Dort wo du nicht bist

INFORMATION

In the theatrical song recital “Dort wo du nicht bist,” director Corina van Eijk and pianist/coach Mark van Nispen, together with the young tenor Koen Masteling, explore two 19th-century friendships.

The focus is on the ambivalent first meeting between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller in Jena, and on the friends Franz Schubert and Johann Mayrhofer, who lived together in Vienna. How did the mutual adoration—which characterized both friendships—influence the work of these artists, and how openly was the affection between these men expressed in these two cultural hotbeds at the dawn of Romanticism?

Director: Corina van Eijk
Pianist: Mark van Nispen
Tenor: Koen Masteling