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Resonanzen: Conjunto de Música Antigua Ars Longa / Paz
»Hofnarren & Hofzwerge«
Sunday
19
January
2025
19:30 – ca. 21:00
Mozart-Saal
Performers
Conjunto de Música Antigua Ars Longa
Teresa Paz, Sopran, Leitung
Programme
Hofnarren und Hofzwerge »Die wahren Herrscher am Hof Philipps IV.«
Note
Medienpartner Ö1 Club und Der Standard
Subscription series
Resonanzen
4er-Zyklus Resonanzen
Festival
Resonanzen »Alte Meister«
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Court jesters & court dwarfs
In Krista Fleischmann's documentary »Die Ursache bin ich selbst« (1986), the Hispanophile Thomas Bernhard once stands in front of the Velázquez portraits of the court jester Juan de Calabazas and the court dwarf Francisco Lezcano in the Prado: »The real ruler.« he says, »The idiot. Ruling absolutely. All two of them. Ruling debility. The real kings. Quite magnificent! The others are the real idiots.« No doubt: Bernhard recognized himself in the fool's freedom at the price of physical frailty. However, the Conjunto de Música Antigua Ars Longa is now attempting to reconstruct how this kind of mirror-acting might have actually taken place at the Madrid court of Philip IV with a semi-staged program. Freely adapted from Bernhard's dictum: »Folly is what makes us happy.«