"Elegant and inventive."
-Financial Times

"A dark and enthralling tribute to Schubert’s genius."
-The Telegraph

"meticulous and fearless staging ….. it could not be done better"
-Observer

 

 

The Dark Mirror is a new theatrical adaptation of Schubert’s masterpiece. Backed by the Britten Sinfonia, Bostridge will take the lead in performing contemporary composer Hans Zender’s orchestral reimagining of the cycle, which transforms the original’s minimal piano into a rich musical tapestry. Schubert’s skeletal bleakness is bolstered into something that is by turns delicately romantic and at others expressionistically rhythmic.

 

 

Music: Hans Zender (Based on Winterreise by Franz Schubert)

Director, Designer, and Video Artist: Netia Jones

Tenor: Ian Bostridge

Conductor: Tim Murray

Orchestra: Shanghai Opera House Orchestra

 

Britten Sinfonia

Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley

Taichung Theater, Taiwan