Upcoming Events
august 2020
jan8:00 pmØdipus REC. / World Premiere / The Navidsonswith Ensemble Lemniscate Basel
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How much insight is possible in a world where we are constantly confronted with pictures? Are we blinded by the constant flow of visual information? What if we could only
Event Details
How much insight is possible in a world where we are constantly confronted with pictures? Are we blinded by the constant flow of visual information? What if we could only hear – as Oedipus after his self-blinding?
with:O Michael Taylor (countertenor), Thomas Douglas (actor)
Ensemble Lemniscate Basel – Daniel Moreira
The Navidsons: Ole Hübner (composer) Till Wyler von Ballmoos (stage director), Tassilo Tesche (sets/costumes), Maxine Devaud (production manager).
Time
Month Long Event (january)
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jan8:00 pmØdipus REC. / World Premiere / The Navidsonswith Ensemble Lemniscate Basel
Event Details
How much insight is possible in a world where we are constantly confronted with pictures? Are we blinded by the constant flow of visual information? What if we could only
Event Details
How much insight is possible in a world where we are constantly confronted with pictures? Are we blinded by the constant flow of visual information? What if we could only hear – as Oedipus after his self-blinding?
with:O Michael Taylor (countertenor), Thomas Douglas (actor)
Ensemble Lemniscate Basel – Daniel Moreira
The Navidsons: Ole Hübner (composer) Till Wyler von Ballmoos (stage director), Tassilo Tesche (sets/costumes), Maxine Devaud (production manager).
Time
Month Long Event (january)
Organizer
Past Events
january 2020
jan8:00 pmØdipus REC. / World Premiere / The Navidsonswith Ensemble Lemniscate Basel
Event Details
How much insight is possible in a world where we are constantly confronted with pictures? Are we blinded by the constant flow of visual information? What if we could only
Event Details
How much insight is possible in a world where we are constantly confronted with pictures? Are we blinded by the constant flow of visual information? What if we could only hear – as Oedipus after his self-blinding?
with:O Michael Taylor (countertenor), Thomas Douglas (actor)
Ensemble Lemniscate Basel – Daniel Moreira
The Navidsons: Ole Hübner (composer) Till Wyler von Ballmoos (stage director), Tassilo Tesche (sets/costumes), Maxine Devaud (production manager).
Time
Month Long Event (january)
Organizer
23jan8:30 pmØdipus REC. by The Navidsonswith Ensemble Lemniscate Basel
Event Details
How much insight is possible in a world where we are constantly confronted with pictures? Are we blinded by the constant flow of visual information? What if we could only
Event Details
How much insight is possible in a world where we are constantly confronted with pictures? Are we blinded by the constant flow of visual information? What if we could only hear – as Oedipus after his self-blinding?
Ødipus REC. is a newly composed piece of music theatre that, proceeding from the crucial encounter of Oedipus and Tiresias, re-consults the ancient myth for its current topicality. What happens between Theresias – woman and man at the same time, mother of four children and infallible seer – and Oedipus – just ruler of Thebes, liberator of the city, foundling, but arrogant investigating judge. It is about Oedipus’ guilt, but also about the blind spot of our own sight, about the unsaid and the unheard.
Ödipus Thomas Douglas
Theresias Michael Taylor
Knabe Frederic Schultze
Ensemble Lemniscate
Ellen Fallowfield (Cello), Miguel Angel García Martín (Percussion), Gilles Grimaître (Piano),
Daniel Moreira (Guitar / Musical Direction), Azra Ramic (Clarinet)
New Musiktheater by The Navidsons
(Maxine Devaud, Maria Huber, Ole Hübner, Tassilo Tesche, Till Wyler von Ballmoos)
Lisa Danulat Text
Time
(Thursday) 8:30 pm
Location
Tojo Theater Reitschule Bern
Neubrückstrasse 8
Organizer
february 2020
10feb8:00 pmAcis & Galatea - G.F. Handelwith Le Maschere Galanti
Event Details
Acis and Galatea was Handel’s most popular stage work during his lifetime, and arguably ever since. He made versions in two and three acts and combined it with other works
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Acis and Galatea was Handel’s most popular stage work during his lifetime, and arguably ever since. He made versions in two and three acts and combined it with other works including his own early Italian-language setting of the same myth. The work was later rescored by composers from Mozart to Mendelssohn.
This performance constitutes a rare revival of the very first version of Handel’s ‘little opera’, the one-act “Masque” created very simply at Cannons in the summer of 1718. The courtly masquerade of the 16th and 17th centuries is a direct ancestor of baroque opera in England.
Jack Adler-McKean (Musical Director)
Georgia Tryfona – Galatea
Michael Taylor – Acis
Konrad Furian – Damon
Will Kwiatkowski – Polyphemus
Holden Madagame – Coridon
Time
(Monday) 8:00 pm
Location
Studio Byron Knutson
Ahornstrasse 6
march 2020
20mar7:30 pmBach - St. John Passionwith L'Harmonie des Saisons
Event Details
Experience the St. John Passion with L'Harmonie des saisons and rediscover this magistral work by Johann Sebastian Bach under the musical direction of Eric Milnes. Ticket Prices vary according to date and
Event Details
Experience the St. John Passion with L’Harmonie des saisons and rediscover this magistral work by Johann Sebastian Bach under the musical direction of Eric Milnes.
Ticket Prices vary according to date and seating section:
15 $ to 60 $*
* obtain a 5$ rebate on all tickets purchased before March 18, 2020.
