Composer: ZimmermannFrom today| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:00pm |
 Opernhaus, ZürichLeonce and Lena |
|
 | ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:00pm Leonce and Lena Leonce und Lena Music by Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899) / Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918-1970) / Donner, Martin / Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Choreography by Christian Spuck BALLET by CHRISTIAN SPUCK
After the comedy by Georg Büchner
Music by Johann Strauss, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Amilcare Ponchielli,
Alfred Schnittke and Martin Donner
Swiss première
Christian Spuck has long been fascinated by the works of the German playwright Georg Büchner, whose work stands between German Romanticism and the emerging Modern Age. Taking a coolly analytical view, the author performed autopsies of the human soul, as it were, and as the poet Durs Grünbein put it, “registered the fissures that pass through the individual at an early stage, and certainly not coldly.” From 1836, Georg Büchner lectured in medicine in Zurich, and died here at the age of only 23. Christian Spuck created the full-length narrative ballet Leonce and Lena for the Aalto Ballet Essen in 2008. Zurich Ballet will now perform the piece for the first time in Switzerland – only a few weeks before Büchner’s 200th birthday.
The royal children Leonce and Lena have been betrothed without knowing one another. Both decide to escape the wedding. Leonce, who is tormented by boredom, intends to go to Italy with his companion Valerio and live there in indolence; Lena is persuaded to escape by her governess. The two encounter one another en route – and fall in love. Ignorant of one another’s identity, they appear masked at the court of Leonce’s father and are married.
Christian Spuck transforms Büchner’s subtly sarcastic comedy into a high-spirited, fast-paced and imaginative farce of automata, at the same time providing the danced caricature of the small German state. The airy, at times grotesque pieces of the king of waltz, Johann Strauss, inspire the tragicomic story and underline its burlesque elements, as do the modern sounds of Alfred Schnittke and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. | ||
| Saturday 8-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Leonce and Lena |
|
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Saturday 8-Jun-13 07:00pm Leonce and Lena Leonce und Lena Music by Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899) / Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918-1970) / Donner, Martin / Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Choreography by Christian Spuck BALLET by CHRISTIAN SPUCK
After the comedy by Georg Büchner
Music by Johann Strauss, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Amilcare Ponchielli,
Alfred Schnittke and Martin Donner
Swiss première
Christian Spuck has long been fascinated by the works of the German playwright Georg Büchner, whose work stands between German Romanticism and the emerging Modern Age. Taking a coolly analytical view, the author performed autopsies of the human soul, as it were, and as the poet Durs Grünbein put it, “registered the fissures that pass through the individual at an early stage, and certainly not coldly.” From 1836, Georg Büchner lectured in medicine in Zurich, and died here at the age of only 23. Christian Spuck created the full-length narrative ballet Leonce and Lena for the Aalto Ballet Essen in 2008. Zurich Ballet will now perform the piece for the first time in Switzerland – only a few weeks before Büchner’s 200th birthday.
The royal children Leonce and Lena have been betrothed without knowing one another. Both decide to escape the wedding. Leonce, who is tormented by boredom, intends to go to Italy with his companion Valerio and live there in indolence; Lena is persuaded to escape by her governess. The two encounter one another en route – and fall in love. Ignorant of one another’s identity, they appear masked at the court of Leonce’s father and are married.
Christian Spuck transforms Büchner’s subtly sarcastic comedy into a high-spirited, fast-paced and imaginative farce of automata, at the same time providing the danced caricature of the small German state. The airy, at times grotesque pieces of the king of waltz, Johann Strauss, inspire the tragicomic story and underline its burlesque elements, as do the modern sounds of Alfred Schnittke and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. | ||
| Thursday 13-Jun-13 08:15pm |
Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam Memento Mori Holland Festival |
 |
 | ||
| Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Thursday 13-Jun-13 08:15pm Memento Mori Heinz Holliger remembers the dead.
