Das Paradies und die Peri

Directed by Tobias Kratzer

Starring Vera-Lotte Boecker, Eliza Boom

Robert Schumann’s secular oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri, created and first performed in 1843. The libretto derives from a German translation of a verse epic by the Irish writer Thomas More entitled Lalla Rookh, which in turn makes use of Persian mythology.