We all know it: suddenly a warm wind comes up and dries all the clouds from the sky. The mountains move closer together, everything seems closer, clearer, more beautiful, brighter and the sun shines in its massiveness: postcard magic! The “F\u00f6hn” wind has its origin on the northern slopes of our mountains. It is loved and feared, longed for and cursed. It can be felt as far as the border runs in the north of our country, and the Swiss themselves even complain that it afflicts them, tormenting them with headaches, bone aches and pains of the soul. The F\u00f6hn belongs to the alpine world and to the alpine countries like the mountains themselves. It is deeply rooted in everyday life and a piece of distinctive identity, bringing sweet magic and devastating devastation. The “F\u00f6hn” is an archaic, cyclical weather and drama of the Swiss cultural landscape that has always helped shape its uniqueness. Surprisingly, this theme is rarely found in the world of music and theater, nor as a radio play or in literature, apart from the poignant scene in Schiller’s \u201cWilliam Tell\u201d in the storm on Lake Uri…<\/p>\n
Christian Zehnder<\/p>\n
Musician and director Christian Zehnder wants to remedy this situation: his interdisciplinary music theater project “F\u00f6hn” explores, laments and celebrates this phenomenon that is so quintessentially Swiss. Swiss author Urs Widmer has written especially for this project, the myth of the “F\u00f6hn” in the Swiss Alps, which is still unwritten in the alpine cultural landscape.<\/p>\n
The “F\u00f6hn” woman: Susanne Elmark \u2013 coloratura soprano
\nThe narrator: Hansrudolf Twerenbold \u2013 speaker
\nThe farmer’s wife: Carina Braunschmidt \u2013 actress
\nThe farmer: Martin Hug \u2013 actor
\nThe mountain: Christian Zehnder \u2013 Submonk singing technique
\nThe weather caller: Christian Zehnder
\nNoisemaker: Fabian Degen<\/p>\n
Mens choir (Einstudierung: Fritz N\u00e4f):<\/p>\n
Akira Tachikawa: counter tenor
\nWalter Meier, Daniel Issa, Christian Reichen: tenor
\nErwin Schnider, Jean Bernard Arbeit, Othmar Sturm: baritone
\nSebastian Mattm\u00fcller, Florian Engelhardt: bass<\/p>\n
Text: Urs Widmer (1938\u20132014)
\nMusic: Fortunat Fr\u00f6lich (*1954)
\nConcept, direction, room concept: Christian Zehnder (*1961)
\nCo-composition: Christian Zehnder
\nChoreography: Theresa Rotemberg
\nCostumes: Karen Feelizitas Petermann
\nSound: Amadis Brugnoni
\nLighting: Makus K\u00fcry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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