© IHWA
Death, that must be a Viennese…
An evening in a Viennese coffee house
7 to 9 p.m., break
.. or what is the wolf doing in the coffee house?
This is where art song meets cabaret and classical song meets Viennese song and chanson. The Wiener Kaffeehaus is an institution. One of a kind. Humorously and always with a wink, the singer and pianist prove once again that genre boundaries exist only in the mind. Director Nikolaus Büchel, a native of Vienna, is behind this song theater, which was last performed at the Renitenz Theater in cooperation with the International Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart.
Contributors
Hagar Sharvit
Mezzo-soprano (waitress in the coffee house)
Mikhail Timoshenko
Baritone (various guests)
Elitsa Desseva
Piano (pianist in the coffee house)
Nikolaus Büchel
Director
Program
But how is it that the Viennese actually have more time for leisure hours in the café than any other working person? This is due to the nature of the Viennese coffee house, which is a rather complicated structure. Let’s take a quick look at the Viennese in the café: What is he doing in his favorite place? Is he hastily gulping down a coffee in order to surrender to the pace of life as a breadwinner with a scrap of brass music in his ear? — No, that’s not what the Viennese do. He has different plans. Depending on what kind of person he represents.
A production of the International Hugo Wolf Academy in collaboration with the Renitenz Theater