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Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
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Musikfest Berlin
Emotions and heartache in the land of geometry: Marc Blitzstein’s “Parabola and Circula” is finally being premiered! The probably only Cubist opera in the world was composed in 1929 based on a libretto by George Whitsett and its premiere was to have been given in cooperation with the Bauhaus in Dessau. These plans however never materialised – until the present day! The surviving musical material has been prepared for performance by the musicologist Kai Hinrich Müller, the conductor of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra Karl-Heinz Steffens and the classical music publishing house Boosey & Hawkes, and the opera will celebrate its premiere at the Musikfest Berlin.
Program and cast
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor
Aleksander Nohr, baritone (Parabola)
Mari Eriksmoen, soprano (Circula)
N. N. tenor (Rectangula)
Hanna Husáhr, soprano (Intersecta)
Linard Vrielink, tenor (Prism)
Henning von Schulman, bass (Geodesa)
Hongni Wu, mezzo-soprano (Linea)
Tzimon Barto, piano
Programme
Marc Blitzstein
Parabola and Circula, Opera in one act (Libretto: George Whitsett, Concert Performance Premiere)
Aleksander Nohr baritone, Mari Eriksmoen soprano, N. N. tenor, Hanna Husáhr soprano, Linard Vrielink tenor, Henning von Schulman bass, Hongni Wu mezzo-soprano
Interval
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety” for Piano and Orchestra
Tzimon Barto, piano
Berliner Philharmonie
The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the building is acclaimed for both its acoustics and its architecture.
The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall, an area that for decades suffered from isolation and drabness but that today offers ideal centrality, greenness, and accessibility. Its cross street and postal address is Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor. The neighborhood, often dubbed the Kulturforum, can be reached on foot from the Potsdamer Platz station.
Actually a two-venue facility with connecting lobby, the Philharmonie comprises a Großer Saal of 2,440 seats for orchestral concerts and a chamber-music hall, the Kammermusiksaal, of 1,180 seats. Though conceived together, the smaller venue was added only in the 1980s.
By subway (U-Bahn):
Lines U2 (Bahnhöfe Potsdamer Platz or MendelssohnBartholdy-Park)
By city train (S-Bahn):
Lines S1, S2, S25 (Potsdamer Platz)
By regional train:
Lines RE3, RE4, RE5 (Potsdamer Platz)
By bus directly to the Philharmonie:
Lines 200 (Philharmonie), M48, M85 (Kulturforum or Varian-Fry-Straße),
Further bus lines: M29 (Potsdamer Brücke), M41 (Potsdamer Platz)
By car:
A limited number of parking spaces are available on the Philharmonie property. Please use the parking garages under the Sony Center and under the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden (Entrance at Reichpietschufer).
By bycicle:
A limited number of bycicle stands are available on front and behind the Philharmonie. Additional stands can be found in front of the State Library (Staatsbibliothek) across the street.
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