A native of Austria, Markus Werba is among the finest young baritones of our time, working with leading conductors including Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Jeffrey Tate and William Christie in major operatic roles, notably Papageno in Die Zauberflote, the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Harlequin in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. No stranger to the concert platform, he has performed and recorded Haydn's The Creation with William Christie and has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall and the Vienna Musikverein.
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| 14-Mar-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | The human Requiem of Brahms with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal |
 Carl Dahlhaus called Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem “one of those works in which the 19th century recognized its own identity”. This weighty statement was not only inspired by the great success the work found at its première, but also by the stylistic nature of the music and choice of text. Brahms was always stretching one ear backwards into the domain of the ancients, so to speak, and the other ever forward towards innovation.Read full review... | |
| 4-Aug-2012 Felsenreitschule | A visually brilliant but serious Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival |
 The new Zauberflöte at this summer’s Salzburg Festival is a visually brilliant production with sets tailored to the atmospheric venue of the Felsenreitschule (for people not familiar with Salzburg, this is where the singing contest was held in the film The Sound of Music). The set, by Mathis Neidhardt, consists of four interlocking box-type rooms with façades of doors and arches (imitating the arched walls of the Felsenreitschule), which in various configurations function as the forest, the temple, Pamina’s room, and the place of the trial by fire and water.Read full review... | |
| 9-Nov-2011 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | A supremely thoughtful St. John Passion |
 “...the days of Johann Sebastian Bach, when music was like a rose blooming on a boundless snow-covered plain of silence...” This sentiment of Milan Kundera was stunningly realized by L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal tonight with their solemn performance of J. S. Bach’s Passion According to St. John. In the presence of such serene music all worldly concern dissolved, and the OSM was able to deliver a performance which was spiritual enough for a great cathedral.Read full review... | |
