Zarah 47 – Opernhaus Chemnitz, Chemnitz

About this event

It is March 15, 1947, Zarah Leander's 40th birthday. Four years earlier, still the celebrated star of UFA, she is now unemployed and waits in vain for birthday guests and offers. Persona non grata in Sweden, banned from working in Germany, the diva justifies herself in a furious monologue. Clever, with a lot of wit and without any scruples, she proclaims the credo of many Nazi artists: to have known nothing. She gets caught up in her own life lies, her melancholic songs become bitterly evil comments on a career bought with political looking away. So she walks alone through her rooms at Gut Lönö in Sweden. No one answers. Zarah begins to reminisce … and of course to sing. Peter Lund's musical monologue is an act of theatrical brilliance for a singing performer. In the Chemnitz Production, Sylvia Schramm-Heilfort slips into the role of Zarah Leander and, in the intimate atmosphere of the Operncafé, grants insights into the eventful life of the Grande Dame with the special voice.