Kreutzer
BenFeng Music Productions and Thunder River Theatre Company Present:
KREUTZER
September 26, 27 & 28, 2025
SHOWTIMES:
September 26 at 7:30pm
September 27 at 2:00pm & 7:30pm
September 28 at 2:00pm
Thunder River Theatre Company
67 Promenade, Carbondale, CO
Kreutzer is a genre-blending theatrical production that fuses three masterworks—Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, Tolstoy’s incendiary novella The Kreutzer Sonata, and Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1 (Kreutzer Sonata)—into a provocative tale of jealousy and redemption. Set aboard a train with no clear beginning or end, the production immerses audiences in a powerful emotional landscape enriched by a haunting score interwoven with music by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Ljova, and Tavener.
Exclusive Concert Preview Events
Sunday, September 14 at 2:00pm
Third Street Center - Carbondale, CO
Monday, September 15 at 2:00pm
CMC Art Gallery - Aspen, CO
Join us for an in-depth look at the fascinating ways music and literature are interwoven into the Kreutzer production with Dr. Tom Buesch, professor of Arts and Humanities at Colorado Mountain College (CMC).
Dr. Tom Buesch has loved classical music and great literature since his early teens. His favorite composers are Beethoven, Mozart, and Wagner. His favorite authors are Faulkner, Eliot, Mann, Goethe, and Rilke. Buesch received his Masters and Ph.D. in German Language and Literature at Northwestern. He spent 17 years as a diesel engineer at Robert Bosch Corporation and taught full-time at Colorado Mountain College in Aspen for 32 years. Buesch first came to Aspen in 1949, when his father built a house at First and Bleeker. He has attended almost all the concerts at the Aspen Music Festival every summer.
These exclusive Concert Previews are free to attend with a ticket purchase to Kreutzer at Thunder River Theatre Company.
Please RSVP to reserve your spot:
Kreutzer Program
Script based on The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy, arranged by MinTze Wu
Beethoven | Sonata for violin and piano No. 9 “Kreutzer”
Rachmaninoff | Prelude in #C
Janáček | String Quartet no.1 “Kreutzer Sonata”
Rachmaninoff | Etudes-Tableaux op. 33 no.4
Shostakovich | Four Preludes
Tchaikovsky | String Quartet No.1 Andante Cantabile
Ljova | T’burg Main Street
Tavener | Wake up……and Die
2025 Production of Kreutzer
Production Team:
MinTze Wu | Artistic Director
Missy Moore | Artistic Director
Mike Monroney | Stage Director
Danielle Taylor | Production Manager
Adelaide Moore | Stage Manager
Taylor Barr | Set Design
Elizabeth Winn | Marketing & Publicity
Ensemble:
Micha Schoepe | Actor
Chih-Long Hu | Piano
MinTze Wu | Violin
Delaney Meyers | Violin
Chieh-Fan Yiu | Viola
Michael Graham | Cello
Max Hanks | Cello
Jacob Danelle | Cello
Janette Adams | Bass
Past Productions:
2019 Production of Kreutzer
Production Team:
MinTze Wu | Artistic Director
John Maloney | Stage Director
Nigel Brown | Sound Design
Jurgen Kolb | Light Design
Siao-Chien Huang | Set Design
Tzu-Chun Chen | Costume Design
Where Lin | Stage Manager
Ensemble:
Sunteck Yao | Actor
Chih-Long Hu | Piano
MinTze Wu | Violin
Kuan-Chang Tu | Violin
Chieh-Yu Lin | Viola
Michael Graham | Cello
Yi-Chung Chang | Cello
Ting-Ing Lin | Cello
Yu-Chieh Lin | Cello
HiCello Ensemble