‘Remember that we will all die’, is the motto for this programme by and with Heinz Holliger. Ten years after his last appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Swiss hobo player, composer and conductor returns with a programme centred
on death. The orchestra will play three of Holliger’s own works: two adaptations of ominous, late piano works by Liszt and the Dutch premiere of Ardeur noire, his homage to Debussy. Holliger sandwiches his own works between two contrasting paradigms of expressionism. Berg’s Violin Concerto was dedicated to Manon Gropius, who died at a young age, and constitutes Berg’s last finished composition. Finally, the Dutch premiere of Alagoana is performed, a ballet suite by Zimmermann based on an Indian myth of life and death.Tickets €40.50 - 22.50, SJP €36.20 - 30. Running time 2 hours including one interval.Image credit: Ronald Knapp | ||
| Friday 14-Jun-13 08:15pm |
Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam Memento Mori Holland Festival |
|
| ||
| Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Friday 14-Jun-13 08:15pm Memento Mori Heinz Holliger remembers the dead.
‘Remember that we will all die’, is the motto for this programme by and with Heinz Holliger. Ten years after his last appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Swiss hobo player, composer and conductor returns with a programme centred
on death. The orchestra will play three of Holliger’s own works: two adaptations of ominous, late piano works by Liszt and the Dutch premiere of Ardeur noire, his homage to Debussy. Holliger sandwiches his own works between two contrasting paradigms of expressionism. Berg’s Violin Concerto was dedicated to Manon Gropius, who died at a young age, and constitutes Berg’s last finished composition. Finally, the Dutch premiere of Alagoana is performed, a ballet suite by Zimmermann based on an Indian myth of life and death.Tickets €40.50 - 22.50, SJP €36.20 - 30. Running time 2 hours including one interval.Image credit: Ronald Knapp | ||
| Sunday 16-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Leonce and Lena |
|
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Sunday 16-Jun-13 07:30pm Leonce and Lena Leonce und Lena Music by Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899) / Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918-1970) / Donner, Martin / Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Choreography by Christian Spuck BALLET by CHRISTIAN SPUCK
After the comedy by Georg Büchner
Music by Johann Strauss, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Amilcare Ponchielli,
Alfred Schnittke and Martin Donner
Swiss première
Christian Spuck has long been fascinated by the works of the German playwright Georg Büchner, whose work stands between German Romanticism and the emerging Modern Age. Taking a coolly analytical view, the author performed autopsies of the human soul, as it were, and as the poet Durs Grünbein put it, “registered the fissures that pass through the individual at an early stage, and certainly not coldly.” From 1836, Georg Büchner lectured in medicine in Zurich, and died here at the age of only 23. Christian Spuck created the full-length narrative ballet Leonce and Lena for the Aalto Ballet Essen in 2008. Zurich Ballet will now perform the piece for the first time in Switzerland – only a few weeks before Büchner’s 200th birthday.
The royal children Leonce and Lena have been betrothed without knowing one another. Both decide to escape the wedding. Leonce, who is tormented by boredom, intends to go to Italy with his companion Valerio and live there in indolence; Lena is persuaded to escape by her governess. The two encounter one another en route – and fall in love. Ignorant of one another’s identity, they appear masked at the court of Leonce’s father and are married.
