Name: “Carmen à trois”
Start: 2025-08-20T19:00:00
Location: Schloss Johannisberg

Sabine Fischmann

Markus Neumeyer

Michael Quast

Rheingau Musik Festival

For many years, the man with the red trombone dreamed of celebrating a musical Christmas in the company of good friends and with a selection of very different Christmas carols that he had encountered over the course of his career. In 2006 the time had come, and because "Christmas With My Friends" was soon considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the most beautiful Christmas records ever recorded, several editions have since been produced. This format now also takes place with great regularity at the Rheingau Music Festival and attracts not only true jazz fans, but a broad audience during Advent to the beautiful Kurhaus Wiesbaden. With his musical confidants Jonas Knutsson, Johan Norberg, Clas Lassbo and the four singers Ida Sand, Sharon Dyall, Jessica Pilnäs and Jeanette Köhn, Nils Landgren ventures into traditional songs and cover versions of exquisite Christmas carols in this concert.

Nils Landgren: “Christmas with my friends”

Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal

What makes good musical cabaret? Presenting classical music in a humorous way without denouncing it. And that is precisely the recipe for success of the duo Sabine Fischmann and Michael Quast. Based on thorough analysis of the work and joyful musicality, they sometimes resort to drastic means – to the delight of the audience – and caricature the operatic cast with wit and charm. After "The Bat" and "Don Giovanni," which they presented at the Salzburg Festival, for example, the program now features another blockbuster of operatic literature, "Carmen," which is based on Bizet's original version as an opéra comique with spoken dialogue. Naturally, it is about the eternally feminine, the eternally masculine, and the eternally snappy. The rebellious little bird that Carmen sings of love as is not plucked, but freed from the cage of operatic convention.