The name Machreich stands not only for an invitation to active music-making and the economic success resulting from it. The agency’s founder and her colleagues dedicate themselves first and foremost to the unique artistic development of each of their singers. In an atmosphere of mutual trust and personal connection, individual projects can be conceived and inspiring constellations initiated. Intuition and discretion are the highest precepts for the work of a highly qualified team, which engages in its work with heart and mind.
(photo credit: Stephan Doleschal)
“Art is not, after all, a pretty add-on – it is the umbilical cord which connects us to the divine; it guarantees our identity as humans.”
(Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
Francis Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
Patricia Petibon, Mère Marie de l'Incarnation
Vannina Santoni, Blanche de La Force
Véronique Gens, Madame Lidoine
Manon Lamaison, Soeur Constance de Saint Denis
Sophie Koch, Madame de Croissy
Sahy Ratia, Le Chevalier de La Force
Alexandre Duhamel, Le Marquis de La Force
Marie Gautrot, Mère Jeanne de l'Enfant Jésus
Ramaya Roy, Soeur Mathilde
Loïc Félix, Le Père confesseur du couvent
Blaise Rantoanina, Le premier commissaire
Yuri Kissin, Le second commissaire / Un officier
Matthieu Lécroart, Le geôlier / Monsieur Javelinot / Thierry
Les Siècles
Choeur Unikanti
Gaël Darchen, Chorus master
Karina Canellakis, conductor
Olivier Py, stage director
Pierre-André Weitz, set & costume design
Bertrand Killy, light
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Mitten wir im Leben sind op. 23/3 (Drei Kirchenmusiken) (1830)
Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem op. 45
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Fürchte dich nicht" BWV 228
Sabine Devieilhe, Sopran
Stéphane Degout, Bariton
Pygmalion - Chor & Orchester
Raphaël Pichon, Dirigent
Hans Pfitzner: Palestrina
Günther Groissböck, Pope Pius IV.
Michael Nagy, Giovanni Morone
Michael Laurenz, Bernardo Novagerio
Wolfgang Bankl, Cardinal Christoph Madruscht
Wolfgang Koch, Carlo Borromeo, Roman Cardinal
Hiroshi Amako, Abdisu, Patriarch of Assyria
Adrian Eröd, Count Luna, Ambassador of the King of Spain
Norbert Ernst, Bishop of Budoja
Michael Gniffke, Theophilus, Bishop of Imola
Michael Spyres, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, Kapellmeister at the Church of St Maria Maggiore in Rome
Kathrin Zukowski, Ighino, his son
Patricia Nolz, Silla, his pupil
Christian Thielemann, conductor
Herbert Wernicke, production
Herbert Wernicke, stage design, costumes and lighting
Christiane Karg, soprano
Gerold Huber, piano
Christmas songs by Engelbert Humperdinck, Peter Cornelius, Jean Sibelius, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Eduard Toldra, Edvard Grieg, Maurice Ravel, Cecile Chaminade, Joseph Marx, Richard Strauss et al.
In this concert, soprano Christiane Karg takes us on a Christmas journey. She experiences the ‘festival of love’ through the eyes of a child and traces the ‘feeling of Christmas’ in different languages and cultures.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (Cantatas 1 - 3)
Marie-Sophie Pollak, Soprano
Marie Henriette Reinhold, Alto
Raphael Höhn, Tenor
Christian Immler, Bass
Kreuzkantor Martin Lehmann, Conductor
Dresdner Kreuzchor
Dresdner Philharmonie
Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem op. 45
Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano
Stéphane Degout, Baritone
Pygmalion - Choir & Orchestra
Raphaël Pichon, Conductor