Christian Spuck transforms Büchner’s subtly sarcastic comedy into a high-spirited, fast-paced and imaginative farce of automata, at the same time providing the danced caricature of the small German state. The airy, at times grotesque pieces of the king of waltz, Johann Strauss, inspire the tragicomic story and underline its burlesque elements, as do the modern sounds of Alfred Schnittke and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. | ||
| Saturday 22-Jun-13 11:00am |
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Piano Century: The Year 1913 Aldeburgh Festival |
|
 | ||
| Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom Saturday 22-Jun-13 11:00am Piano Century: The Year 1913 Two of the pivotal moments in musical history, from exactly a hundred years ago, thrill in radical and revealing couplings. A mysterious alchemy occurs when orchestral scores are heard played on two pianos. Rhythms become tauter, highly sprung, harmonies crystallise, tiny details of the music’s inner workings emerge with new clarity and focus. Debussy and Stravinsky are heard afresh in piano arrangements by the composers. Zimmerman’s work (itself an arrangement of an orchestral score) teases us with fragments from Beethoven and Bach to Boogie-Woogie and quotes directly from Jeux, with which it shares a fluidity, quicksilver changes of direction and almost improvisatory air. The controlled venom, intricate organisation and relentless impetus of Stravinsky’s infamous Rite fi nd a parallel in Boulez’s innovative Structures – precisely and minutely organised but with a momentum, percussive power and glittering brilliance that makes an explosive, visceral impact. There will be a 30-minute interval. | ||
| Wednesday 26-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Leonce and Lena |
|
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Wednesday 26-Jun-13 07:00pm Leonce and Lena Leonce und Lena Music by Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899) / Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918-1970) / Donner, Martin / Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Choreography by Christian Spuck BALLET by CHRISTIAN SPUCK
After the comedy by Georg Büchner
Music by Johann Strauss, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Amilcare Ponchielli,
Alfred Schnittke and Martin Donner
Swiss première
Christian Spuck has long been fascinated by the works of the German playwright Georg Büchner, whose work stands between German Romanticism and the emerging Modern Age. Taking a coolly analytical view, the author performed autopsies of the human soul, as it were, and as the poet Durs Grünbein put it, “registered the fissures that pass through the individual at an early stage, and certainly not coldly.” From 1836, Georg Büchner lectured in medicine in Zurich, and died here at the age of only 23. Christian Spuck created the full-length narrative ballet Leonce and Lena for the Aalto Ballet Essen in 2008. Zurich Ballet will now perform the piece for the first time in Switzerland – only a few weeks before Büchner’s 200th birthday.
The royal children Leonce and Lena have been betrothed without knowing one another. Both decide to escape the wedding. Leonce, who is tormented by boredom, intends to go to Italy with his companion Valerio and live there in indolence; Lena is persuaded to escape by her governess. The two encounter one another en route – and fall in love. Ignorant of one another’s identity, they appear masked at the court of Leonce’s father and are married.
Christian Spuck transforms Büchner’s subtly sarcastic comedy into a high-spirited, fast-paced and imaginative farce of automata, at the same time providing the danced caricature of the small German state. The airy, at times grotesque pieces of the king of waltz, Johann Strauss, inspire the tragicomic story and underline its burlesque elements, as do the modern sounds of Alfred Schnittke and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. | ||
| Sunday 22-Sep-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Die Soldaten - Première |
Zurich Opera Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel |
 | ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Sunday 22-Sep-13 07:00pm Die Soldaten - Première With German and English surtitles. Running time 2 hours. Tickets 270 - 38 CHF.Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel | ||
| Thursday 26-Sep-13 08:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Die Soldaten |
Zurich Opera Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel |
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Thursday 26-Sep-13 08:00pm With German and English surtitles. Running time 2 hours. Tickets 230 - 35 CHF.Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel | ||
| Friday 27-Sep-13 08:00pm |
Cité de la Musique, Concert Hall (Salle des Concerts), Paris Ensemble intercontemporain - Matthias Pintscher |
Bach J.S., The Musical Offering, BWV1079: Ricercar a 6 (arr. Webern) |
 | ||
| Cité de la Musique, Concert Hall (Salle des Concerts), Paris, 221, avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France Friday 27-Sep-13 08:00pm Ensemble intercontemporain - Matthias Pintscher Pintscher, Matthias, Bereshit (commissioned by Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble intercontemporain) | ||
| Friday 4-Oct-13 08:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Die Soldaten |
Zurich Opera Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel |
