FULL Die Träume (Koutnik) Festival alf laila wa laila 1 Vienna 2011 sirene Operntheater
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Festival alf laila wa laila
- Composer: Koutnik Paul
- Libretto: Kristine Tornquist Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Expedithalle der ehemaligen Ankerbrotfabrik Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Recorded: August 2011
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Johann Leutgeb, Sven Dúa Hjörleifsson, Marelize Gerber, Ida Aldrian, Benedikt Büllingen, Gaban Büllingen
- Conductor: François-Pierre Descamps
- Orchestra: Orchester. PHACE
- Stage Director: Kristine Tornquist
- Stage Designer: Jakob Scheid
- Costume Designer: Markus Kuscher
- Lighting Designer: Edgar Aichinger
Information about the Recording
- Published by: sirene
- Date Published: 2012
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, desubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
00:00 Der Traum
06:35 Der arme Mann
11:27 Tumult in der Nacht
14:43 Der Polizeioberst
19:39 Die Rückreise
23:44 Der Schatz
26:33 Applaus
A poor person from Baghdad is told in a dream that he will get rich in Cairo. He’s on the way. Once there, he is caught in a raid, is mistaken for a mosque thief, beaten up and ends up in front of the police colonel who wants to know what he is doing in Cairo. He tells his dream. The superintendent laughs at him as superstitious and tells his own dream from last night that he might go to Baghdad and dig up a treasure in a certain corner there. But he wasn’t so stupid as to believe such nonsense. The police colonel expels him from Cairo, the poor man sets off on the long way back. But he knows how to interpret the dream of the police colonel – and so his dream comes true after a few detours.
This story exists in the various manuscripts in different versions, but in all of them the police colonel, who thinks he is the wiser because he is more rational, is the stupid one. The time of origin of this story with the motive of the mosque theft can be assumed. Because at the end of the 9th century the traders were driven from the prayer rooms and the mosques were equipped with the famous and beautiful silver and sometimes gold-plated chandeliers that were hung from the ceiling on chains – these immediately attracted thieves. Cairo, “The Victorious”, and Baghdad, “God’s Gift”, are 1295 kilometers apart as the crow flies. Even if the arm could have walked in a straight line, it would have been walking for over a month at an average walking speed.