13.06.2025

NIKOLA HILLEBRAND, JEREMY OVENDEN & DAVID STEFFENS in Madrid

With Nikola Hillebrand, Jeremy Ovenden and David Steffens, three artists from the Machreich-Roster complete the top-class soloist ensemble of the upcoming ‘Scenes from Goethe's Faust’ by Robert Schumann, which will be performed on 13, 14 and 15 June by the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España under the direction of its chief conductor David Afkham at the end of the orchestra's season. It is a philosophically profound work, rightly regarded as the high point of Schumann's Romanticism, which he wrote in a period between 1844 and 1853 interspersed with longer creative breaks and which, based on Goethe's ‘Faust’, deals with redemption, human longing and the striving for the higher, using the most sublimated tonal language.

Cast

Nikola Hillebrand, soprano
Mari Eriksmoen, soprano
Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano
Maite Beaumont, mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Ovenden, tenor
José Antonio López, baritone
Alastair Miles, bass
David Steffens, bass

David Afkham, conductor
Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España
Francesca Calero, Margarita Rodríguez y Patricia González Arroyo, Xabier Pascual, Diego Blázquez, (choral soloists)