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Luzerner Theater Opera Ensemble | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Maria Radzikhovskiy | Marie Lambert-Le Bihan

Name: Luzerner Theater Opera Ensemble | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Maria Radzikhovskiy | Marie Lambert-Le Bihan
Start: 2026-08-28T20:00:00
Location: Lucerne Theatre

Lucerne Festival

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Is madness a means of escaping reality? Or — on the contrary — a way of confronting it? With his monodrama Eight Songs for a Mad King, Peter Maxwell Davies created in 1968 a brilliantly crafted character study of the deranged British monarch George III, whose reign began in 1760, drawing on the king’s own original texts. Seductive melodies stand alongside dissonances in this modern music-theater classic, which sketches a portrait of emotional and...

Program

Bushra El-Turk - Medeas Monolog

Peter Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King

Participants

Maria Radzikhovskiy

Conductor

Ilaria Ariemme

Costume Designer

Pia-Rabea Vornholt

Dramaturgy

Marie Lambert-Le Bihan

Director

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

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1 dates (28 Aug - 28 Aug)

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8:00 pm

Lucerne Theatre

Lucerne, Switzerland

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