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| Thursday 4-Jul-13 08:00pm |
 Eberbach Abbey, Eltville am RheinMozart's Great Night Music Rheingau Music Festival |
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| Eberbach Abbey, Eltville am Rhein, Kloster Eberbach, Basilika, 65346 Eltville am Rhein, Germany Thursday 4-Jul-13 08:00pm Mozart's Great Night Music Tickets available from 45€ | ||
| Sunday 21-Jul-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Babylon Munich Opera Festival |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Carlos Padrissa, Director Claron McFadden, Soprano: Seele Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Inanna Rainer Trost, Tenor: Tammu Sir Willard White, Bass-baritone: Priesterkönig Gabriele Schnaut, Soprano: Euphrat Kai Wessel, Countertenor: Skorpionmensch |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 21-Jul-13 07:00pm Oper in sieben Bildern
Die monumentale Großstadt Babylon wird zum Schauplatz eines zivilisatorischen Umbruchs im Moment des Aufeinanderprallens zweier Kulturen: Während die Babylonier noch das Menschenopfer praktizieren, haben die Juden, die hier im Exil festsitzen, es bereits abgeschafft. Die Oper verfolgt diesen Konflikt über die Liebe des Exilanten Tammu zur Babylonierin Inanna, Priesterin im Tempel der freien Liebe. Als die Götter im Weltall Chaos entfesseln, werden auch die Tage auf der Erde wirr, Meteoritenhagel bedrohen die Menschen, der Euphrat verlässt sein Bett, es kommt zur Sintflut. Der Priesterkönig verspricht Ruhe und Ordnung zwischen Himmel und Erde durch ein Menschenopfer, die Babylonier begehen dies in einem rauschhaften Fest. Inanna aber steigt hinab in die Unterwelt, um den geopferten Tammu zurück ins Leben zu holen und sich mit ihm zu vereinigen. Am Ende siegt die Liebe und Versöhnung zwischen dem Himmel und den Menschen löst das alte Opfer ab. Eine vertragliche Übereinkunft begründet eine neue Weltordnung, in der wir uns noch heute befinden: die auf geordnete Wiederkehr beruhende 7-Tage-Woche.
Der Komponist Jörg Widmann trug lange die Idee einer Oper zu Babylon in sich. Seine ursprüngliche Faszination wurde geweckt von dem völlig anderen, für uns kaum beschreibbaren Liebeskonzept im vorantiken Mesopotamien. Die Liebe zwischen Tammu und Inanna geht zurück auf eines der legendärsten mythologischen Liebespaare der Babylonischen Antike, das schon Mozarts Zauberflöten-Dichter Schikaneder inspiriert hat: zwischen dem Helden Tammuzi und Inanna, Göttin der Liebe und des Krieges.
In German with German surtitles.Kent Nagano, Conductor Carlos Padrissa, Director Claron McFadden, Soprano: Seele Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Inanna Rainer Trost, Tenor: Tammu Sir Willard White, Bass-baritone: Priesterkönig Gabriele Schnaut, Soprano: Euphrat Kai Wessel, Countertenor: Skorpionmensch | ||
| Tuesday 13-Aug-13 06:00pm |
Sibelius Museum, Turku Machine Sound Turku Music Festival |
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| Sibelius Museum, Turku, Piispankatu 17, Turku 20500, Finland Tuesday 13-Aug-13 06:00pm Machine Sound The legendary Se Ensemble gets inspired by this year’s Aboagora theme in a concert after the day’s last lecture. The concert features, amongst others, Uljas Pulkkis’ Virtuaalipianokonsertto (Virtual Piano Concerto), performed by Emil Holmström. | ||
| Thursday 5-Sep-13 08:00pm |
Beethovenhalle, Bonn Wealth and Beauty Beethovenfest Bonn |
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| Beethovenhalle, Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany Thursday 5-Sep-13 08:00pm Wealth and Beauty For Kent Nagano, Johannes Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is one of the great classical Masterpiece, a work about which Joseph Joachim wrote to the composer in the following terms: "The gripping character of the whole, the density of invention, the wonderfully intertwined growth of the motifs, even more than the richness and the beauty of single parts, I like very much." It is a stroke of luck that in Bonn Nagano can be heard for the first time conducting the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, an orchestra known here on the Rhine for its furioso performances of Beethoven and sensitive interpretations of Schumann.
