The Swan Prince - Live your dream
The Swan Prince - Live Your Dream is a musical about the fairy tale king Ludwig II , which was shown for the first time in summer 2016 in ten performances (and three additional performances) on the Forggensee in Füssen . The Swan Prince is the first musical on a ship with scenes on land.
background
Script / lyrics / production / direction are by the artist couple Janet Chvatal & Marc Gremm . The music is from Nic Raine. The German translation was done by Esmeralda Endruweit. Volker Bleck took over the co-direction / staging. The assistant director was Christopher Green and the choreographers Volker Bleck and Nia Hawyes. Sound and lighting technology were controlled by Mario Ruschel. IPMedia, Dirk Pfeifer, was the technical coordinator for the scenes on land.
The musical was shown for the first time in the summer of 2016 on the Füssen on the Forggensee in Füssen. The action took place on a "musical deck" as well as individual scenes on land.
After sold out performances in the premiere year, production was revised in 2017 with a spectacle at the Roßhaupten hydroelectric power station .
The resumption of the musical in July 2018 on the Forggensee could not take place on the lake due to renovation work on the dam in Roßhaupten, instead the piece was performed in concert form in the Kaisersaal of the city of Füssen.
action
The musical tells the story of a young prince, the later fairy tale king Ludwig II. He has the courage to believe in his dreams. So he must z. B. save his dreams from the witch Kundry and the wizard Klingsor.
Cast (Premiere cast July 30, 2016)
- The swan prince: Linus Langenbacher
- Princess: Rosalie Kratzer
- Grandfather / Father / Magician Klingsor: Patrick Simper
- Mother / Witch Kundry: Suzan draftsman
- Servant: Christopher Green
- Young King: Elias Hermann
- Young Empress: Sarah Hummel
- Swan: Nia Hawyes
- King: Marc Gremm
- Empress: Janet Chvatal
- The people: Florian Kügle, Gideon Kratzer, Merit Langenbacher, Martina Läufle, Melanie Patzner, Philipp Maul, Sarah Maul, Sebastian Endres, Tanja Versal, Zoe Morisse
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Knight:
- Red Knight: Samuel Hollenstein
- Head of the Swan Knights: Dennis Hackl
- Swan Knight: Michael Wiesand, Nicco Zich
Track list
- King's Dream (Overture)
- We're going to sea (swan prince, grandfather)
- The legend of the lake (queen, swan prince, grandfather)
- One day when I'm king (princess, swan prince, grandfather)
- In Wonderland (Queen)
- The correspondence (Young Empress, Young King, Grandfather)
- You are my light (J. Empress, J. King, Empress, King)
- Burning hearts (empress, king)
- In the storm of time (swan)
- Apparition of the swan (swan)
- Discipline (servant)
- Klingsor & Kundry (Witch Kundry, Wizard Klingsor)
- Master Doubt (Magician Klingsor)
- The wheel of time (empress)
- Lonely I am (king)
- Rex Tremendae (The Ancestors)
- The Redemption (Swan Prince)
- Heavenly Choir (The Ancestors, the People)
- Live your dream (empress, king, the people)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Swan Prince - The Musical. In: www.derschwanenprinz.de. Retrieved August 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Michael Dumler: The musical "Schwanenprinz" on the Forggensee from the life of the young King Ludwig ( memento from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Allgäuer Zeitung, July 29, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Dumler: The Swan Prince: Musical project tells the story of young Ludwig on a Forggensee ship , Allgäuer Zeitung, October 30, 2015.
- ↑ Michael Dumler: Fairy-tale fight at the power station at the musical on Forggensee. In: Allgäuer Zeitung , July 28, 2017.
- ↑ Michael Dumler: re-performance of the musical The Swan Prince on the Forggensee in Füssen. In: Allgäuer Zeitung . 17th July 2017.
- ↑ Linus Langenbacher is "The Swan Prince". In: Füssen current. July 1, 2016, accessed August 6, 2016 .