Music by Johanna Doderer Libretto by Peter Turrini
Commissioned by the Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz
For the first time in a large orchestral version
First performance April 30, 2021
In German with German surtitles
Age recommendation: 12 years and above
90 Minuten, no interval
Franz Schubert sets off with his friends on a journey from Vienna to Atzenbrugg. The master builder's daughter Josepha von Weisborn, with whom the young composer is passionately in love, is also with them. He is unable to declare his feelings, in contrast with »handsome Franz« von Tassié, who is also keen on Josepha …
After the successful premiere of her opera »Liliom«, Johanna Doderer composed a new work for the stage as a commission for the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz: »Schuberts Reise nach Atzenbrugg«. Along with the famous Austrian poet Peter Turrini, she has created a gentle, sensuous work about life as an artist – cheerful, unfathomable and melancholy, in the Schubertian sense.