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A REUNION WITH SIGNORINA ELETTRA

ANNETT RENNEBERG & KLENKE QUARTETT

Founded in 1991 by four dynamic women at the Music Academy Franz Liszt in Weimar, the Klenke Quartet has never made changes to its lineup. The conclusion that this must be a case of perfect chemistry is absolutely justified. The four string players have retained their »smoldering« sound, which a critic identified early on in their career. Together with Annett Renneberg, who played Signorina Elettra in Donna Leon’s »Commissario Brunetti« adaptations for television, they will take the audience on a colorful journey entitled »And Venice, always Venice«: the actress, who wanted to be an opera singer early in her life, reads texts and poems about what might be Italy’s most famous city. Authors include Henry James, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Rose Ausländer and of course Donna Leon. Apart from the Second String Quartet by the Venetian composer Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen, a protagonist of the early classicistic era, the program includes Hugo Wolf’s light-footed »Italian Serenade« as well as the only string quartet by the great opera composer Giuseppe Verdi.


ANNETT RENNEBERG RECITATION

KLENKE QUARTETT:
ANNEGRET KLENKE
VIOLIN
BEATE HARTMANN VIOLIN
YVONNE UHLEMANN VIOLA
RUTH KALTENHÄUSER CELLO

»And Venice, always Venice«. Musical Reading (in German) featuring texts by Rose Ausländer, Franz Grillparzer, Henry James, Donna Leon, Thomas Mann, Ulrich Tukur et al. as well as music by Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen String Quartet No. 2 in B-flat-major
Giuseppe Verdi String Quartet in E-Minor
Hugo Wolf »Italian Serenade« in G-major (Version for String Quartet)

7 pm
Palais im Großen Garten