For the first time since 1842, Mozart’s clavichord is leaving Salzburg. His own instrument where he composed, dreamed and doubted. Between humming sewing machines in costume, the music from Papageno to the poor Violet suddenly becomes real, as though Mozart only just left the room.

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When the opera closes its doors and the lights go off in the foyer, the house’s hidden rooms come to life – the dressmaking studio between glowing sewing machines, the backstage between storing curtains, the Tischlerei in dim light. Baritone Georg Nigl opens up these secret spaces for three intimate encounters between song and text.

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart's original clavichord was kindly provided for these concerts by the Mozart Museums of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg.

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