Con spirito 2025: Bilder ohne Worte

AUFGEDECKT - Hidden messages in music

Hidden messages such as names, number symbolism, secret words, but also musical-ethnic backgrounds can be found in numerous compositions. We uncover these in the fifth season of the chamber music festival Con spirito.
Experience stars of the international chamber music scene from August 30 to September 7, 2025 in the salons and places of activity of Mendelssohn, Bach, the Schumanns, Grieg and Wagner.

Pictures without words - A musical play for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy with Bodecker & Neander and the Con spirito festival orchestra

The magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream envelops this fantastic picture theater with Bodecker & Neander and the Con spirito artists. 13 scenes take you into the universe of the artist Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Pantomime, film and object theater merge with the music and enable an extraordinary journey into Mendelssohn's life - without words - without explanation.

During a visit to the Mendelssohn House, the artist duo discovers a secret passage that leads to a suitcase and thus into another world. Mendelssohn himself and people who influenced him, such as his father Abraham, his teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter, Goethe and of course his sister Fanny, appear as if in a nocturnal dream and tell of the child prodigy, composer, conductor, painter, traveler and letter writer.

In combination with the collage-like arrangement of the music and a large portion of magic, a moving biography is sketched out and at the same time a multi-faceted picture of the artist is created.

Compagnie Bodecker & Neander | Pantomime
Tobias Feldmann, Maya Kasprzak, Emilija Kortus, Rosanne Philippens | violin
Sophie Kiening, Pauline Sachse | Viola |
Peter Bruns, Xiaotang Xu | violoncello
Benjamin Wand | double bass
Henrik Wahlgren | oboe
Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren | flute
Johannes Gmeinder | clarinet
Thomas Eberhardt | bassoon
Thomas Hauschild | horn

Musical direction: Peter Bruns
Written and directed by Lionel Ménard
Idea and production: Gregor Nowak