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2024年1月15日

Press comments on the premiere of the family-opera «Heidi und das Weihnachtswunder» (Heidi feiert Weihnachten)

The author Tim Krohn has expanded Johanna Spyri`s «Heidi» for the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn with a festive chapter. Fabian Müller`s musical language is once again intricate, rich in motifs, and variably orchestrated. Conductor Kaspar Zehnder, returning to the podium of the Sinfonieorchesters Biel Solothurn (Sobs), is familiar with Müller`s complex style and adeptly unifies the forces in the pit and on stage.
Peter König, Bieler Tagblatt

«The children`s choir plays a special role as a structuring element between the scenes in the snow. Müller has invented simple song melodies for it with detailed orchestral accompaniment and coloring. Once again, Fabian Müller has composed a very suggestive and eventful music that enjoys describing and narrating but also frequently comments or portrays emotional moods. There is a lot going on in the orchestra, and Kaspar Zehner, who leads the baton as in `Eiger,` is almost constantly challenged as a coordinator, but above all as a sound painter for Müller`s rich color palette. This music is not explicitly aimed at children, but children likely have no difficulty following its entertaining and suggestive narrative style.»
Reinmar Wagner, «Musik & Theater»

«A scenic and musical achievement. The premiere at the Stadttheater Biel was a great success because the creators skillfully avoid drowning Heidi, Peter, and Öhi in kitsch. Memories of the opera `Eiger` resurface; here, too, the mountain calls with shimmering violins and a drumbeat, the wind is suggested by imposing sound clusters that consistently maintain an atmospheric density.» Peter Wäch, Jungfrauzeitung

«Müller`s music imparts spontaneous, unaffected expressiveness to the characters in a recitative melos, and the colorfully flowing and atmospheric language of the orchestra, led by Kaspar Zehnder, resonates strongly with their feelings and situations.» Herbert Büttiker, Roccosound