Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio

John Matthew Myers, Florestan
Simon Neal, Don Pizarro
Eleanor Lyons, Leonore
Rosalia Cid, Marzelline
Georg Zeppenfeld, Rocco
Mario Lerchenberger, Jaquino
Vladyslav Buialskyi, Don Fernando
First Prisoner Jörg Reißmann | Torsten Schäpan
Second Prisoner Norbert Klesse | Holger Steinert

Finnegan Downie Dear, conductor
Christine Mielitz, stage director
Peter Heilein, set & costumes
Jan Hoffmann, chorus
Wolfgang Pieschel, dramaturgy

Saxon State Opera Chorus Dresden
Dresden Symphony Chorus – Additional Chorus of the Semperoper Dresden
Saxon State Orchestra Dresden

Georg Nigl, baritone
Nicholas Ofczarek, recitation
Markus Hinterhäuser, piano

For the baritone Georg Nigl, the art song must always grapple with the contradictions and danger zones of our time. Together with Nicholas Ofczarek - an actor at the Burgtheater -  and pianist Markus Hinterhäuser, he embarks on an exploration of the texts of Karl Kraus in The Last Days of Humanity?. Alongside these, he places songs by composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Gustav Mahler, and Hanns Eisler.

The result is an artistic event not easily forgotten: The Last Days of Humanity? is not a concert in the traditional sense, but a passionate, poetic, and deeply moving confrontation with war, hope, and dignity.

PROGRAMME
Karl Kraus // 1874–1936
Excerpts from Die letzten Tage der Menschheit // 1915–22

combined with

Hanns Eisler // 1898–1962
Ballade vom Wasserrad // 1934
Horatios Monolog // 1954
An die Hoffnung // 1942

Gustav Mahler // 1860–1911
Urlicht // 1905
Der Tamboursg’sell // 1901

Hanns Eisler
Spruch 1939 // 1939

Gustav Mahler
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen // 1898

Hanns Eisler
Der Graben // 1959–61

Dmitri Schostakowitsch // 1906–1975
Präludium es-Moll op. 34 Nr. 14 für Klavier solo // 1933

Gustav Mahler
Revelge // 1899

Pete Seeger // 1919–2014
Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind // 1955

Hanns Eisler
Und endlich // 1953

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Andreas Schager, Tristan
Kwangchul Youn, King Marke
Miina-Liisa Värelä, Isolde
Adrian Eröd, Kurwenal
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Brangäne

Alexander Soddy, conductor
Calixto Bieito, stage director
Rebecca Ringst, staging
Ingo Krügler, costume designer
Michael Bauer, lighting designer

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Andreas Schager, Tristan
Kwangchul Youn, King Marke
Miina-Liisa Värelä, Isolde
Adrian Eröd, Kurwenal
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Brangäne

Alexander Soddy, conductor
Calixto Bieito, stage director
Rebecca Ringst, staging
Ingo Krügler, costume designer
Michael Bauer, lighting designer

Patricia Nolz, mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau, piano

Gustav Mahler: Five Lieder based on poems by Friedrich Rückert
as well as Lieder by Richard Strauss and Alexander Zemlinsky

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Andreas Schager, Tristan
Kwangchul Youn, King Marke
Miina-Liisa Värelä, Isolde
Adrian Eröd, Kurwenal
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Brangäne

Alexander Soddy, conductor
Calixto Bieito, stage director
Rebecca Ringst, staging
Ingo Krügler, costume designer
Michael Bauer, lighting designer

"Once upon a time..." fairy tales & ballads

Georg Nigl, baritone
Nicholas Ofczarek, recitation
Olga Pashchenko, piano

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Andreas Schager, Tristan
Kwangchul Youn, König Marke
Miina-Liisa Värelä, Isolde
Adrian Eröd, Kurwenal
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Brangäne
Alexander Soddy, musical direction
Calixto Bieito, Inszenierung
Rebecca Ringst, staging
Ingo Krügler, costumes
Michael Bauer, lightig

Charles Ives: Hymn
Georg Friedrich Händel: Frondi tenere ... Ombra mai fù (Largo des Serse aus »Serse« HWV 40)
Georg Friedrich Händel: Verdi prati »Green pastures« (Arie des Ruggiero aus »Alcina« HWV 34)
Jessie Montgomery: Strum (Bearbeitung für Streichorchester)
Georg Friedrich Händel: Langue offeso (Arie des Sesto aus »Giulio Cesare« HWV 17)
Georg Friedrich Händel: Lascia ch'io pianga (Arie der Almirena aus »Rinaldo« HWV 7b)
Johann Christian Bach: Symphonie g-moll op. 6/6

Wiener KammerOrchester
Anja Mittermüller, mezzo-soprano
Johannes Beranek, moderation & conductor