"Sprühende Funken" - a concert evening full of energy, emotion and musical diversity: when music sparks, the Staatstheater Cottbus pulsates.
The evening begins with Emilie Mayer's "Faust" overture, whose dramatic tension and dark tone colors set the tone for an intense concert evening. Immediately afterwards, the Piano Concerto in G minor by Dora Pejačević - interpreted by Oliver Triendl - transports the listener into a field of tension between late Romantic passion and pensive melancholy. The piano whispers, moans and soars - a mirror of human emotion, carried by sensitive orchestration. The centerpiece of the evening is Ludwig van Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in A major: rhythmically expressive, with a powerful pulse and dramatic structure. From the very first note, the rhythm carries you along - sometimes brisk, sometimes floating - until the work leads to a finale that seems almost dance-like and lights up the hall.
"Sprühende Funken" promises an audible spectrum of human emotions and musical expressiveness: dark shock, longing melody, ecstatic lust for life - all contained in an evening that makes music tangible as an immediate force.
April 10 and 12, 2026
