Liam sings music by Monteverdi and Purcell, exploring themes of love and war - in concert with members of the Opera Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper.

Songs of Love and War 

The first program in the series STELLDICHEIN! takes up the motto of the 2022/23 season and is dedicated to songs and lyrics about love and war.
War metaphors and images of fighting and victory have always been among the topoi of love poetry, as set to music by Claudio Monteverdi and Henry Purcell. It seems as if both belong to man, war and love.

Declarations of love are rarely for eternity and neither are peace treaties. Beginning with the oldest known text, the Peace Treaty of Kaddesh (1259 BC), they pledge everlasting friendships, repeatedly invoke eternal peace - and yet they have to be renewed again and again. “The word 'eternal' plays a cute role in political treaties,” remarked Nobel Peace Prize winner Bertha von Suttner, because time and again the treaties only grant a breathing space, and peace is always only temporary peace.

Is there really no escape from the cycle between rapprochement and constantly erupting life-or-death conflicts?

Love songs and madrigals as well as texts from peace treaties from several centuries tell of the eternal failure of mankind to achieve its greatest wish, which it longs for and implores from God: IN TERRA PAX (peace on earth).

Idea and concept: Corinna Jarosch

Scenery: Max Koch

Dramaturgy: Katharina Ortmann