Salzburger Marionettentheater Salzburger Marionettentheater

Musikfest Berlin

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Info

Igor Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat is a unique work: not an opera, but a play “to be read, to be played and to be danced”. Matthias Bundschuh’s staging of the music theatre can now be seen at this year’s Musikfest Berlin, following its much-lauded premiere at the 2025 Salzburg Festival in cooperation with the Salzburg Marionette Theatre. The marionettes for the production were designed by Georg Baselitz: Central to the painter, sculptor and graphic artist’s thinking was the idea that the marionettes should be created by the simplest means and reduced to their very essence. The distinguished artistic team is completed by the actor Dominique Horwitz as the speaker and a top-quality miniature orchestra that includes the violinist Isabelle Faust and her friends.

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Artists

The Puppeteers and their roles:
Edouard Funck, Ursula Winzer The Soldier
Philippe Brunner, Eva Wiener The Devil
Vladimir Fediakov, Maximilian Kiener-Laubenbacher The Princess
Veronika Grimme The King/The War Veteran
Marion Mayer The Herald/The Trumpeter
Philipp Schmidt The Drummer
Ensemble of the Salzburger Marionettentheater The Villagers

Dominique Horwitz speaker
Isabelle Faust violin
Pascal Moraguès clarinet
Giorgio Mandolesi bassoon
Reinhold Friedrich cornet
Ian Bousfield trombone
Wies de Boevé double bass
Raymond Curfs percussion

Matthias Bundschuh director
Georg Baselitz puppets and décor
Leonhard Winkler realisation of stage design and string puppets

 

 

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Programme

Igor Stravinsky
Histoire du soldat (Geschichte vom Soldaten)

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Additional information

_{In cooperation with Berliner Festspiele/Musikfest Berlin}