CALENDAR

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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Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

Julia Kleiter, field marshall
Christof Fischesser, Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau
Christina Bock, Octavian
Adrian Eröd, Lord of Faninal
Slávka Zámečníková, Sophie
Angel Romero, a singer

Axel Kober, conductor
Otto Schenk, staging
Rudolf Heinrich, stage
Erni Kniepert, costumes

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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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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Arias for Mezzosoprano and Chamber Orchestra

Patricia Nolz, mezzosoprano
Elias Keller, piano
Serge Falck, moderation

Ustina Dubitsky, conductor
Wiener KammerOrchester

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Hans Zender / Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise

Werner Güra, Tenor

Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla Y León
Jordi Francés, Conductor

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