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Friday 4-Oct-13 08:00pm With German and English surtitles. Running time 2 hours. Tickets 230 - 35 CHF.Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel | ||
| Tuesday 8-Oct-13 08:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Die Soldaten |
Zurich Opera Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel |
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Tuesday 8-Oct-13 08:00pm With German and English surtitles. Running time 2 hours. Tickets 230 - 35 CHF.Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel | ||
| Wednesday 9-Oct-13 08:00pm |
Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin Berliner Philharmoniker |
|
| More info... | ||
| Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin, D10785 Berlin, Germany Wednesday 9-Oct-13 08:00pm Berliner Philharmoniker | ||
| Thursday 10-Oct-13 08:00pm |
Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin Berliner Philharmoniker |
|
| More info... | ||
| Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin, D10785 Berlin, Germany Thursday 10-Oct-13 08:00pm Berliner Philharmoniker | ||
| Friday 11-Oct-13 08:00pm |
Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin Berliner Philharmoniker |
|
 | ||
| Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin, D10785 Berlin, Germany Friday 11-Oct-13 08:00pm Berliner Philharmoniker | ||
| Tuesday 15-Oct-13 08:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Die Soldaten |
Zurich Opera Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel |
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Tuesday 15-Oct-13 08:00pm With German and English surtitles. Running time 2 hours. Tickets 230 - 35 CHF.Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel | ||
| Saturday 19-Oct-13 08:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Die Soldaten |
Zurich Opera Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel |
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Saturday 19-Oct-13 08:00pm With German and English surtitles. Running time 2 hours. Tickets 230 - 35 CHF.Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel | ||
| Saturday 26-Oct-13 08:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Die Soldaten |
Zurich Opera Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel |
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Saturday 26-Oct-13 08:00pm With German and English surtitles. Running time 2 hours. Tickets 230 - 35 CHF.Marc Albrecht, Conductor Calixto Bieito, Director Philharmonia Zürich Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Wesener Susanne Elmark, Soprano: Marie Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Cornelia Kallisch, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Kraus, Baritone: Stolzius Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Reinhard Mayr, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Peter Hoare, Tenor: Desportes Michael Laurenz, Tenor: Pirzel | ||
| Friday 15-Nov-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Leonce and Lena |
Ballett Zürich |
 | ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Friday 15-Nov-13 07:00pm Leonce and Lena Leonce und Lena Music by Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899) / Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918-1970) / Donner, Martin / Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Choreography by Christian Spuck Running time 1 hour 50 mins. Tickets 169 - 20CHF.
Christian Spuck has long been fascinated by the works of the German playwright Georg Büchner, whose work stands between German Romanticism and the emerging Modern Age. Taking a coolly analytical view, the author performed autopsies of the human soul, as it were, and as the poet Durs Grünbein put it, “registered the fissures that pass through the individual at an early stage, and certainly not coldly.” From 1836, Georg Büchner lectured in medicine in Zurich, and died here at the age of only 23. Christian Spuck created the full-length narrative ballet Leonce and Lena for the Aalto Ballet Essen in 2008.
The royal children Leonce and Lena have been betrothed without knowing one another. Both decide to escape the wedding. Leonce, who is tormented by boredom, intends to go to Italy with his companion Valerio and live there in indolence; Lena is persuaded to escape by her governess. The two encounter one another en route – and fall in love. Ignorant of one another’s identity, they appear masked at the court of Leonce’s father and are married.
Christian Spuck transforms Büchner’s subtly sarcastic comedy into a high-spirited, fast-paced and imaginative farce of automata, at the same time providing the danced caricature of the small German state. The airy, at times grotesque pieces of the king of waltz, Johann Strauss, inspire the tragicomic story and underline its burlesque elements, as do the modern sounds of Alfred Schnittke and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. | ||
| Sunday 17-Nov-13 02:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Leonce and Lena |
Ballett Zürich |
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Sunday 17-Nov-13 02:00pm Leonce and Lena Leonce und Lena Music by Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899) / Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918-1970) / Donner, Martin / Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Choreography by Christian Spuck Running time 1 hour 50 mins. Tickets 169 - 20CHF.
