As an Unperfect Actor - Kreuzgangspiele extra

Shakespeare's sonnets newly set to music

Bernd Lhotzky has created a compelling new musical setting for a selection of William Shakespeare's sonnets. Actress Birgit Minichmayr brings these poems - written over 400 years ago - back to life alongside the composer and Quadro Nuevo. She opens up Shakespeare's mysterious poetry as a kaleidoscope of vastly different, sometimes contradictory emotions.

"The result: a celebration of lyrics turned into music." (BR Klassik)

Some verses speak of unwavering, sincere love - as reliable as a fixed star guiding a sailor - while others turn to frost, pain and death. Raw eroticism and platonic love. Whispering one moment, crying out the next, Birgit Minichmayr conjures extreme moods while shifting perspectives, roles and genders with ease.