Opera in in seven tableaux; libretto by the composer. Title from container. Paul Hindemith, Wolfgang Koch (Mathis), Kurt Streit (Albrecht von Branderburg), Franz Grundheber (Riedinger), Manuela Uhl (Ursula), Slovak Philharmonic Choir (chorus master Blanka Juhanakova), Wiener Symphoniker (conductor Bertrand de Billy). Filmed 2012 December Teater an der Wien, Viena, Austria Wide screen (16:9).
Summary:
Set during the turbulence of the German Peasants' revolt in the early stxteenth century, the work's focus is on artistic freedom of expression and human isolation during a time of plague, repression and violence. Hindemith wrote his own libretto finding in Grünewald a metaphor for his own times.
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