Christian Spuck has long been fascinated by the works of the German playwright Georg Büchner, whose work stands between German Romanticism and the emerging Modern Age. Taking a coolly analytical view, the author performed autopsies of the human soul, as it were, and as the poet Durs Grünbein put it, “registered the fissures that pass through the individual at an early stage, and certainly not coldly.” From 1836, Georg Büchner lectured in medicine in Zurich, and died here at the age of only 23. Christian Spuck created the full-length narrative ballet Leonce and Lena for the Aalto Ballet Essen in 2008.
The royal children Leonce and Lena have been betrothed without knowing one another. Both decide to escape the wedding. Leonce, who is tormented by boredom, intends to go to Italy with his companion Valerio and live there in indolence; Lena is persuaded to escape by her governess. The two encounter one another en route – and fall in love. Ignorant of one another’s identity, they appear masked at the court of Leonce’s father and are married.
Christian Spuck transforms Büchner’s subtly sarcastic comedy into a high-spirited, fast-paced and imaginative farce of automata, at the same time providing the danced caricature of the small German state. The airy, at times grotesque pieces of the king of waltz, Johann Strauss, inspire the tragicomic story and underline its burlesque elements, as do the modern sounds of Alfred Schnittke and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. | ||
| Thursday 21-Nov-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Leonce and Lena |
Ballett Zürich |
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Thursday 21-Nov-13 07:00pm Leonce and Lena Leonce und Lena Music by Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899) / Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918-1970) / Donner, Martin / Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Choreography by Christian Spuck Running time 1 hour 50 mins. Tickets 169 - 20CHF.
Christian Spuck has long been fascinated by the works of the German playwright Georg Büchner, whose work stands between German Romanticism and the emerging Modern Age. Taking a coolly analytical view, the author performed autopsies of the human soul, as it were, and as the poet Durs Grünbein put it, “registered the fissures that pass through the individual at an early stage, and certainly not coldly.” From 1836, Georg Büchner lectured in medicine in Zurich, and died here at the age of only 23. Christian Spuck created the full-length narrative ballet Leonce and Lena for the Aalto Ballet Essen in 2008.
The royal children Leonce and Lena have been betrothed without knowing one another. Both decide to escape the wedding. Leonce, who is tormented by boredom, intends to go to Italy with his companion Valerio and live there in indolence; Lena is persuaded to escape by her governess. The two encounter one another en route – and fall in love. Ignorant of one another’s identity, they appear masked at the court of Leonce’s father and are married.
Christian Spuck transforms Büchner’s subtly sarcastic comedy into a high-spirited, fast-paced and imaginative farce of automata, at the same time providing the danced caricature of the small German state. The airy, at times grotesque pieces of the king of waltz, Johann Strauss, inspire the tragicomic story and underline its burlesque elements, as do the modern sounds of Alfred Schnittke and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. | ||
| Saturday 30-Nov-13 02:15pm |
Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam Festive Barók dance suite and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique |
|
 | ||
| Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Saturday 30-Nov-13 02:15pm Festive Barók dance suite and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Image credit: Alina Ibragimova © Sussie Ahlburg | ||
| Friday 17-Jan-14 08:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Leonce and Lena |
Ballett Zürich |
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Friday 17-Jan-14 08:00pm Leonce and Lena Leonce und Lena Music by Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899) / Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918-1970) / Donner, Martin / Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Choreography by Christian Spuck Running time 1 hour 50 mins. Tickets 169 - 20CHF.
