"Der Tod, das muss ein Wiener sein" (Georg Kreisler)
oder: "Was macht der Wolf im Kaffeehaus?"

Ein launiger Liederabend mit Werken von Hugo Wolf, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Georg Kreisler u. a.

The Viennese Kaffeehaus is an institution. One of a kind. A place you visit not only to drink coffee, but above all to meet people, observe people, spend time and find inspiration. The characters you meet in the Kaffeehaus are as diverse as life itself - sometimes in love, sometimes lonely, sometimes successful, sometimes failed, sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes disappointed... And where do all the threads in the Kaffeehaus come together? The maître d', who knows everyone and everything, pulling the strings in the background.

In this entertaining recital, we meet all these characters and their stories in songs from Hugo Wolf to Georg Kreisler - charmingly and captivatingly performed by artists who are well known to the IHWA, but who now show their humorous and tongue-in-cheek side here: Hagar Sharvit, Mikhail Timoshenko and Elitsa Desseva. Director Nikolaus Büchel - a native of Vienna who is also well known in Stuttgart - gives the whole thing a cabaret twist. And in the end, it remains to be seen whether Georg Kreisler is right...