Royal Danish Theatre Presents Performance By Volksbühne

In August 2005, Frank Castorfs Volksbühne staging of the Andersen-inspired My Snow Queen was presented at The Royal Danish Theatre. Now Frank Castof returns to the Royal Danish Theatre to challenge yet another classic.

Frank Castorf in joint association with opera and lied singer Christoph Homberger and installation artist Jonathan Meese has created a groundbreaking new staging of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Their radical new approach and musical adaptation of Wagner's opera is mindfully liberated from medieval kitsch and cosy folklore.

Wagner's opera will be performed with a chamber orchestra of wind instruments and piano accompanied by a choir of singers and actors from the Volksbühne ensemble.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Berliner Volksbühne and its side stage, Prater, have jointly established themselves as Europe's leading laboratory of experimental theatre. Frank Castorf assumed management of the Volksbühne in 1992, which marked the beginning of the theatre's rise to international fame and its revived commitment to cutting-edge drama. Castorf's Volksbühne mantra is: "To breed ambiguity and undermine meaning."

Meistersinger will be performed in German with Danish supertitles.

Meistersinger is produced by Volksbühne, Berlin, in joint collaboration with Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, and the Royal Danish Theatre. The performance will take place on 3 April 2007. -- www.kglteater.dk