Christian Spuck has long been fascinated by the works of the German playwright Georg Büchner, whose work stands between German Romanticism and the emerging Modern Age. Taking a coolly analytical view, the author performed autopsies of the human soul, as it were, and as the poet Durs Grünbein put it, “registered the fissures that pass through the individual at an early stage, and certainly not coldly.” From 1836, Georg Büchner lectured in medicine in Zurich, and died here at the age of only 23. Christian Spuck created the full-length narrative ballet Leonce and Lena for the Aalto Ballet Essen in 2008.
The royal children Leonce and Lena have been betrothed without knowing one another. Both decide to escape the wedding. Leonce, who is tormented by boredom, intends to go to Italy with his companion Valerio and live there in indolence; Lena is persuaded to escape by her governess. The two encounter one another en route – and fall in love. Ignorant of one another’s identity, they appear masked at the court of Leonce’s father and are married.
Christian Spuck transforms Büchner’s subtly sarcastic comedy into a high-spirited, fast-paced and imaginative farce of automata, at the same time providing the danced caricature of the small German state. The airy, at times grotesque pieces of the king of waltz, Johann Strauss, inspire the tragicomic story and underline its burlesque elements, as do the modern sounds of Alfred Schnittke and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. | ||
| Sunday 19-Jan-14 08:15pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Leonce and Lena |
Ballett Zürich |
| ||
| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Sunday 19-Jan-14 08:15pm Leonce and Lena Leonce und Lena Music by Strauss II, Johann (1825-1899) / Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918-1970) / Donner, Martin / Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998) Choreography by Christian Spuck Running time 1 hour 50 mins. Tickets 169 - 20CHF.
Christian Spuck has long been fascinated by the works of the German playwright Georg Büchner, whose work stands between German Romanticism and the emerging Modern Age. Taking a coolly analytical view, the author performed autopsies of the human soul, as it were, and as the poet Durs Grünbein put it, “registered the fissures that pass through the individual at an early stage, and certainly not coldly.” From 1836, Georg Büchner lectured in medicine in Zurich, and died here at the age of only 23. Christian Spuck created the full-length narrative ballet Leonce and Lena for the Aalto Ballet Essen in 2008.
The royal children Leonce and Lena have been betrothed without knowing one another. Both decide to escape the wedding. Leonce, who is tormented by boredom, intends to go to Italy with his companion Valerio and live there in indolence; Lena is persuaded to escape by her governess. The two encounter one another en route – and fall in love. Ignorant of one another’s identity, they appear masked at the court of Leonce’s father and are married.
Christian Spuck transforms Büchner’s subtly sarcastic comedy into a high-spirited, fast-paced and imaginative farce of automata, at the same time providing the danced caricature of the small German state. The airy, at times grotesque pieces of the king of waltz, Johann Strauss, inspire the tragicomic story and underline its burlesque elements, as do the modern sounds of Alfred Schnittke and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. | ||
| Saturday 8-Feb-14 08:00pm |
Cité de la Musique, Concert Hall (Salle des Concerts), Paris Turbulences - Week end ensemble intercontemporain - Matthias Pintscher - Nouvelle(s) direction(s) |
Kagel, Die Stücke der Windrose (Western, Osten) Vitoria, New work, commissioned by the State |
| ||
| Cité de la Musique, Concert Hall (Salle des Concerts), Paris, 221, avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France Saturday 8-Feb-14 08:00pm Turbulences - Week end ensemble intercontemporain - Matthias Pintscher - Nouvelle(s) direction(s) Kagel, Mauricio (1931-2008), Die Stücke der Windrose (Western, Osten) Vitoria, Marc Garcia (b. 1985), New work, commissioned by the State | ||
| Wednesday 16-Apr-14 07:30pm |
Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall, London LPO: Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven |
|
 | ||
| Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall, London, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, United Kingdom Wednesday 16-Apr-14 07:30pm LPO: Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven | ||
| Sunday 25-May-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Soldaten |
Bavarian State Opera Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Andreas Kriegenburg, Director Harald Thor, Set Designer Barbara Hannigan, Soprano: Marie Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Nagy, Baritone: Stolzius Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Wesener |
.jpg) | ||
| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 25-May-14 07:00pm "Yesterday, today and tomorrow" is how Bernd Alois Zimmermann defined the period of activity of his opera, first performed in Cologne in 1965, based on the drama by the 'Sturm und Drang' poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Even Lenz was way ahead of the theatrical aesthetics of his time and proposed, in his theoretical essays, the dissolution of the unity of time, place and action. Zimmermann created a multimedia musical theatre in which, through the juxtaposition and interplay of a huge orchestra, stage music, jazz combo, electronics, tape deck and loudspeakers and using the media of film projection and simultaneous stages, levels of action overlap and individual fates are reflected in a broader panorama of destruction, violation, suicide and murder.
