Sarah Maria Sun in Munich & Antwerp

On 12 December 2024 the soprano Sarah Maria Sun will sing the Munich premiere of Enno Poppe‘s Augen as well as the world premiere of Alban Berg‘s Lulu Suite - Drei Bruchstücke in a transcription/new version selected and arranged for soprano and chamber orchestra by Eberhard Kloke at the Prinzregententheater in Munich. Bas Wiegers will lead the Münchener Kammerorchester as well as the further works H. I. F. Biber’s Serenade Der Nachtwächter and Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz. Harald Hieronymus Hein and Andreas Mangold are the other soloists of this evening.

On 20/21 December 2024 Sarah Maria Sun will slip into the role of Lady Dianna in Jannik Giger’s & Leo Hofmann’s Queen of Hearts at the Theaterstudio at De Singel in Antwerp. Silvester von Hösslin will be her stage partner, Benjamin van Bebber created the staging and video and Lea Burkhalter designed the set and the costumes.

In January, further concerts with the Münchener Kammerorchester and Jörg Widmann will be presented: She will sing Widmann’s Versuch über die Fuge on 22 January 2025 at the Konzerthaus Ravensburg and on 23 January 2025 at the Himmelfahrtskirche Munich-Sendling. Additional works by J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart and L. v. Beethoven will complete the concert programme. She has sung this piece many times already to great acclaim.

(published on 9 December 2024)

Anna-Lena Elbert: Christmas Oratorio

On 13 December 2024, Anna-Lena Elbert will kick-off the tour presenting J. S. Bach‘s Christmas Oratorio together with the Chamber Orchestra Basel and the Windsbach Boys’ Choir in St. Gumbertus in Ansbach.

Further concerts will take place on:
16/17 December 2024, Stadtkasino, Basel
18 December 2024, Dijon Opera, Auditorium Robert Poujade
20 December 2024, Friedenskirche, Nuremburg
21 December 2024, Herkulessaal, Residence Munich

The conductor Ludwig Böhme will lead the concert and further soloists will be Tobias Hunger (tenor), Susanne Langner (alto) and Thomas Laske (bass).

(published on 2 December 2024)

Sofia Jernberg: Julia & Romeo in Basel

On 30 November 2024 vocal artist Sofia Jernberg will make her debut at the Theater Basel in the premiere of Julia & Romeo, a dance spectacle by Erna Ómarsdóttir and Halla Ólafsdóttir. This dance production presents music by Sergej Prokofjev and new compositions by Valdimar Jóhannsson. She has a long working relationship with the Islandic choreographers Erna Ómarsdóttir and Halla Ólafsdóttir. The Ballett Basel will be dancing in the set of Chrisander Brun and in the costumes by Hanna Kisch. Further performances with Sofia Jernberg will take place on 7/16/22 December 2024 and 3/5/8/15/21/22 February 2025. Traditional roles are turned upside down and the masters Shakespeare and Prokofiev are challenged. The work splits into a comedy full of light-hearted hilarity and a dark, bloody tragedy. Juliet & Romeo becomes a punk analysis and provocative, humorous bacchanal that uses archaic motifs to play with conventional notions of romantic love. A baroque celebration of the human experience.

(published on 25 November 2024)

Lavinia Dames: Zemlinsky‘s Kreidekreis

On 1 December 2024 the soprano Lavinia Dames will make her debut as Chang-Haitang in the premiere of the new production of Alexander Zemlinsky‘s opera Der Kreidekreis at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein/Opernhaus Dusseldorf. Hendrik Vestmann will lead the Dusseldorf Symphony and David Bösch will direct this opera which received its world premiere in 1933 in Zurich. Der Kreidekreis is a fascinating mixture of fairy tale, social drama and caricature, and the music is just as dazzling, ranging from late Romanticism à la Strauss and Mahler, jazz sounds, Far Eastern gong chimes and cabaret scenes reminiscent of Kurt Weill. Written after the same titled play by Klabund, it focuses on the arbitrariness of the powerful and the everlasting battle between good and bad, poor and rich – themes that still occupy us today. Lavinia Dames will once again convince the audience with her acting and vocal power in this extraordinary main role. Soloists who will share the stage with her will be Sarah Ferede (Yü-Pei), Joachim Goltz (Ma), Matthias Koziorowski (Prince Pao) i.a.. 
Further performances are scheduled to take place on:
7/14/27 December 2024 and 12/15 January 2025.

(published on 20 November 2024)