Special offer. Orff: Astutuli
Michael Schanze (as The Entertainer), Winfried Hübner, Christoph Gehr & Michael Schlenger
Ensemble of the World Theatre Choirs Andechs & Young Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Mast (conductor) & Hellmuth Matiasek (stage director)
Special offer. Orff: Astutuli
Michael Schanze (as The Entertainer), Winfried Hübner, Christoph Gehr & Michael Schlenger
Ensemble of the World Theatre Choirs Andechs & Young Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Mast (conductor) & Hellmuth Matiasek (stage director)
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Stage and costumes: Thomas Pekny
Lights: Georg Boeshenz
Performed in the Florian Barn of the Andechs Monastery
A rascal’s tale, both fascinating and amusing, and presented in Orff’s “rootsy” and powerful Bavarian style. “Astutuli” are the cheeky super-bright people who get taken all too easily by a clever con-man. Nobody wants to be the dumb one; thus, the audience first lose a healthy sense of truth, then they lose their clothes and their purses and eventually all their dignity. “Everything is make-believe!” shouts the entertainer before disappearing with his accomplice and the loot. It’s a rascal’s tale, a story of deception, which is both fascinating and amusing. But behind all that – and unnoticeable until the very end – we find deceit, spoonfeeding and theft.
DVD-Video with English subtitles
Dolby Digital 5.1, DVD-9 / 105 min.
regional code: 0 (PAL, colour), frame size: 16 : 9
