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The
Wagner
Gala
From the
Semperoper Dresden
Christian Thielemann
Staatskapelle Dresden
Jonas Kaufmann
The
Wagner
Gala
From the
Semperoper Dresden
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer
A Faust Overture in D minor (1855 Version)
Rienzi’s prayer “Allmächt’ger Vater”
Overture to Rienzi
Prelude to Lohengrin
Lohengrin’s Grail Narration “In fernem Land” (original version)
HANS WERNER HENZE
Fraternité – Air pour l’orchestre (1999)
RICHARD WAGNER
Tannhäuser’s Rome Narration “Inbrunst im Herzen”
Overture to Tannhäuser
Conductor Christian Thielemann
Orchestra Staatskapelle Dresden
Chorus Sächsischer
Staatsopernchor Dresden
Chorus Master Pablo Assante
“Dresden is still the only place on earth where I feel at home,
everywhere else I am a stranger,” wrote Richard Wagner in 1858
in a letter to his first wife Minna. Wagner felt Dresden to be
home, and the city did much to shape his intellectual and artistic
development: after spending his childhood and early years there,
from 1843 to 1849 he was the Royal Saxon Kapellmeister of the
Dresden Hofkapelle (court orchestra) - as the Staatskapelle was
then known.
In memory of the great composer, and mindful of its own Wagner
tradition, the Staatskapelle staged a glittering gala concert in
the Semperoper on the eve of Richard Wagner’s bicentenary.
It was directed by its Principal Conductor Christian Thielemann,
indisputably one of the great Wagner conductors of the present
day. He was joined by the hottest young heroic tenor of recent
years, Jonas Kaufmann. The programme featured the overtures
to the Wagner operas written and premiered in Dresden - 1842
Rienzi, 1843 The Flying Dutchman and 1845 Tannhäuser - and
great tenor scenes from Rienzi, Tannhäuser and Lohengrin.
Wagner’s works were counterpointed by Hans-Werner Henze’s
Fraternité, Air pour l’orchestre.
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann
Produced by ACCENTUS Music
Video Director Michael Beyer
Length: 108'
Shot in HDTV 1080/50i
Cat. no. A055500380000
A production of UNITEL
in co-production with ZDF for Arte,
Semperoper Dresden and CLASSICA
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