Ludwig II. - Longing for Paradise
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| Title: | Ludwig II. - Longing for Paradise |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Franz Hummel |
| Book: | Stephan Barbarino |
| Lyrics: | Franz Hummel |
| Premiere: | April 7, 2000 |
Ludwig II. - Longing for Paradise is a musical about the life and death of the Bavarian King Ludwig II. The music was composed by Franz Hummel , the book is by Stephan Barbarino .
The play was premiered on April 7, 2000 in the Musical Theater Neuschwanstein in Füssen , which was built especially for this work . The set design for the very elaborate first production at the original location opposite Neuschwanstein Castle comes from the set designer Heinz Hauser , the costumes were created by the designer Joachim Herzog . Up until its preliminary last performance on December 31, 2003, the musical had over 1.5 million visitors.
The musical was newly staged for the German Theater in Munich . The premiere took place on August 4, 2005; the season lasted until October 2005. A major change in the new production was the inclusion of 3-D effects, which the visitors were given appropriate glasses to view .
From 2005 to 2007, another musical called Ludwig ² was played in the musical theater in Füssen, which has now been renamed the Neuschwanstein Festival Hall . Game operations were discontinued on March 1, 2007, but resumed in 2016.
In 2019 a revised version for city theater was created, which was performed for the first time at the Regensburg Theater in December 2019 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ musical key - Ludwig II. - Longing for Paradise - Theater Regensburg. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .