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JULIAN PRÉGARDIEN takes the Evangelist on tour over Easter
23Mar2024
JULIAN PRÉGARDIEN takes the Evangelist on tour over Easter

Julian Prégardien sings the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion together with the Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe.

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OLIVIA VERMEULEN | "Compassion" with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer
20Mar2024
OLIVIA VERMEULEN | "Compassion" with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer

As in keeping with this time of year, Olivia Vermeulen takes to the stage once more to sing the alto solos in Bach’s St Matthew Passion, a role most notable among audiences for its transcendental aria “Erbarme Dich, mein Gott”, in a series of slightly different concerts with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

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THOMAS QUASTHOFF & Humanity in War
19Mar2024
THOMAS QUASTHOFF & Humanity in War

Thomas Quasthoff and the award-winning Amatis Trio explore a topic that has been an essential part of our history for as long as anyone can remember, and yet could hardly be more topical: war and its consequences for people and humanity.

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JEREMY OVENDEN with Handel's Jephtha in Oslo, Namur and Halle
17Mar2024
JEREMY OVENDEN with Handel's Jephtha in Oslo, Namur and Halle

After recent productions of Mozart's Idomeneo and The Magic Flute, Jeremy Ovenden continues his collaboration with the French baroque ensemble Les Talens Lyriques and sings the title role in Handel's Jephta in a series of concerts in Oslo, Namur and Halle.

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JAN PETRYKA, CHRISTOPH FILLER and MANUEL WALSER in Bach's St John Passion with Jordi Savall
17Mar2024
JAN PETRYKA, CHRISTOPH FILLER and MANUEL WALSER in Bach's St John Passion with Jordi Savall

Jan Petryka, Christoph Filler and Manuel Walser are embarking on a joint European tour with Bach's St John Passion under Jordi Savall and his ensembles Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, stopping in Barcelona, Paris, Antwerp, Geneva, Krakow and Dortmund.

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DAVID STEFFENS in his debut as King Marke at the Opéra de Lille
13Mar2024
DAVID STEFFENS in his debut as King Marke at the Opéra de Lille

With this new production of Tristan und Isolde from l’Opéra de Lorraine, David Steffens makes both his house and role debut at the Opéra de Lille as King Marke, which sees him add yet another important Wagner role to his repertoire, having already garnered attention in the Stuttgart Ring cycle as Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Fafner (Siegfried) and Hunding (Die Walküre).

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The sum of our qualities is our quality!

The name Machreich stands not only for an invitation to active music-making and the economic success resulting from it. The agency’s founder and her colleagues dedicate themselves first and foremost to the unique artistic development of each of their singers. In an atmosphere of mutual trust and personal connection, individual projects can be conceived and inspiring constellations initiated. Intuition and discretion are the highest precepts for the work of a highly qualified team, which engages in its work with heart and mind.

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“Art is not, after all, a pretty add-on – it is the umbilical cord which connects us to the divine; it guarantees our identity as humans.”
(Nikolaus Harnoncourt)

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Thomas Quasthoff, recitation
Lea Hausmann, violin
Samuel Shepherd, cello
Mengjie Han, piano

History often reduces wars to a collection of statistics. It is easy to forget that behind every number, every flag, every battle, there is a person who is someone's child, parent, spouse, or lover. During World War I, pen and paper was often all that many had to keep in touch with their far-flung loved ones.

Based on these field letters, of which an incredible 30 billion were sent on the German side alone, Quasthoff and the Amatis Trio trace the humanity in wartime and the personal struggle of the people behind the statistics.

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Johann Sebastian Bach: St John Passion BWV 245

Jan Petryka, Evangelist
Matthias Winckhler, Jesus
Miriam Feuersinger, Soprano
Raffaele Pe , Countertenor
Christoph Filler, Pilatus

Le Concert des Nations
La Capella Nacional de Catalunya
Jordi Savall, Conductor

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Nikolaus Habjan, actor and puppeteer
Simon Meusburger, stage director

Habjan's solo performance of the life story of Friedrich Zawrel, tortured in Nazi Austria by the "expert" prison doctor who officially met him again in the later Republic and locked him away once more, is ingenious puppetry for a story that no other genre could have handled so coherently. With sparingly dosed film inserts and linguistically and playfully sovereign handling of the angular loudmouth characters, it became grandiose documentary and emotional theatre in mutual embrace, which was awarded the Nestroy Prize.

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Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell

Roberto Frontali, Guillaume Tell
Juan Diego Flórez, Arnold
Maria Nazarova, Jemmy, Tells Sohn
Jean Teitgen, Gesler
Iván Ayon Rivas, Ruodi
Lisette Oropesa, Mathilde
Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Walter Furst
Evgeny Solodovnikov, Melcthal
Carlos Osuna, Rodolphe
Nikita Ivasechko, Leuthold
Monika Bohinec, Hedwige

Bertrand de Billy, Conductor
David Pountney, Director
Richard Hudson, Staging and costume
Robert Bryan, Lighting
Thomas Lang, Choir director
Renato Zanella, Choreography

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Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion BWV 244

Anna-lena Elbert, Soprano
Olivia Vermeulen, Mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Mulroy, Tenor
Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Bass-baritone

Iván Fischer, Conductor
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Cantemus Mixed Choir
Nationaal Kinderkoor

Conductor and composer Iván Fischer has put together a very diverse programme, with compassion at its core. Bach's St Matthew Passion is the basis for a new Passion piece, intended to give compassion and empathy a place in our age. Fischer will conduct the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Cantemus Mixed Choir and other performers.

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Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Cornelius Meister, conductor
Tiago Rodrigues, staging
taken over by Sophie Bricaire
Fernando Ribeiro, stage
José António Tenente, costumes
Rui Monteiro, light
Simon Hatab, dramaturgy
Stephen Schreiber, musical assistance
Nicolas Chesneau, choir director

Daniel Brenna, Tristan
Annemarie Kremer, Isolde
Marie-Adeline Henry, Brangäne
Alexandre Duhamel, Kurwenal
David Steffens, Roi Marke
David Ireland, Melot
Kaëlig Boché, a shepherd, a sailor
Sofia Dias, Vítor Roriz, choreography dance

Chœur de l’Opéra de Lille
Orchestre National de Lille

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