The bourgeois girl Marie Wesener moves from admirer to admirer, all from the ranks of the officers and soldiers until she gains a reputation for flightiness and becomes fair game for male lust. She ends as a whore and beggar. Her decline culminates in horrific visions of a brutalisation of mankind that spans centuries, in the apocalyptic picture of an endless spiral of constantly repeated compulsions and acts of violence by mankind against others and itself. In German with German surtitles Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Andreas Kriegenburg, Director Harald Thor, Set Designer Barbara Hannigan, Soprano: Marie Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Nagy, Baritone: Stolzius Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Wesener | ||
| Wednesday 28-May-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Soldaten |
Bavarian State Opera Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Andreas Kriegenburg, Director Harald Thor, Set Designer Barbara Hannigan, Soprano: Marie Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Nagy, Baritone: Stolzius Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Wesener |
| ||
| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Wednesday 28-May-14 07:00pm "Yesterday, today and tomorrow" is how Bernd Alois Zimmermann defined the period of activity of his opera, first performed in Cologne in 1965, based on the drama by the 'Sturm und Drang' poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Even Lenz was way ahead of the theatrical aesthetics of his time and proposed, in his theoretical essays, the dissolution of the unity of time, place and action. Zimmermann created a multimedia musical theatre in which, through the juxtaposition and interplay of a huge orchestra, stage music, jazz combo, electronics, tape deck and loudspeakers and using the media of film projection and simultaneous stages, levels of action overlap and individual fates are reflected in a broader panorama of destruction, violation, suicide and murder.
The bourgeois girl Marie Wesener moves from admirer to admirer, all from the ranks of the officers and soldiers until she gains a reputation for flightiness and becomes fair game for male lust. She ends as a whore and beggar. Her decline culminates in horrific visions of a brutalisation of mankind that spans centuries, in the apocalyptic picture of an endless spiral of constantly repeated compulsions and acts of violence by mankind against others and itself. In German with German surtitles Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Andreas Kriegenburg, Director Harald Thor, Set Designer Barbara Hannigan, Soprano: Marie Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Nagy, Baritone: Stolzius Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Wesener | ||
| Saturday 31-May-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Soldaten |
Bavarian State Opera Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Andreas Kriegenburg, Director Harald Thor, Set Designer Barbara Hannigan, Soprano: Marie Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Nagy, Baritone: Stolzius Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Wesener |
| ||
| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 31-May-14 07:00pm "Yesterday, today and tomorrow" is how Bernd Alois Zimmermann defined the period of activity of his opera, first performed in Cologne in 1965, based on the drama by the 'Sturm und Drang' poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Even Lenz was way ahead of the theatrical aesthetics of his time and proposed, in his theoretical essays, the dissolution of the unity of time, place and action. Zimmermann created a multimedia musical theatre in which, through the juxtaposition and interplay of a huge orchestra, stage music, jazz combo, electronics, tape deck and loudspeakers and using the media of film projection and simultaneous stages, levels of action overlap and individual fates are reflected in a broader panorama of destruction, violation, suicide and murder.
