Das Paradies und die Peri

Movie · 1h 38m

Starring Vera-Lotte Boecker, Eliza Boom, Kady Evanyshyn, Annika Schlicht

Robert Schumann’s secular oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri, created and first performed in 1843. The libretto derives from a German translation of a verse epic by the Irish writer Thomas More entitled Lalla Rookh, which in turn makes use of Persian mythology.