»DAS LIED DER TRIUMPHIERENDEN LIEBE«

Three is not always one too many - as the award-winning Trio Orelon proves, as does a look at the astonishingly silent "ménage à trois" between the celebrated singer Pauline Viardot (married to the writer Louis Viardot) and Ivan Turgenev. For the sake of his beloved, Turgenev left Russia and spent long periods of time in the couple's vicinity until his death. In the mystical story "The Song of Triumphant Love" (1881), the melancholic realist-romanticist wraps the events in the mask of an Italian Renaissance novella. At the center of this story of two friends courting the same woman, read by audience favorite Eva Mattes, is a beguiling Indian violin - which inspired Ernest Chausson to compose his famous "Poème".