Additional Information:
This concert is part of the Residency of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Deutsche Welle Festival Concert. Sponsored by Ernst & Young. Image credit: © B. Ealovega | ||
| Saturday 14-Sep-13 08:00pm |
Kursaal Bad Honnef, Bonn Musico-literary Metamorphosis Beethovenfest Bonn |
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| Kursaal Bad Honnef, Bonn, Hauptstrasse 28, 53604 Bad Honnef Bonn, Germany Saturday 14-Sep-13 08:00pm Musico-literary Metamorphosis “When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.” With these opening words of his short story “Metamorphosis”, Franz Kafka introduces us to the grotesque situation of his protagonist. “Metamorphosis” is also one of the most important compositional techniques in music. In association with Michael Degen as narrator, the Minguet Quartet demonstrate the metamorphoses, transformations and flights from reality that have taken place in music since Beethoven’s day.Image credit: © Steffen Jänicke Works by Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Works by Suk, Josef (1874-1935) Works by Widmann, Jörg (b. 1973) | ||
| Sunday 29-Sep-13 11:00am |
Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Vienna Truls Mørk, Vienna Symphony Orchestra |
Widmann, Bavarian-Babylonian March |
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| Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Vienna, 1030 Vienna, Austria Sunday 29-Sep-13 11:00am Truls Mørk, Vienna Symphony Orchestra Widmann, Jörg (b. 1973), Bavarian-Babylonian March | ||
| Thursday 23-Jan-14 07:00pm |
Cité de la Musique, Amphithéâtre, Paris Quatuor Signum |
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| Cité de la Musique, Amphithéâtre, Paris, 75019 Paris, France Thursday 23-Jan-14 07:00pm Quatuor Signum | ||
| Saturday 25-Jan-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Babylon |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Carlos Padrissa, Director Roland Olbeter, Set Designer Gabriele Schnaut, Soprano: Euphrat Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Inanna Claron McFadden, Soprano: Seele Jussi Myllys, Tenor: Tammu Sir Willard White, Bass-baritone: Priesterkönig August Zirner, Narrator: Ezachiel Kai Wessel, Countertenor: Skorpionmensch |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 25-Jan-14 07:00pm The mighty city of Babylon becomes the setting for a transformation of civilisation at the moment when two cultures collide: Whilst the Babylonians are still practicing human sacrifice, the Jews, who have settled here in exile, have already abolished it. The opera follows this conflict through the love of the exile Tammu for the Babylonian Inanna, a priestess in the Temple of Free Love. When the gods unleash chaos in the universe, life on earth also becomes confused, meteorite storms threaten humankind, the Euphrates leaves its bed, and the Flood comes. The priest-king promises that peace and order will be achieved between heaven and earth through a human sacrifice, and the Babylonians carry this out in a frenzied celebration. But Inanna descends into the underworld to bring the sacrificed Tammu back to life and to be reunited with him. In the end, love wins the day and reconciliation between heaven and humankind replaces the old sacrifice. A contractual agreement forms the basis for a new world order, in which we will live today: the 7-day week, based on an orderly cycle of life.
The composer Jörg Widmann carried the idea of an opera about Babylon in him for a long time. His original fascination was aroused by the completely different concept of love, almost unimaginable for us, in Ancient Mesopotamia. The love between Tammu and Inanna has its origins in one of the most legendary mythological couples of Babylonian Antiquity, who had already inspired Mozart's Magic Flute librettist Schikaneder: that between the hero Tammuzi and Inanna, goddess of love and war. In German with German surtitles Commissioned work by the Bavarian State Opera Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Kent Nagano, Conductor Carlos Padrissa, Director Roland Olbeter, Set Designer Gabriele Schnaut, Soprano: Euphrat Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Inanna Claron McFadden, Soprano: Seele Jussi Myllys, Tenor: Tammu Sir Willard White, Bass-baritone: Priesterkönig August Zirner, Narrator: Ezachiel Kai Wessel, Countertenor: Skorpionmensch | ||
| Monday 27-Jan-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Babylon |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Carlos Padrissa, Director Roland Olbeter, Set Designer Gabriele Schnaut, Soprano: Euphrat Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Inanna Claron McFadden, Soprano: Seele Jussi Myllys, Tenor: Tammu Sir Willard White, Bass-baritone: Priesterkönig August Zirner, Narrator: Ezachiel Kai Wessel, Countertenor: Skorpionmensch |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Monday 27-Jan-14 07:00pm The mighty city of Babylon becomes the setting for a transformation of civilisation at the moment when two cultures collide: Whilst the Babylonians are still practicing human sacrifice, the Jews, who have settled here in exile, have already abolished it. The opera follows this conflict through the love of the exile Tammu for the Babylonian Inanna, a priestess in the Temple of Free Love. When the gods unleash chaos in the universe, life on earth also becomes confused, meteorite storms threaten humankind, the Euphrates leaves its bed, and the Flood comes. The priest-king promises that peace and order will be achieved between heaven and earth through a human sacrifice, and the Babylonians carry this out in a frenzied celebration. But Inanna descends into the underworld to bring the sacrificed Tammu back to life and to be reunited with him. In the end, love wins the day and reconciliation between heaven and humankind replaces the old sacrifice. A contractual agreement forms the basis for a new world order, in which we will live today: the 7-day week, based on an orderly cycle of life.
