Opera Spanga | Dort wo du nicht bist

In a theatrical song recital, director Corina van Eijk and pianist/coach Mark van Nispen, together with young tenor Koen Masteling, investigate two 19th-century friendships. The focus is on the ambivalent first meeting between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller in Jena, and the friends Franz Schubert and Johann Mayrhofer, who live together in Vienna. How did the mutual adoration, which is characteristic of both friendships, influence the work of these artists and how open was the affection between these men in two cultural breeding grounds at the beginning of the Romantic period?