...out of this world
Overview
Intro
Dance & String Quartet: Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” and Ezio Bosso, danced by Giulia Tonelli, Michele Pastorini, and Marc Jubete Bascompte, with the CHAARTS chamber artists.
A Bittersweet Encounter Between Two Geniuses—Dance & String Quartet
Death comes in the form of a woman. She does not threaten; she woos. And in the end, she embraces what none of us can resist.
Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” is among the most deeply moving works ever written for four strings—music by a twenty-seven-year-old who already knew he had little time left. This quartet is not merely played, but danced. Three bodies give form to the main characters: Schubert himself, devoted to beauty and searching. Death, silent and seductive. And a second composer who was heading toward the same horizon—the Italian Ezio Bosso, who celebrated life until the very end. His Fifth String Quartet, “Music for the Lodger,” responds to Schubert across more than two centuries.
In between, Schubert’s own words: “Beauty should inspire people throughout their entire lives—it is true—but the glow of this inspiration should illuminate everything else.” (1824)
The music is performed by the CHAARTS chamber artists—the Swiss ensemble founded in 2010 at the Künstlerhaus Boswil, which in 2026 became the first in the country to take the stage at the OPUS-KLASSIK Gala in Berlin. The CHAARTS are right at the heart of the action.
PROGRAM
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, “Death and the Maiden,” D 810
Ezio Bosso: String Quartet No. 5, “Music for the Lodger”
Letters by Franz Schubert and Ezio Bosso
CAST
Artistic Director: Giulia Tonelli
Choreography: Michele Pastorini
Dance: Giulia Tonelli, Michele Pastorini, Marc Jubete Bascompte
Music: CHAARTS chamber artists – David Castro-Balbi and Flavia Grubenmann (violin), Oszkár Varga (viola), Andreas Fleck (cello)
Giulia Tonelli, who grew up in Pisa, was a principal dancer with the Zurich Ballet and previously danced with the Royal Ballet and at La Scala. She became known to a wide audience through the film “Becoming Giulia” (2022). Michele Pastorini, born in Sicily, was a principal dancer at the Croatian National Theater in Rijeka. Marc Jubete Bascompte has been a principal dancer with the Hamburg Ballet since 2016.
Premiere: Thursday, November 19, 2026, 7:30 p.m., Kurtheater Baden. Box office and doors open at 6:30 p.m. Running time: approx. 75 minutes.
Additional performance: Saturday, November 21, 2026, 7:00 p.m., Künstlerhaus Boswil.
A production by CHAARTS chamber artists in collaboration with the Kurtheater Baden.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
| Contact address |
Andreas Fleck
CHAARTS Chamber Artists Flurstrasse 21 5623 Boswil 0787897554 musik@chaarts.ch |
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| Event Homepage | https://manager.chaarts.ch/nicht-von-dieser-welt/tickets |
| Video | http://www.youtube.com/v/XLjRKM9tg_s |
| Price |
Category 1: CHF 50.00
Category 2: CHF 40.00
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| Opening hours |
Box office and doors open at 6:30 p.m.; audience admission begins at 7:00 p.m. Running time: approximately 75 minutes.
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Event dates
- 19 نوفمبر, 2026
Online via the CHAARTS chamber artists ticket shop (link above). Tickets available at the box office starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Kurtheater Baden.
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