Information : info@harmoniedessaisons.com
Tickets also available at the door.
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm
Location
Église Sainte-Famille
560 Boulevard Marie-Victorin
21mar2:00 pmBach - St. John Passionwith L'Harmonie des Saisons
Event Details
Experience the St. John Passion with L'Harmonie des saisons and rediscover this magistral work by Johann Sebastian Bach under the musical direction of Eric Milnes. Ticket Prices vary according to date and
Event Details
Experience the St. John Passion with L’Harmonie des saisons and rediscover this magistral work by Johann Sebastian Bach under the musical direction of Eric Milnes.
Ticket Prices vary according to date and seating section:
15 $ to 60 $*
* obtain a 5$ rebate on all tickets purchased before March 18, 2020.
Information : info@harmoniedessaisons.com
Tickets also available at the door.
Time
(Saturday) 2:00 pm
Location
Abbaye De St-Benoit-Du-Lac
1 rue Principale
april 2020
10apr3:00 pmPergolesi: Stabat MaterJesus Christus Kirche - Berlin-Dahlem
Event Details
Musik und Wort zur Sterbestunde Jesu Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: "Stabat Mater" Viola Wiemker - Sopran Michael Taylor - Altus Dr. Tanja Pilger-Janßen - Lesungen Instrumentalensemble auf historischen Instrumenten Leitung: Jan Sören Fölster Eintritt frei
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: “Stabat Mater”
Viola Wiemker – Sopran
Michael Taylor – Altus
Dr. Tanja Pilger-Janßen – Lesungen
Instrumentalensemble auf historischen Instrumenten
Leitung: Jan Sören Fölster
Eintritt frei
Time
(Friday) 3:00 pm
Location
Jesus Christus Kirche
Hittorfstraße 23
may 2020
Event Details
Our times appear to be a sheer endless present – a continuing state of crisis, where the future is perceived more as a
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Our times appear to be a sheer endless present – a continuing state of crisis, where the future is perceived more as a threat than a promise. Simultaneously, new demands on this possible future are constantly being voiced, demands that stem from the day-to-day impotence felt by every individual faced with the overwhelming problems. The new music theater work opera, opera, opera! revenants and revolutionsconfronts this ambivalent situation: At a point far in the future, a choir with partial amnesia converses with themselves and with a cyborg about where they come from, how everything came about, and where they are headed to. Are we in an ice age or a war? Where were we on the last day? In an airplane? No, on a train platform – or part of a furious fisherman choir in the middle of a grand opera in 1830, which supposedly triggered a revolution and the founding of Belgium. The cyborg is tormented by stored memories and searching for answers, and the choir also grapples with its condition. Fragments, infestations, individual and collective remembrances arise from its murky memory. In the face of these moments, questions are posed over and over again: Which social potential does a mutual voice still have? Where should all of these historical turning points and utopian desires go in light of the rubble and human failures? The opera will be conceived and staged in a collective development process in cooperation with Ole Hübner’s Oper Halle (composition); Thomas Köck (libretto); Michael v. zur Mühlen (director); Martin Miotk (set designer); Maria Huber (dramaturge); Jakob Boeckh (conceptual designer); and Kornelius Paede (dramaturge). The musical direction is in the hands of the accomplished conductor Michael Wendeberg. Following the world premiere in Munich the production will celebrate its premiere at Oper Halle on June 5, 2020.
Sunday, 17.05., 19:00 Uhr, Cuvilliés-Theater
Monday, 18.05., 19:00 Uhr, Cuvilliés-Theater
Tuesday, 19.05., 19:00 Uhr, Cuvilliés-Theater
Broadcast recording BR-KLASSIK
Broadcast date: BR-KLASSIK, 11 July 2020, 8.05 p.m.
Composition and libretto commissioned by the City of Munich for the Munich Biennale
A coproduction of the Munich Biennale with the Oper Halle
Time
(Sunday) 7:00 pm
Location
Cuvilliés Theatre
Residenzstraße 1
30may8:00 pmØdipus REC. by The Navidsonswith Ensemble Lemniscate Basel
Event Details
How much insight is possible in a world where we are constantly confronted with pictures? Are we blinded by the constant flow of visual information? What if we could only
Event Details
How much insight is possible in a world where we are constantly confronted with pictures? Are we blinded by the constant flow of visual information? What if we could only hear – as Oedipus after his self-blinding?
Ødipus REC. is a newly composed piece of music theatre that, proceeding from the crucial encounter of Oedipus and Tiresias, re-consults the ancient myth for its current topicality. What happens between Theresias – woman and man at the same time, mother of four children and infallible seer – and Oedipus – just ruler of Thebes, liberator of the city, foundling, but arrogant investigating judge. It is about Oedipus’ guilt, but also about the blind spot of our own sight, about the unsaid and the unheard.
Ödipus Thomas Douglas
Theresias Michael Taylor
Knabe Frederic Schultze
Ensemble Lemniscate
Ellen Fallowfield (Cello), Miguel Angel García Martín (Percussion), Gilles Grimaître (Piano),
Daniel Moreira (Guitar / Musical Direction), Azra Ramic (Clarinet)
New Musiktheater by The Navidsons
(Maxine Devaud, Maria Huber, Ole Hübner, Tassilo Tesche, Till Wyler von Ballmoos)
Lisa Danulat Text
Time
(Saturday) 8:00 pm