Arrangement from Thursday 3 to Monday 7 April 2025,
4 nights
Récital Diana Damrau & Jonas Kaufmann, the 4
Œuvres de G. Mahler et R. Strauss
Piano :
Helmut Deutsch
Helmut Deutsch was born in Vienna in 1945, where he learned piano, composition and musicology at the Vienna Academy from 1967 until 1979. Helmut Deutsch began his career as an accompanist with Irmgard Seefried and collaborated for more than twelve years with Hermann Prey. Helmut Deutsch has performed with the greatest singers including Olaf Bär, Diana Damrau, Annette Dasch, Matthias Goerne, Hans Hotter, his former student Jonas Kaufmann, Anne Sofie von Otter, Andreas Schmidt, Bo Skovhus, Michael Volle and many more .
Helmut Deutsch♪
Musikverein
With the disturbing story of the lust-murdering "Salome," Richard Strauss (1864-1949) achieved his breakthrough as an opera composer in 1905. Based on Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name, Strauss created a one-act musical drama full of avant-garde features with partially suspended tonality, leitmotif technique and an orchestra of over 100 musicians.It is about the beautiful princess Salome, who lives in the palace of her perfidious stepfather Herod. Herod would like to see the young Salome take her place at his side instead of his wife and Salome’s mother, Herodias. Salome, however, evades him and becomes aware of the prophet Jochanaan, who is imprisoned in the court dungeon. In order to be able to speak with him, Salome unceremoniously seduces the captain on guard. But Jochanaan does not return Salome’s fascination. On the contrary, he repudiates her, preferring his dungeon to her presence while proclaiming further prophecies that alarm Herod. To distract her, Herod demands that Salome perform an erotic veil dance. Only when Herod promises Salome everything she desires does she agree. When Salome demands Jochanaan’s head on a silver platter after the dance, Herod is dismayed, but he sees himself bound by his promise. Deeply horrified when Salome thereupon lustfully commits suicide on Jochanaan’s corpse, he orders his soldiers in disgust to kill Salome.
Salome♪ - R. Strauss, the 5
Yoel Gamzou - Cyril Teste
Jennifer Holloway, Stephanie Houtzeel, Jörg Schneider, Tomasz Konieczny
Staatsoper
Iolanta - P. I. Tchaïkovski, the 6, nouvelle production
Tugan Sokhiev - Evgeny Titov
Sonya Yoncheva
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Sonya Yoncheva has been at home on the international opera stages for over ten years. Born in Bulgaria in 1981, the soprano first studied voice and piano in her hometown of Plovdiv before switching to the Geneva Conservatory for her master’s degree.In 2010, Yoncheva won the "Operalia" competition, further awards such as the ECHO Klassik in the category Newcomer of the Year (2015) as well as the Reader’s Prize of "The International Opera Awards" (2019), followed. Her engagements have taken the soprano to all the renowned houses of our time: the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Berlin and Vienna State Operas, and the Opéra de Paris, to name but a few.Her multifaceted repertoire spans works from almost all eras - this demands a great deal of flexibility from the voice, but that is precisely the singer’s main secret, as she revealed in an interview with Oper! magazine. Among others, the soprano shone in the title roles in "Tosca", "Alcina", "L`incoronazione di Poppea", as well as Mimi ("La bohème"), Marguerite ("Faust") or Violetta ("La traviata").In addition to her stage activities, Sonya Yoncheva has released three successful solo albums exclusively on Sony Classical: "Paris, mon amour" (2015), "Händel" (2017) and "The Verdi Album" (2018).
Sonya Yoncheva♪, Monika Bohinec, Maria Nazarova, Daria Sushkova, Ivo Stanchev, Boris Pinkhasovich, Dmytro Popov, Attila Mokus
Staatsoper