Open Air Schloss Solitude 2025

In 1874, Henrik Ibsen made Edvard Grieg an offer to compose the music for a stage version of the dramatic poem Peer Gynt. Setting this "cursed, inaccessible material" to music was no easy task. Grieg's Peer Gynt combines the Nordic folk tone with harsh harmonies and is a musical grotesque that "bristles with wit and bile from beginning to end". However, Peer Gynt is also a work full of poetry, which not only expresses the beauty of Nordic landscapes, but also accentuates the lyrical and emotional aspects of this dramatic music with Solveig's quasi leitmotif "Song".
Plot: Peer Gynt, the irrepressible, fantastical anti-hero, tries to escape the poverty-stricken confines of his village existence, increasingly falling for lies and self-deception in his unbridled egotism until he finally fails completely. As an uprooted castaway, he returns home, where he finds peace in the arms of Solveig, who has always been devoted to him.
The summer evening performances in the open air at Schloss Solitude are an atmospheric highlight at the end of the season.