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Through the Forest of Songs
Tallinn / Tartu
2.–10.05.2019
Mon, May 6 2019
19:00
Into the Fire

Tartu Harbour Theatre
Venue info + map

Ticket 19/15.20 €

Composer Märt-Matis Lill (Estonia)
Libretist Jan Kaus
Muusikajuht ja dirigent Paul Mägi
Dirigent Taavi Kull
Lavastaja Taago Tubin (Ugala Teater)
Kunstnik Liisa Soolepp
Valguskunstnik Margus Vaigur (Endla Teater)
Elektroonika Tammo Sumera
Koreograaf Janek Savolainen

Märt-Matis Lill, Jan Kaus, Taago Tubin
“Into the Fire” (2017 premiere)

At the Estonian Theatre Union’s annual award ceremony, the Musical Production Award is given to recognise a high calibre of musical production. The award recipients in 2018 are Märt-Matis Lill, Jan Kaus, Taago Tubin and Taavi Kull for the opera “Into the Fire”

War tests the fabric of humanity and forces us to admit that the only thing people learn from history is that they don’t learn anything from history. As such, our production deals with timeless universal principles and archetypes.

The principal source of inspiration for the opera, World War I, was revolutionary and with the advent of weapons of mass destruction, flouted all of the rules of “civilised” warfare. Historian Christopher Clark wrote: “The protagonists of 1914 were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseeing, haunted by dreams, yet blind to the reality of the horror they were about to bring into the world.” This metaphor aptly captures the nature of developments in our current world as well.

War can be poignant, giving us acts of heroism and noble hopes, but sooner or later it becomes subsumed in blood and mud, heroism turns to brutality or painful loss, and the great promises of collective happiness turn to personal tragedy for every individual. The maps of territories waiting to be conquered do not show the devastated landscapes.
Into the Fire relies on accounts of the Trojan War and recollections of those who fought in World War I.

Märt-Matis Lill, Jan Kaus, Taago Tubin
Premiere 22.04.2017, Harbour Theatre

In Estonian with English subtitles

Libretto (in English)

More info: www.vanemuine.ee

Trailer: Youtube

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