“People’s eyes light up when they hear my music, but they never want to know me as a person.”

“Reality is always full of disappointment, and that is why art exists.”

“There are two heavy stones inside my body: love and death. Which one weighs more? Play the music — everything will become lighter.”

Franz Schubert lived only 31 years, yet left behind more than 600 compositions. He was a musical genius of Vienna, a man of extraordinary talent but ordinary appearance. He experienced love deeply, yet remained lonely throughout his life. His two forms of eternity were the music that continued to be performed two centuries later, and the love that appeared briefly in his life but was never fully spoken.

In the world of music, Schubert was brilliant. In reality, he was insecure, hesitant, and fragile.

When the performance begins, the moon slowly rises through the darkness. A series of arrangements based on Schubert’s compositions fills the space. The “mute melancholic” Schubert and his artist friends embark on a collective journey into the countryside. Each character carries their own suffering in love, yet each finds a form of salvation through music.

Within this world exist beautiful fantasies, angry resistance, painful self-reflection, and the fragile lightness of floating upon waves. The production creates a poetic landscape where emotion is not explained, but transformed into sound and movement.

The dialogue throughout the play carries a delicate poetic quality.

A girl holding a paper crane says:

“I kept trying again and again, believing that if I continued trying, happiness would eventually arrive. But instead, there were more and more contradictions, until every sentence began to carry pain. And then, I became silent.”

This silence feels deeply connected to Schubert himself. As the night becomes completely dark, he still cannot gather the courage to confess his love. After hearing that the woman he loves is engaged, he closes his eyes forever.

If every person is born with a mission, perhaps Schubert’s mission was to bring the most beautiful music into the world — while never having the chance to experience the simplest forms of love and happiness himself.

Music and the ocean.
Voice and movement.

This is a story about loneliness, but also about eternity.

Because when we arrive in this world, we come alone.
And when we leave, we remain alone.

Yet somewhere between birth and disappearance, there are moments — a melody, a memory, a piece of art — that allow a lonely human life to become eternal.