Requiem for Fanny

Release Date: 2001-01-01

Overview: Requiem for Fanny recreates the world of Felix Mendelssohn, to the musical accompaniment of his beautiful String Quartet No. 2. In a period setting, actors and dancers perform around and about the musicians, evoking the composer's happy childhood and sophisticated milieu, as well as his close relationship with Goethe and his symbiotic relationship with his sister Fanny, herself a major composer.

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Cast

Le Quatuor Claudel

as Orchestra

Vlasta Vrana

as Narrator

Paul-Antoine Taillefer

as Felix Mendelssohn

Estelle Clareton

as Fanny Mendelssohn

Ariane Pare Brass

as Young Fanny Mendelssohn