EMERSON STRING QUARTET Comes to Theater St.Gallen This Month

Nach der erfolgreichen Uraufführung im Februar 2020 ist das berührende Musical Wüstenblume die dritte Spielzeit in Folge am Theater St.Gallen zu erleben: Die mitreissende Lebensgeschichte von Waris Dirie besticht durch den Willen einer jungen Frau, auf sich selbst gestellt durch das Leben zu kommen.

A “fantastic” program in the truest sense of the word marks the end of our Tonhalle concerts this season. In 1897 Richard Strauss created a musical monument to the tragi-comic story about Don Quixote and his peasant squire Sancho Panza. The solo cello is allowed to mime the “knight of the sad figure” with virtuosity, for which Johannes Moser returns to the St.Gallen Symphony Orchestra.

There were numerous stories about Paula Roth, the landlady of the “Bellaluna” in the Albula Valley, and when she was murdered in 1988, the “witch of the Albula Valley” finally became a legend. Films are made, their 'art' goes into the museum, a biography is written - it is made into an original and the 'Bellaluna' even becomes a place of worship. 

Giuseppe Verdi draws in his Messa da Requiem in an overwhelming and touching wayman's struggle with his destiny. As in his operas, his only funeral mass focuses on emotions; the music conjures up feelings of fear, anger, sadness and the desire for redemption and liberation, but also the hope for a new beginning.