Name: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Start: 2021-11-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater Erfurt

Organization

Stage director

Matthew Ferraro

Conductor

Claudia Patanè

Costume designer

Carola Volles

Set designer

Choreographer

Gabrielle Zucker

Dramaturge

Larissa Wieczorek

Bass-baritone

Máté Sólyom-Nagy

Sweeney Todd

Mezzo-soprano

Katja Bildt

Mrs Lovett

Tenor

Thomas Klotz

Anthony Hope

Soprano

Steffi Regner

Johanna Barker

Juri Batukov

Judge Turpin

Tom Schimon

Tobias Ragg

Jörg Rathmann

Beadle Bamford

Susanne Seimel

Beggar woman

Karin Seyfried

Julian Freibott

Pirelli

Translator

Wilfried Steiner

Roman Hinze

Theater Erfurt

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street -  (Sweeney Todd)

Erfurt

Germany

Großes Haus

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sondheim

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Sondheims Musical-Meisterwerk erzählt die Moritat von einem mordenden Barbier und seiner gewissenlosen, die Opfer zu Fleischpasteten verarbeitenden Komplizin...

Fifteen years ago, Judge Turpin exiled barber Benjamin Barker so he could have sex with his wife in private. Full of hatred for the corrupt world in general and the judge in particular, Barker returns to London under the alias Sweeney Todd and wants revenge. He takes up his old craft again and from now on lets his adversaries with the razor feel what they deserve. His landlady, the greedy pie maker Mrs. Lovett, quickly turns the lifeless remnants of his bloody work into a morbidly delicious ingredient for her meat pies - and the latter soon become a bestseller...

Fascinated by the grotesque theatrics and the socio-critical potential of the drama set in Victorian London about the murderous barber and his unscrupulous accomplice, musical mastermind Stephen Sondheim created a lustfully macabre “black operetta”. In it, the bloodthirsty events are commented on with deep black humour, memorable ballads and eerily beautiful ensemble numbers in the style of a ballad singer. Inspired by the soundtracks of various horror films, Sondheim's musical version of the dime horror novel tells a pointed story about a man's bloody protest against political despotism, corruption and greed for profit - and thus created an award-winning masterpiece.

English

Sweeney Todd by Sondheim, Sat 15 Jan 2022, From (2021/2022), Directed by Matthew Ferraro,, Conductor Claudia Patanè, Theater Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

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