The Black Rider
| Musical dates | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Black Rider |
| Original title: | The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets |
| Original language: | English |
| Music: | Tom Waits |
| Book: | William S. Burroughs |
| Literary source: | Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz |
| Original direction: | Robert Wilson |
| Premiere: | March 31, 1990 |
| Place of premiere: | Thalia Theater in Hamburg |
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets is a music theater piece by the US-American director Robert Wilson , the composer Tom Waits and the author William S. Burroughs .
history
The play was premiered on March 31, 1990 in the Thalia Theater in Hamburg . The plot of the piece is based on the folk tale of Freischütz , on which Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz is based. The music was composed by Tom Waits and was released as the album of the same name The Black Rider in 1993.
action
The clerk Wilhelm falls in love with the pretty forester's daughter Käthchen, who is flattered by the attentions of the sensitive clerk and reciprocates his feelings. However, the hereditary forester Bertram and his wife Anne want a "real man", a robust guy for their daughter and favor the hunter boy Robert as their future husband. Full of ambition, Wilhelm now wants to prove himself to be a hunter and trains shooting. Unfortunately he is completely untalented and only lands dangerous misses. He has no choice but to accept the help offered by Stelzfuß, a seductive embodiment of the devil.
You can hit anything the shooter wants to hit with the free balls of the pedestal. Now the untalented Wilhelm is also an accurate hunter and feels euphoric about his success. The supply of free balls melts quickly and so the clerk has to pour new balls into the Wolfsschlucht. But Stelzfuß now shows his true devilish face and admits Wilhelm only six hits. Stelzfuß wants to steer the seventh shot into the target himself. And so in the end in the all-important contest between the suitors of Käthchen, the seventh bullet fired by Wilhelm hits Käthchen's heart.
Track list
- Lucky Day - 2:26
- The Black Rider - 3:20
- November - 2:50
- Just The Right Bullets - 3:35
- Black Box Theme - 2:45
- 'T Ain't No Sin - 2:35
- Flash Pan Hunter (Intro) - 1:11
- That's The Way - 1:11
- The Briar And The Rose - 3:50
- Russian Dance - 3:10
- Gospel Train (Orchestral) - 2:35
- I'll Shoot The Moon - 3:50
- Flash Pan Hunter - 3:05
- Crossroads - 2:45
- Gospel Train - 4:40
- Interlude - 0:30
- Oily Night - 4:25
- Lucky Day - 3:45
- The Last Rose of Summer - 2:10
- Carnival - 1:30
Awards
In the production by Robert Wilson:
- For the costume design , Frida Parmeggiani was honored by Theater heute as the best costume designer of 1990
Later productions won
- the Jessie Richardson Award 2008 in the Outstanding Production (Large Theater) category
- the The City of Edmonton's Salute to Excellence "Performance and Citation Award" 2006
- the Betty Mitchell Award 2005 for Best Musical Production
- the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Theater Award 2005 for Best Production of a Musical
literature
- Gregor Herzfeld : On the romance reception in "The Black Rider" by William Burroughs, Robert Wilson and Tom Waits. In: Jürgen Kühnel et al. (Ed.): The Schaubühne in the epoch of the Freischütz. Romantic theater and music theater, lectures at the Salzburg Symposium 2007. Müller-Speiser, Anif / Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-902537-14-0 , pp. 330–343.
Web links
- Bernhard Hartmann: The masterpiece. Discussion in the General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , December 31, 1999, accessed on August 15, 2012.
- Review of a production by Andreas Kriegenburg at the Residenztheater in Munich , at Spiegel Online on January 31, 2000, accessed on August 15, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ novembertheatre.com ( Memento from August 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive )