Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major  „Symphony of a Thousand”

Emily Magee, soprano (Magna Peccatrix)
Jacquelyn Wagner, soprano (Una poenitentium)
Ying Fang, soprano (Mater gloriosa)
Lioba Braun, mezzo-soprano (Mulier Samaritana)
Gerhild Romberger, mezzo-soprano (Maria Aegyptiaca)
Benjamin Bruns, tenor (Doctor Marianus)
Adrian Eröd, baritone (Pater ecstaticus)
Georg Zeppenfeld, bass (Pater profundus)

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Gewandhausorchester
MDR-Rundfunkchor
Chor der Oper Leipzig
Thomanerchor Leipzig
GewandhausChor
GewandhausKinderchor

As a singer, Thomas Quasthoff has set international standards. His reading is quieter, but no less ambitious. Thomas Quasthoff, a fan and reader of Hanns Dieter Hüsch's texts since his student days, lives, sings and celebrates texts and songs by the literary cabaret artist who died in 2005. Powers of observation, humour, little naughtiness about tits and quirks of the German citizens are scorned in a mean way.

His partner on the piano is Jochen Kilian, who, after an excellent classical education, has developed into a masterful jumper between the different genres. There is hardly a style of music that Jochen Kilian is not familiar with. Look forward to an extraordinary evening!

Julian Prégardien, tenor
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, cello
Martin Helmchen, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven | Lieder

Gregor A. Mayrhofer | "Einsamkeit, Du stummer Bronnen"
Text: Clemens Brentano (from "Nachklänge Beethovenscher Musik")
commissioned by Kölner Philharmonie (KölnMusik) and the Brentano Academy Aschaffenburg

Ludwig van Beethoven | sonata for violoncello and piano in A-Major op. 69

Franz Schubert | excerpts from Der Schwanengesang D 957

Franz Schubert | »Auf dem Strom« D 943
in a version for voice, cello and piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro KV 492

Kartal Karagedik, IL CONTE DI ALMAVIVA
Eleanor Lyons, LA CONTESSA DI ALMAVIVA
Maeve Höglund, SUSANNA
Božidar Smiljanić, FIGARO
Anna Pennisi, CHERUBINO
Reisha Adams MARCELLINA
Daniel Arnaldos, BASILIO | DON CURZIO
Elisa Soster, BARBARINA

Marie Jacquot, conductor
Tom Goossens, stage director

Francis Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites

Sabine Devieilhe, Blanche
Bernard Richter, Le Chévalier
Michaela Schuster, Madame de Croissy
Nicole Car, Madame Lidoine
Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Mère Marie
Michael Kraus, Le Marquis de la Force
Maria Nazarova, Soeur Constance

Bertrand de Billy, artistic direction
Magdalena Fuchsberger, stage direction
Monika Biegler, stage
Valentin Köhler, costumes
Aron Kitzig, video
Rudolf Fischer & Robert Eisenstein, light

Alban Berg: Lulu

Vera-Lotte Boecker, Lulu
Bo Skovhus, Dr. Schön
Edgaras Montvidas, Alwa
Cameron Becker, Maler
Anne Sofie von Otter, Gräfin Geschwitz
Kurt Rydl, Schigolch
Katrin Wundsam. Garderobiere / Gymnasiast
Martin Summer, Tierbändiger / Athlet
Paul Kaufmann, Prinz / Kammerdiener

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

Maxime Pascal, conductor
Marlene Monteiro Freitas, stage director

Florian Boesch, bass baritone
Nikolaus Habjan, staging | puppeteer | art whistler
Musicbanda Franui

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro KV 492

Kartal Karagedik, IL CONTE DI ALMAVIVA
Eleanor Lyons, LA CONTESSA DI ALMAVIVA
Maeve Höglund, SUSANNA
Božidar Smiljanić, FIGARO
Anna Pennisi, CHERUBINO
Reisha Adams MARCELLINA
Daniel Arnaldos, BASILIO | DON CURZIO
Elisa Soster, BARBARINA

Marie Jacquot, conductor
Tom Goossens, stage director

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String quartet in F major, K 590
Ángela Tröndle: String quartet No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: String quartet in F major, Op. 135

Minetti Quartett
Maria Ehmer, violin
Anna Knopp, violin
Milan Milojicic, viola
Leonhard Roczek, cello

Alban Berg: Lulu

Vera-Lotte Boecker, Lulu
Bo Skovhus, Dr. Schön
Edgaras Montvidas, Alwa
Cameron Becker, Maler
Anne Sofie von Otter, Gräfin Geschwitz
Kurt Rydl, Schigolch
Katrin Wundsam. Garderobiere / Gymnasiast
Martin Summer, Tierbändiger / Athlet
Paul Kaufmann, Prinz / Kammerdiener

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

Maxime Pascal, conductor
Marlene Monteiro Freitas, stage director