Green Opera presents Fillu, a dramatised Liederabend based around the lifelong romance between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck's daughter, Eugenie Schumann and the Austrian soprano, Marie Fillunger. Both of these women led extraordinary lives in Germany and England in the late 19th-century but their history has been sadly overlooked. The project consisted of a selection of mid-late 19th-century Lieder interspersed with letters exchanged between the two lovers in the years 1875-1893.

Full programme available here. 

Writer/Director: Eleanor Burke 

Piano: Richard Gowers/ Henry Websdale

Translator: Moritz Grimm/Anna-Luise Wagner 

Eugenie Schumann: Chloë Allison/Ascelina Klee

Marie Fillunger: Anna-Luise Wagner/Helena Moore

Performances:​

7:30pm, Tuesday 11th August 2020 – St. Leonard's Church, Hythe, CT21, 5DN (JAM on the Marsh Virtual 2020)

​8:00pm, Wednesday 8th July 2020 – St. Saviour's Pimlico, SW1V 3QW (SouthWestFest Online)

​1:05pm, Monday 3rd February 2020 – Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music

8:30pm, Sunday 26th January 2020 – Selwyn College Hall, Selwyn College, Cambridge (The Minerva Festival 2020)

​2:30pm, Tuesday 21st January 2019 – Piano Gallery, Royal Academy of Music Museum, London

​7:30pm, Saturday 30th November 2019 – Old Library, Emmanuel College, Cambridge