The Pied Piper by Hiller, S 15 jūl 2023, No (2023/2023), Režisēja Markus Hertel,, Diriģents Robin Davis, Stadttheater, Pforzheim, Germany

With their "Hamelner Totentanz", which premiered in Dortmund in 1993, Michael Ende and Wilfried Hiller take a new, somber look at the well-known legend of the Brothers Grimm with parallels to current world events. For example, Ende understands the medieval figure of the “money shit”, the rat king, as “a tangle of power and economic interests in the sense of today’s lobbying work” and when writing about the victims, he thought of street children in Mexico City and New Delhi. Hiller found imaginative timbres for each scenery, for which he used sound elements such as chants or percussive elements. The Pied Piper or minstrel is also not scored by a singer, but by a solo clarinet. The figure and the instrument literally merge into one another. Their world of sound is based “stylistically strongly on Eastern Jewish music,