MEDIATHEK

A music theatre production by pianist/narrator Christiaan Kuyvenhoven (laureate of the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition) and Gulnara Shafigullina (prizewinner of the International Vocal Competition, Den Bosch) directed by Laurens Krispijn de Boer.

Cosima tells the intriguing life story of the daughter of the nineteenth century piano virtuoso Franz Liszt. A lack of fatherly love in her youth leads Cosima to search for her own path to happiness. She knows that she has found her true purpose in life, when she becomes the wife of opera composer Richard Wagner. She devotes herself to his genius, to his soul. But at what price?

Through a theatre monologue and music by Liszt and Wagner, Christiaan Kuyvenhoven portraits a determined woman. Cosima is a personal and biographical love story about identity, devotion, justice and power.

Cosima has been performed numerous times in The Netherlands, Belgium and The United States (English text) In 2015 Christiaan will perform it in Lichfield and London (UK).