Wagner Festival Weeks
Richard Wagner's corpus of artistic work is a welter of sound encircling all senses. Those who grapple with it learn their own limits; those who open up to it expand their own boundaries.
Every year the Deutsche Oper Berlin dedicates a major series of performances to one outstanding composer. Following on from Puccini, Verdi and Strauss it is now the turn of Richard Wagner, the most important German composer to date and something of a stylite at the opera house in Berlin's Charlottenburg district. 18 performances are scheduled covering a total of six works by the maestro and featuring a string of internationally renowned singers that include Waltraud Meier (Ortrud: 29th Jan., 6th, 9th and 13th Feb.), Evelyn Herlitzius (Isolde: 22nd and 28th Nov.), Michaela Kaune (Eva: 5th, 14th and 21st Feb.), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing: 5th, 14th and 21st Feb.), Stephen Gould (Tannhäuser: 10th and 31st Jan., 12th Feb.), Ben Heppner (Lohengrin: 29th Jan., 6th, 9th and 13th Feb.) and Torsten Kerl (Rienzi: 24th and 30th Jan, 7th and 10th Feb.). – The highpoint of the Wagner Festival will be the premiere of RIENZI, directed by Philipp Stölzl on 24th January 2010 - the first performance of this early Wagner work since the opera house opened in 1912.
To this day the body of work left by Richard Wagner (1813-83) remains a challenge for singers and musicians, conductors and directors, critics and audiences. The reason for this can be found in the music itself, which is his way of conveying what we cannot express in words - the language of passion. Few are the composers whose ability to overwhelm their audiences has been so powerful and awe-instilling as Wagner's, rare the artist who has found such vivid and moving vocabulary to portray the physical and intellectual drives within a human being. His stories of redemption and doom are still the subject of heated controversy while remaining, at their core, unsurpassed appeals for lives to be led free of repressive traditions imposed by alien entities.
Two cycles of Wagner's opus magnum, THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG, will be performed, beginning on 17th April 2010.
Every year the Deutsche Oper Berlin dedicates a major series of performances to one outstanding composer. Following on from Puccini, Verdi and Strauss it is now the turn of Richard Wagner, the most important German composer to date and something of a stylite at the opera house in Berlin's Charlottenburg district. 18 performances are scheduled covering a total of six works by the maestro and featuring a string of internationally renowned singers that include Waltraud Meier (Ortrud: 29th Jan., 6th, 9th and 13th Feb.), Evelyn Herlitzius (Isolde: 22nd and 28th Nov.), Michaela Kaune (Eva: 5th, 14th and 21st Feb.), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing: 5th, 14th and 21st Feb.), Stephen Gould (Tannhäuser: 10th and 31st Jan., 12th Feb.), Ben Heppner (Lohengrin: 29th Jan., 6th, 9th and 13th Feb.) and Torsten Kerl (Rienzi: 24th and 30th Jan, 7th and 10th Feb.). – The highpoint of the Wagner Festival will be the premiere of RIENZI, directed by Philipp Stölzl on 24th January 2010 - the first performance of this early Wagner work since the opera house opened in 1912.
To this day the body of work left by Richard Wagner (1813-83) remains a challenge for singers and musicians, conductors and directors, critics and audiences. The reason for this can be found in the music itself, which is his way of conveying what we cannot express in words - the language of passion. Few are the composers whose ability to overwhelm their audiences has been so powerful and awe-instilling as Wagner's, rare the artist who has found such vivid and moving vocabulary to portray the physical and intellectual drives within a human being. His stories of redemption and doom are still the subject of heated controversy while remaining, at their core, unsurpassed appeals for lives to be led free of repressive traditions imposed by alien entities.
Two cycles of Wagner's opus magnum, THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG, will be performed, beginning on 17th April 2010.
Calendar Richard Wagner 2009|2010
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