire of Thalia Theater. (Top of page) |
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Ricky California and the Rodeo Heroes Country & western trash with the Thalia house band and members of the actor ensemble. No story, bad costumes, bad songs presented with honest fervour. (Top of page) |
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Inferno / Paradiso / Purgatorio |
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Philipp Haagen, Michael Verhovec and Fritz Feger are also the stage musicians of the production "Inferno"
after the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Directed by Tomaz Pandur, stage and costumes by Marina Hellmann, stage music after compositions of Goran Bregovic.
Here, Philipp Haagen plays the tuba and sings, Michael Verhovec treats several percussion instruments including glockenspiel,
and Fritz Feger sings, plays cello and, in a memorable moment of the performance, blows with all his strength into a macedonian
woodwind instrument called surle or zurna.
The mp3 section has part of the stage music. Critique in the NEUE MUSIKZEITUNG from January 21, 2001 |
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The second and third part of the Divine Comedy, namely Purgatory and Paradise, premiered on
February 22 (A-premier) and 23, 2002 (B-premier). For this continuation of the collaboration between them and
director Tomaz Pandur, Philipp Haagen, Michael Verhovec and Fritz Feger have jointly taken over
musical direction from Erik Gedeon.
The self-ethnification of the three of them as, as was to be expected, experienced an escalation - maybe they managed to authentify themselves in the ursupated ethnicity, maybe they find, where they resist the corruptive suction of cult, canon and kitsch, the own inside the external! See the mp3 section for soundbites and the scores section for the scores of the whole stage music. (Top of page) |
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Kinder des Olymp |
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| The house band of Thalia Theater is on the stage in Andreas Kriegenburg's stage version of the film classic "Kinder des Olymp" (Les enfants du paradis). Musical direction and composition: Laurent Simonetti. Premiere: September 21, 2001, dernier November 16, 2002. With harmonium, tuba, percussion, cello, mandolin, accordeon and vocals it is joyfully poached in Musette, Tango, Jazz... |  |
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What the critics say.
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Auf dem Sonnenberg The sketch of swiss idyll with unexpected abysses in the mountain panorama, opened up by the defense of neutrality. A Thomas Hürlimann evening directed by Denise Haas with Fritz Feger on vocals and cello. (Top of page) |
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Stand By Your Man A music revue by Erik Gedeon (Thalia Vista Social Club etc.) with Tokunbo Akinro, Anna Depenbusch, Rainer Piwek and the Thalia house band. Evergreens from pop to jazz. (Top of page) |
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Der Notnagel The monologue for Michael Altmann "Der Notnagel" by F.K. Waechter (premier on September 26, 2001 on the studio stage of Thalia in der Gaußstraße, director: Gabriele Jacobi) exhibits a soundtrack produced by Michael Verhovec and Fritz Feger. Part of this soundtrack are three musical settings of lyrics included in F.K. Waechter's monologue by Fritz Feger, the scores of which for voice with piano accompagnement can be found in the scores section of this site. (Top of page) |
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Nachtasyl In the bar under the roof of Thalia Theater there take place concerts which are announced in the schedule of Thalia Theater. Concerts where Fritz Feger participates are also listed in the schedule on this pages. Fritz Feger also participated at the staging of the play this bar is named after: the play back soundtrack has music composed by Laurent Simonetti which is multitrack recorded by Henning Vater on violin and Fritz Feger on cello. (Top of page) |
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Drei Stunden On the occasion of the take over of the direction of Thalia Theater by Uli Khuon, Philipp Haagen, Michael Verhovec and Fritz Feger have been the backup band of the song revue "Drei Stunden" by Erik Gedeon. (Top of page) |
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