Guthrie Theater

Video: Old Wicked Songs

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Nominated for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in drama, Old Wicked Songs tells the story of a prodigious young pianist suffering an artistic block and the aging musician who helps re-ignite his inspiration. A third "character" in the play is the music of Robert Schumann, whose song cycle the Dichterliebe (Poet's Love) echoes throughout the work -- its structure and themes mirrored in the events on stage. Old Wicked Songs is an emotional journey through joy and sadness, anger and redemption, out of which emerges healing, inspiration and music.

This production contains strobe lighting and haze.

Programming in the Dowling Studio
is sponsored by and TRAVELERS. 

Special Recital
Schumann's Dichterliebe
September 21, 28 and October 5 at 4 p.m.
Dowling Studio

Baritone Bradley Greenwald and pianist Sonja Thompson will perform Schumann's Dichterliebe, the song cycle at the heart of Theater Latte Da's Old Wicked Songs. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit the Dichterliebe events page.