Wagner/Mendelssohn/Elgar/Chausson

Aigul Akhmetshina . Marco Armiliato . Tonkünstler-Orchester

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)

Evening Programme Booklet (German)

Großer Saal

Past event

Description

Dive into the depths of music! When the waves of the sea and love meet, the result is a sound experience full of romance and passion. Maestro Marco Armiliato and mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina embark on a moving journey.

Together, Marco Armiliato and Aigul Akhmetshina explore both mirror-smooth and turbulent oceans and the passionately agitated spray of human souls. The shivering romance of Richard Wagner's Dutchman Overture is followed by two great vocal works: Edward Elgar creates lyrical atmospheric images of various poets, while Ernest Chausson tells a love story. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's overture Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Happy Voyage) is just right as a finale: in the composition based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem, a safe harbour is reached after a frightening calm.

Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina has won international acclaim, particularly as ‘Carmen’, and made her debut at the Salzburg Festival, the New York Met and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. Future engagements will take her to the Vienna State Opera and the Zurich Opera House, among others. Maestro Marco Armiliato is one of the most important opera conductors of our time. He is a regular guest on stages around the world, including the Met, the Bavarian State Opera and the Royal Opera House.

PROGRAMME

*Richard Wagner: Overture to the opera The Flying Dutchman
*Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures Five Songs for Alto and Orchestra op. 37
*Ernest Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer for voice and orchestra op. 19
*Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sea Calm and happy voyage Overture op. 27

ORCHESTRA

Aigul Akhmetshina mezzosopran, Marco Armiliato conductor, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich

Supporting programs

Mo 03/11/2025

18.30

Einführung

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