The bourgeois girl Marie Wesener moves from admirer to admirer, all from the ranks of the officers and soldiers until she gains a reputation for flightiness and becomes fair game for male lust. She ends as a whore and beggar. Her decline culminates in horrific visions of a brutalisation of mankind that spans centuries, in the apocalyptic picture of an endless spiral of constantly repeated compulsions and acts of violence by mankind against others and itself. In German with German surtitles Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Andreas Kriegenburg, Director Harald Thor, Set Designer Barbara Hannigan, Soprano: Marie Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Nagy, Baritone: Stolzius Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Wesener | ||
| Wednesday 4-Jun-14 07:30pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Soldaten |
Bavarian State Opera Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Andreas Kriegenburg, Director Harald Thor, Set Designer Barbara Hannigan, Soprano: Marie Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Nagy, Baritone: Stolzius Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Wesener |
| ||
| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Wednesday 4-Jun-14 07:30pm "Yesterday, today and tomorrow" is how Bernd Alois Zimmermann defined the period of activity of his opera, first performed in Cologne in 1965, based on the drama by the 'Sturm und Drang' poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Even Lenz was way ahead of the theatrical aesthetics of his time and proposed, in his theoretical essays, the dissolution of the unity of time, place and action. Zimmermann created a multimedia musical theatre in which, through the juxtaposition and interplay of a huge orchestra, stage music, jazz combo, electronics, tape deck and loudspeakers and using the media of film projection and simultaneous stages, levels of action overlap and individual fates are reflected in a broader panorama of destruction, violation, suicide and murder.
The bourgeois girl Marie Wesener moves from admirer to admirer, all from the ranks of the officers and soldiers until she gains a reputation for flightiness and becomes fair game for male lust. She ends as a whore and beggar. Her decline culminates in horrific visions of a brutalisation of mankind that spans centuries, in the apocalyptic picture of an endless spiral of constantly repeated compulsions and acts of violence by mankind against others and itself. In German with German surtitles Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Andreas Kriegenburg, Director Harald Thor, Set Designer Barbara Hannigan, Soprano: Marie Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Nagy, Baritone: Stolzius Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Wesener | ||
| Friday 6-Jun-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Die Soldaten |
Bavarian State Opera Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Andreas Kriegenburg, Director Harald Thor, Set Designer Barbara Hannigan, Soprano: Marie Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Nagy, Baritone: Stolzius Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Wesener |
| ||
| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 6-Jun-14 07:00pm "Yesterday, today and tomorrow" is how Bernd Alois Zimmermann defined the period of activity of his opera, first performed in Cologne in 1965, based on the drama by the 'Sturm und Drang' poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Even Lenz was way ahead of the theatrical aesthetics of his time and proposed, in his theoretical essays, the dissolution of the unity of time, place and action. Zimmermann created a multimedia musical theatre in which, through the juxtaposition and interplay of a huge orchestra, stage music, jazz combo, electronics, tape deck and loudspeakers and using the media of film projection and simultaneous stages, levels of action overlap and individual fates are reflected in a broader panorama of destruction, violation, suicide and murder.
The bourgeois girl Marie Wesener moves from admirer to admirer, all from the ranks of the officers and soldiers until she gains a reputation for flightiness and becomes fair game for male lust. She ends as a whore and beggar. Her decline culminates in horrific visions of a brutalisation of mankind that spans centuries, in the apocalyptic picture of an endless spiral of constantly repeated compulsions and acts of violence by mankind against others and itself. In German with German surtitles Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Andreas Kriegenburg, Director Harald Thor, Set Designer Barbara Hannigan, Soprano: Marie Okka von der Damerau, Mezzo-soprano: Charlotte Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Stolzius' mother Hanna Schwarz, Mezzo-soprano: Wesener's Mother Michael Nagy, Baritone: Stolzius Tareq Nazmi, Bass: Obrist, Count of Spannheim Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Wesener | ||
