Film & Music

Metropolis

Fritz Lang's futuristic masterpiece in the concert hall.

3/16

Saturday | 3/16/2024
7:30 pm Start of Concert
Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden
Floor Plan
59 | 49 | 42 | 36 | 27 | 20 €
9 € Young people

About the Concert

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"Metropolis" is the most famous German silent film. The masterful cinematic realization of a future image of the modern city is just as fascinating today as it was when it was made 100 years ago. The film is set in the architecture of the high-tech city of Metropolis. The working class and the ruling class live strictly separate lives here. When the son of the city president comes into contact with the lower class for the first time, he decides to change the circumstances. He starts a revolt. The monumental work was shot in 1925/26 by Fritz Lang in the Babelsberg film studios. It had its premiere in 1927. Shortly after the premiere, a version was cut that was shortened by 1,000 film meters and distorted in content. The original was lost. After years of painstaking work, it was possible to reconstruct the work without any gaps.
In our concert hall, this reconstructed version runs with the original music by Hupperts. Similar to Richard Wagner's operas, numerous leitmotifs guide the viewer through the film. And he also revives the musical late romanticism in his choice of sound language - but not exclusively: Huppertz likewise integrates jazz and machine music into his score, opening it up to the sound language of the twentieth century.

In collaboration with the European Film Philharmonic.

Program

Gottfried Huppertz
Metropolis

Contributer

Titus Engel
Conductor
Dresdner Philharmonie

Biographies

Titus Engel

Titus Engel is one of the greatest assets of the production, a polyglot Pultmann who thinks his way into Lehár just as he does into Shostakovich or Schönberg and actually conducts the mix of styles as such. Münchner Merkur, December 2021

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Dresdner Philharmonie

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That is the claim of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra stands for concerts at the highest artistic level, musical education for all ages and looking beyond the musical horizon. Guest performances on almost every continent and collaborations with guests from all over the world have established the reputation of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra in the international classical music world.  

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