The composer Jörg Widmann carried the idea of an opera about Babylon in him for a long time. His original fascination was aroused by the completely different concept of love, almost unimaginable for us, in Ancient Mesopotamia. The love between Tammu and Inanna has its origins in one of the most legendary mythological couples of Babylonian Antiquity, who had already inspired Mozart's Magic Flute librettist Schikaneder: that between the hero Tammuzi and Inanna, goddess of love and war. In German with German surtitles Commissioned work by the Bavarian State Opera Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Kent Nagano, Conductor Carlos Padrissa, Director Roland Olbeter, Set Designer Gabriele Schnaut, Soprano: Euphrat Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Inanna Claron McFadden, Soprano: Seele Jussi Myllys, Tenor: Tammu Sir Willard White, Bass-baritone: Priesterkönig August Zirner, Narrator: Ezachiel Kai Wessel, Countertenor: Skorpionmensch | ||
| Friday 31-Jan-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Babylon |
Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano, Conductor Carlos Padrissa, Director Roland Olbeter, Set Designer Gabriele Schnaut, Soprano: Euphrat Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Inanna Claron McFadden, Soprano: Seele Jussi Myllys, Tenor: Tammu Sir Willard White, Bass-baritone: Priesterkönig August Zirner, Narrator: Ezachiel Kai Wessel, Countertenor: Skorpionmensch |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 31-Jan-14 07:00pm The mighty city of Babylon becomes the setting for a transformation of civilisation at the moment when two cultures collide: Whilst the Babylonians are still practicing human sacrifice, the Jews, who have settled here in exile, have already abolished it. The opera follows this conflict through the love of the exile Tammu for the Babylonian Inanna, a priestess in the Temple of Free Love. When the gods unleash chaos in the universe, life on earth also becomes confused, meteorite storms threaten humankind, the Euphrates leaves its bed, and the Flood comes. The priest-king promises that peace and order will be achieved between heaven and earth through a human sacrifice, and the Babylonians carry this out in a frenzied celebration. But Inanna descends into the underworld to bring the sacrificed Tammu back to life and to be reunited with him. In the end, love wins the day and reconciliation between heaven and humankind replaces the old sacrifice. A contractual agreement forms the basis for a new world order, in which we will live today: the 7-day week, based on an orderly cycle of life.
The composer Jörg Widmann carried the idea of an opera about Babylon in him for a long time. His original fascination was aroused by the completely different concept of love, almost unimaginable for us, in Ancient Mesopotamia. The love between Tammu and Inanna has its origins in one of the most legendary mythological couples of Babylonian Antiquity, who had already inspired Mozart's Magic Flute librettist Schikaneder: that between the hero Tammuzi and Inanna, goddess of love and war. In German with German surtitles Commissioned work by the Bavarian State Opera Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Kent Nagano, Conductor Carlos Padrissa, Director Roland Olbeter, Set Designer Gabriele Schnaut, Soprano: Euphrat Anna Prohaska, Soprano: Inanna Claron McFadden, Soprano: Seele Jussi Myllys, Tenor: Tammu Sir Willard White, Bass-baritone: Priesterkönig August Zirner, Narrator: Ezachiel Kai Wessel, Countertenor: Skorpionmensch | ||
| Thursday 5-Jun-14 07:30pm |
Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Vienna Tetzlaff, Meister |
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| Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Vienna, 1030 Vienna, Austria Thursday 5-Jun-14 07:30pm Tetzlaff, Meister Hamlet-Ouverture by Rott: world premier
Violin concert by Widmann: austrian premier
Radio broadcast: Oe1, Fr., 06. 06. 14 at 19.30 Image credit: Georgia Bertazzi | ||
