Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, op. 50

Christiane Karg, Peri
Werner Güra, Narrator
Erika Baikoff, Maiden (soprano)
Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Angel (contralto)
İlker Arcayürek, Youth (tenor)
Konstantin Krimmel, Gazna & the Man (baritone)

Spanish National Orchestra and Choir
David Afkham, conductor

Helena Munktell: “Valborgsmessoeld” (Walpurgis Fire), Symphonic Poem op. 24
Richard Strauss: Macbeth op. 23
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: The First Walpurgis Night

Xenia Puskarz Thomas, mezzo-soprano
Mauro Peter, tenor
Michael Volle, bass

Munich Philharmonic
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Helena Munktell: “Valborgsmessoeld” (Walpurgis Fire), Symphonic Poem op. 24
Richard Strauss: Macbeth op. 23
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: The First Walpurgis Night

Xenia Puskarz Thomas, mezzo-soprano
Mauro Peter, tenor
Michael Volle, bass

Munich Philharmonic
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, op. 50

Christiane Karg, Peri
Werner Güra, Narrator
Erika Baikoff, Maiden (soprano)
Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Angel (contralto)
İlker Arcayürek, Youth (tenor)
Konstantin Krimmel, Gazna & the Man (baritone)

Spanish National Orchestra and Choir
David Afkham, conductor

Thomas Quasthoff Trio
Thomas Quasthoff, vocals and moderation
Wolfgang Meyer, guitar
Shawn Grocott, trombone

Thomas Quasthoff is a living legend. He was one of Germany’s most renowned opera and lieder singers before bringing his extraordinary career to a close in 2012, after receiving three Grammy Awards and seven Echo Awards. Yet the stage never let go of him. Discovering new talents within himself, he has since appeared as a narrator, cabaret artist, presenter, and even actor.

Friends reintroduced him to jazz, a genre he had loved since his earliest youth. The microphone became his instrument. Stars such as Dieter Ilg, Wolfgang Haffner, Nils Landgren, and Bill Evans became his companions in jazz. During his years as a professor of vocal studies in Detmold, he came to know “Shawn & The Wolf”, and a new friendship was born: singer Thomas Quasthoff, trombonist Shawn Grocott, and guitarist Wolfgang Meyer form an unusual ensemble whose jazz arrangements are constantly being reinvented.

To accompany them on this varied and entertaining musical journey promises a truly special and unforgettable evening—among friends, at the TauberPhilharmonie.

Florian Boesch, baritone
Malcolm Martineau, piano

Programme
Johannes Brahms
Four Serious Songs, Op. 121
Sunday, Op. 47, No. 3
Blind Man’s Buff, Op. 58, No. 1
Longing, Op. 14, No. 8
Your Blue Eyes, Op. 59, No. 8
No House, No Home, Op. 94, No. 5
The Mourning Woman, Op. 7, No. 5
Melancholy, Op. 58, No. 5
There Stands a Linden Tree in Yonder Valley, WoO 33, No. 41

Robert Schumann
Poor Peter, Op. 53 (poems by Heinrich Heine)
Song Cycle, Op. 24 (poems by Heinrich Heine)
 

‘An die Ferne Geliebte – From a Distance’ explores the emotional realms of longing, belonging and home – themes that resonate with us all in a world where movement, migration and constant change have become an everyday reality. The musicians on stage each carry with them a personal story of setting out, arriving and redefining what ‘home’ means.

Julian Prégardien, tenor
Yael Kareth, piano
and
Idil Bursa, cello
Andrés Gómez, percussion
Erik Mirzoyan, clarinet/duduk

Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, op. 50

Christiane Karg, Peri
Werner Güra, Narrator
Erika Baikoff, Maiden (soprano)
Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Angel (contralto)
İlker Arcayürek, Youth (tenor)
Konstantin Krimmel, Gazna & the Man (baritone)

Spanish National Orchestra and Choir
David Afkham, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo, KV366

Allan Clayton, Idomeneo
Lea Desandre, Idamante
Johanna Wallroth, Ilia
Elsa Dreisig, Elettra
Laurence Kilsby, Arbace
Bergsvein Toverud, Gran Sacerdote di Nettuno
Morgan-Andrew King, La Voce

Wajdi Mouawad, stage director
Emmanuel Clolus, set design
Emmanuelle Thomas, costume design
Cécile Kretschmar, wigs and makeup
Éric Champoux, lighting
Daphné Mauger, choreography
Charlotte Farcet, dramaturgy
Alessandro Di Stefano, chorus master
Paris Opera Orchestra and Paris Opera Chorus
Antonello Manacorda, conductor

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

Simone Schneider, Feldmarschallin
David Steffens, Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau
Ida Ränzlöv, Octavian
Paweł Konik, Herr von Faninal
Claudia Muschio, Sophie
Catriona Smith, Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin
Torsten Hofmann, Valzacchi
Maria Theresa Ullrich, Annina
Franz Hawlata, Ein Polizeikommissar
Jaewoung Lee, Ein Notar
Liam Forrest, Ein Wirt
Charles Sy, Ein Sänger

Nicholas Carter, conductor
Axel Ranisch, director
Saskia Wunsch, set design
Bettina Werner, costumes
Philipp Contag-Lada, videos
Valentin Däumler, light design
Ingo Gerlach, dramaturgy
Jeremy Bines, chorusmaster
Bernhard Moncado, children's choir

Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Staatsopernchor Stuttgart
Kinderchor der Staatsoper Stuttgart