The premiere of schräg/strich at the Salzburg Festival was a great success!
The premiere of schräg/strich at the Salzburg Festival was a great success! The thunderous closing applause including loud cheers, as well as the rave reviews, speak volumes:
?”The classic string quartet arrangement may also be broken. The musicians play standing, on their knees or lying down, and Guilherme Moraes amazes us as a cellist who can also play his instrument while walking through the room with it. [...] But above all, there is the music: two string quartets, by Mozart and Debussy, are the source material (or sound material) with which composer-arranger David Dramm plays, and with which [Caecilia] Thunnissen finds exciting and repeatedly comic scenes without words. How the Beija-flor Quartet remains musically sovereign with all the movement, too, is wonderful. And at the loud closing applause and cheers, all distance was forgotten anyway." Read the full review from Salzburger Nachrichten in German here.
?"The core idea is simple, the execution is beautifully poetic. Introducing a young audience to 'the string quartet,' that's what it's all about. [...] The young string quartet, whose members found each other at the Mozarteum Conservatory of Music, is truly multilingual: Haruna Shinoyama, Alkim Berk Önoglu, Camille Havel, Guilherme Moraes - it couldn't be more international, multicultural. But all roads lead to making music together. [...] Out of hearing and seeing beautiful stories are born. You will probably hear the two pieces of music with new ears from now on." Read the full review of DrehPunktKultur in German here.
On stage: Beija-flor String Quartet
Directed by Caecilia Thunnissen
Scenography: Morgana Machado Marques
Costumes: Merel van Marken Lichtenbelt
Music arrangement: David Dramm
Dramaturgy: Yorick Stam
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pzEcHZt0s.
Schräg/strich can still be seen August 8, 11, 17, and 22. Tickets can be purchased through https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/p/schraeg-strich.