KeyWords: Wagner & Nietzsche

KeyWords is an experimental music-theatre performance about a relationship between two people as well as between music and text.

The story focuses on a both funny and dramatic friendship between Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche. The composer and philosopher shared a bond that began in mutual admiration and ended in profound disillusionment.

On stage, a pianist and a narrator bring this remarkable story to life through a dynamic interplay of theatre, live piano music, private letters and philosophical essays.

The result is a poetic, living dialogue in which grand ideas collide with personal emotions, revealing the complicated human beings behind the two monumental historical figures.