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Loud cheers: Angelika Kirchschlager as "Lucretia"

Angelika Kirchschlager Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia " . Image: © Rolf Bock / Theater an der Wien

the master class in this summer's opera Bamberg in September Angelika Kirchschlager lead. Of art and skill of the acclaimed mezzo-soprano can currently satisfy in Vienna: On 17

February, at the Theater an der Wien Benjamin Britten's chamber opera "The Rape of Lucretia" premiere. 1946, first performed directly after the horrors of World War II, she sits against the backdrop of the ancient story of the desecration of the beautiful, chaste Roman Lucretia with all the timeless issues of power and greed, desire and violence, loyalty and forgiveness, virtue and temptation apart.

In the center of the acclaimed Directed by Keith Warner, surrounded by an excellent ensemble and worn by Britten's colorful, yet reduced music (at the podium of the Vienna Forum sound: the British conductor Sian Edwards), Angelika Kirchschlager stands with her powerful and expressive design of the title role.

The courier from 18.02. praises under the heading: Once everything really fits

"... Angelika Kirchschlager, who gives a vocally as an actor incredibly intense Lucretia, whose fate is actually under the skin When Kirchschlager is on stage, holds. one unwillkürli ch breath. A sensational performance by mezzo-soprano. "

And Upper Austrian News of 21.02. secondary explode..

Remains "nor Lucretia, who found in Angelika Kirchschlager the ideal interpreter of this easily fit all even if not to be too exciting for all parts of the vocal use seems, here are the intrinsic values, and the brought Angelika Kirchschlager very emotional to bear that Britten's idiosyncratic musical disposition and the non-problematic libretto by Ronald Duncan work shows well the great jubilation -.. even in the second performance "

Further performances on 25 and 27 February, 1 March
dates, tickets and more information here .

Angelika Kirchschlager is their experience in a master class from 11.9. - 14/09/2011 to pass on to the young singers of the Summer Opera Bamberg.
application deadline is the 25th March 2011, there more information here .

SOB in Vienna: The team's summer opera performance will Bamberg on 27 February in Vienna and visit the following day with Angelika Kirchschlager concept and program of the successful European opera youth project, which is already this year in the fourth round, imagine the press in Vienna. More info soon.

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