Conducted by Sir Mark Elder
February 6 (Auditori de Castelló) and 7 (Auditori de Les Arts)
A revival of an acclaimed program last heard in 2008, the playlist includes songs from the concert stage, the movies, Broadway and Berlin’s cabarets, tracing the varied fates of the composers who faced destruction during Hitler’s rise to power. Some began new lives and brilliant careers abroad, others were to meet with darker ends. Featuring works by Kurt Weill, Franz Schreker, Alexander Zemlinsky, Friedrich Hollaender, Kurt Tucholsky, Erich Korngold, Hanns Eisler and many others. With baritone Justin Austin and mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, and pianists Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois.
Manfred Honeck, conductor
MAR 13 FRI 7:30 PM
MAR 14 SAT 7:30 PM
MAR 15 SUN 2:30 PM
THREE MASTERPIECES – TWO CENTURIES – ONE NARRATION
OF WOMEN'S LOVE AND LIFE
Eight songs for voice and piano op. 42 (1840)
Composition: Robert Schumann, Libretto: Adelbert von Chamisso
DUKE BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE
Opera in one act (1918)
Composition: Béla Bartók, Libretto: Béla Baláz's
A FLORENTINE TRAGEDY ÖDIE
Opera in One Act (1917)
Composition: Alexander Zemlinsky, Libretto: Alexander Zemlinsky based on Oscar Wilde's eponymous book
Conducted by Harry Bicket, Kate performs music from Agrippina, Handel’s breakthrough opera, written in 1709 during his stay in Italy, and the sacred cantata Donna, che in ciel, possibly written to mark the sixth anniversary of an earthquake that struck Rome in 1703.
Dec. 13 (Stadttheater Wiener Neustadt), 14 (Musikverein Vienna), 15 (Festspielhaus St. Pölten), and 16 (Musikverein Vienna)
Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-Soprano
Baptiste Trotignon, Piano
In the “unusually rewarding” (The Guardian) Thousands of Miles, versatile vocalist Kate Lindsey and jazz pianist Baptiste Trotignon perform a multilingual program that “goes far beyond a simple fusion of jazz and classical” (Crescendo). A survey of Weill’s works—both from his European years and after his forceable relocation to the United States—gets a welcome, extra emphasis on its jazz stylings, courtesy of Trotignon’s smart arrangements and improvisations, and Lindsey’s delivery that “has shades of Dietrich herself” (London’s The Times). The concert also features selections by Weill’s fellow émigrés Korngold, Alma Mahler, and Zemlinsky, which have the added benefit of “unleashing Lindsey’s full classical voice, and glorious it is, too” (The Guardian).
Concentus Musicus Vienna
Stefan Gottfried, conductor
Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano
Georg Nigl, baritone
Kate debuts the role of Elisabetta in this new production conducted by Antonello Manacorda and directed by Ulrich Rasche
D’un continent à l’autre, la mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey déploie son programme main dans la main avec le pianiste de jazz Baptiste Trotignon. Pour guide ils ont choisi Kurt Weill, dont on entendra les chansons gouailleuses écrites dans ses périodes allemande, française et américaine.
Under the direction of Jan Lauwers (Needcompany), the mezzo takes on the world premiere in the title role of Lee Miller in the cantata Lee Miller in Hitler’s Bathtub, exploring the riveting life of the eponymous American model and WWII photographer.
With the world première of Il nome della rosa, an opera based on Umberto Eco’s novel commissioned to Francesco Filidei by La Scala and the Paris Opéra, Piermarini’s stage is once again at the centre of the international panorama of contemporary culture. Il nome della rosa, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, is the composer’s third opera after Giordano Bruno and L’inondation.
