Credits:

Gabriele Ferro

Description:

Munich in the 13th century. On St. Johns Daythe summer solsticethere was a legend that if two people jump over a blazing fire together, their love will be fulfilled. Kunrad, a young man who has fallen in love at first sight with the mayors daughter, Demut, uses this legend to confess his love to her. However, humiliated in front of everyone (even though she is actually drawn to him), Demut impulsively gets her revenge on him. Enraged, Kunrad uses magical powers to extinguish every light and fire in the town. The town is thrown into chaos, and Kunrad is sentenced to death, but In 2014, the 150th anniversary of Richard Strausss (18641949) birth, his operas were performed extensively across the country. Among them were rare works such as this *Fire Peril*. His second opera, *Fire Peril*, composed in 1901, is a fairy-tale opera sung entirely in the Munich dialect. The entire work is rarely perfor