Everything for eternity! In order to come across as a fossil as possible, the Roman snail strikes a pose: "My house is only a fetish for me, the main thing is that I look aesthetically pleasing!" This is what the most famous work by composer Camille Saint-Saëns sounds like, after Roger Willemsen took it on and added very human (and quite contemporary) rhymes to the animal music - right down to the aquarium in which the fishermen's choirs live. Together with violinist Franziska Hölscher and pianist Marianna Shirinyan, actress Katja Riemann sees the Carnival of Animals as a bow to the audience - and as a carnival of happiness, a celebration of life. The test follows immediately: with Willemsen's version of the biblical story of Job ( The Tired Happiness ), which is also set in an animal setting, namely in a circus tent. "It's about everything," says Katja Riemann, "because we're asking how we want to live." The solution to all problems can be found here in working together. Musically too: with music by Mozart, Schnittke, Elgar, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.

Franziska Hölscher

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