WAGNER PLUS | REIHE ORIGINALKLANG
NORDSTAD — DRESDNER FESTSPIELORCHESTER — MINKOWSKI
With the Frenchman Marc Minkowski, the Dresdner Festspielorchester welcomes one of the leading conductors of our times, who founded the Early-Music specialist ensemble Les Musiciens du Louvre at the age of nineteen and is considered a pioneer of historically informed performance practice. The first half of the concert juxtaposes Offenbach and Wagner, two composers who were fairly irreconcilable during their lifetimes. Excerpts from Offenbach’s near-forgotten grand romantic opera »Die Rheinnixen« (The Rhine Mermaids) are followed by Wagner’s »Wesendonck-Lieder«, an expression of the composer’s passion for Mathilde Wesendonck. The young Norwegian mezzo-soprano Astrid Nordstad, who has been conquering European opera and concert stages since winning the »Tom Wilhelmsen Opera Prize« in 2022, is an ideal artist to unlock these emotional sound-worlds. The evening closes with Mendelssohn’s famous Third Symphony, which was inspired by a journey to Scotland.
ASTRID NORDSTAD MEZZO-SOPRANO
DRESDNER FESTSPIELORCHESTER
MARC MINKOWSKI CONDUCTOR
Jacques Offenbach Excerpts from the Opera »Die Rheinnixen«
Richard Wagner »Wesendonck-Lieder« WWV 91
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Symphony No. 3 in A minor Op. 56 »Scottish«
PRE-CONCERT TALK
6.30 pm (KULTURPALAST, EVENT SPACE OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY, 1ST FLOOR)
7.30 pm
Kulturpalast (Concert Hall)
Kindly supported by the Society »Friends of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele e. V.«
25 % discount for holders of the Dresden Volunteer Pass (subject to availability)