FULL DAS LANGE ELEND Märchenoper (Scheufler) Frankfurt 2023 Annette Fischer, Guenaelle Mörth, Daniel Pohnert

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Das lange Elend  
• Composer: Scheufler August   
• Libretto: Loosely based on the Spanish “La Tia Miseria”  
• Venue & Opera Company: Neues Theater Frankfurt-Höchst, Germany  
• Recorded: September 8, 2023
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Annette Fischer, Guenaelle Mörth, Daniel Pohnert, Christopher Jähnig
• Conductor: Nicolai Bernstein  
• Orchestra: Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt  
• Chorus: Projektchor  
• Chorus Master: Julian Mörth  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: August Scheufler  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Children need fairy tales! Just like adults. Especially when it comes to fear, the fear of death.

August Scheufler took on the topic and adapted such a fairy tale. Loosely based on the Spanish “La Tia Miseria”, Ms. Elend outwits Death, who then can no longer get down from a pear tree and can no longer do his well-known and feared work. Nobody dies anymore.

Great! And now?
One day the people in the village want Mrs. Misery to free Death from his tree…

The music sounds weird, sweet, smug – in keeping with the scenery. Performed in concert by six vocal soloists, the Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt and a choir (as in the Scheufler opera “Frittenmoni” two years ago).