Public master class with participants of the Young Singers Project with Julian Prégardien

Claude Debussy: »Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun«
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G-Major
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes
Maurice Ravel: Suite from Mother Goose

Antonello Manacorda, conductor
Nelson Goerner, piano
The Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus

Christiane Karg, soprano
David Frey, piano

Georg Nigl, baritone
Vladimir Jurowski, piano
Nicholas Ofczarek, recitation

Program:
Excerpts from The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus
Music by Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich, Hanns Eisler, and Pete Seeger
The celebrated Austrian baritone Georg Nigl has transferred the concept of his “Musical Salons” from previous years into The Last Days of Humanity? A special combination of song recital and literary reading, in which selected music and literature enter into a new dialogue and expand one another – for an evening of existential intensity. Together with Burgtheater actor Nicholas Ofczarek and Vladimir Jurowski, General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera, at the piano, Nigl creates a theatrical evening in which songs by Gustav Mahler, Hanns Eisler, and Pete Seeger are interwoven with texts from Karl Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind.

Written between 1915 and 1922, the Austrian writer’s monumental drama is a sharp and unflinching indictment of the horrors of the First World War. In the hands of these three expressive artists, the combination of voice, text, and music becomes a searing accusation against war and a clarifying reflection on humanity in all its tragedy and destructive force.

David Steffens, bass
Michael Lessky, conductor
Junge Philharmonie Wien

Kate Lindsey, The Composer 
Christina Nilsson, The Prima Donna / Ariadne 
Eric Cutler, The Tenor / Bacchus 
Ziyi Dai, Zerbinetta 
Johannes Silberschneider, The Major-Domo 
Christoph Pohl, The Music Master 
Jonas Hacker, The Dancing Master 
Leon Košavić, Harlequin 
Michael Porter, Scaramuccio
Lukas Enoch Lemcke, Truffaldino 
Theodore Browne, Brighella 
Jasmin Delfs, Naiad 
Anja Mittermüller, Dryad
Marlene Metzger, Echo 

Manfred Honeck, Conductor 
Ersan Mondtag, Director / Sets / Costumes 
Henning Streck, Lighting 
Luis August Krawen, Video
Till Briegleb, Dramaturgy

A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in artistic mentorship at the highest level.
Leading international masters of classical music pass on their knowledge, high standards, and vision to the young artists at the academy.

Nikola Hillebrand, soprano
Patricia Nolz, mezzosoprano
Mauro Peter, tenor
David Steffens, bass
Malcolm Martineau, piano

Lieder, duets and quartets by Franz Schubert

Participants of the Young Singers Project 
Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg 
Leo Hussain, Conductor 

Kate Lindsey, The Composer 
Christina Nilsson, The Prima Donna / Ariadne 
Eric Cutler, The Tenor / Bacchus 
Ziyi Dai, Zerbinetta 
Johannes Silberschneider, The Major-Domo 
Christoph Pohl, The Music Master 
Jonas Hacker, The Dancing Master 
Leon Košavić, Harlequin 
Michael Porter, Scaramuccio
Lukas Enoch Lemcke, Truffaldino 
Theodore Browne, Brighella 
Jasmin Delfs, Naiad 
Anja Mittermüller, Dryad
Marlene Metzger, Echo 

Manfred Honeck, Conductor 
Ersan Mondtag, Director / Sets / Costumes 
Henning Streck, Lighting 
Luis August Krawen, Video
Till Briegleb, Dramaturgy