VALENTINE'S DAY 2021

 HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY ALL

Check out a really fabulous 4K Romantic Piano Music playlist that should last you 90 minutes, probably just long enough to read the news somewhere other than FB

It's a really big help / support if you check it out and take a listen. It's a mix of German lieder and opera classics.

4K HD LINK: https://youtu.be/U8qrJ8SknB4

Wagner's GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG

Hi all, 

The Corona Virus pandemic and subsequent lockdown period has affected us all, not just in Berlin, Germany, or Europe, but the entire world. 

Unfortunately the performing arts industry has been significantly impacted by the restrictions. In a city like Berlin, which is the only city in the world to support three state opera houses, for both performers and audiences alike, the lack of live opera performance has been sole destroying. 

Though the houses are tentatively opening their doors for an initial 4 month season, it is unlikely that we will be able to enjoy the grandeur of the large scale operatic works. 

Therefore I share with you here, a piano accompaniment to the final instalment of Richard Wagner's epic "Ring des Nibelungen" cycle: Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods). 

If you love the music, I hope you enjoy this performance. If you are a singer, I hope that it is of some use for you practicing along to the accompaniment. 

Please subscribe to the YouTube channel, and feel free to like and share the recordings. 

Hopefully we get back to the live performances sooner rather than later. 

MJT

Götterdämmerung. 1.Aufzug (First Act)

Götterdämmerung. 2.Aufzug (Second Act)

Götterdämmerung. 3.Aufzug (Third Act)

 

Leben? Oder Theater? Ein Singspiel

LEBEN? ODER THEATER? EIN SINGSPIEL
(Life? Or Theatre? A Song-Play)

Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist originally from Berlin, who created a series of autobiographical paintings while she was hiding from Nazi persecution in Southern France 1941-1943. Tragically she was deported to Auschwitz in 1943, where both she and her unborn child were executed. 

Self Portrait 1940. Charlotte Salomon - care of Wikipedia.

Marie Pohl and her father Klaus Pohl have developed Salomon's "wagnerian" work of gouaches into a libretto, which will be presented as a semi-staged reading with music at the Komische Oper Berlin this coming Monday late evening.

Care of Joods Historisch Museum, www.jhm.nl

There is a real eclectic mix of international artists involved with this project, including writers, actors, directors, musicians, singers, etc from America, Cuba, Australia, England and Germany. 

The performance will take place in the foyer of the Komische Oper Berlin, Behrenstrasse 55-57 on Monday night 2 June 2014 starting at 22.15. Tickets are only €15 and the performance should last 75 minutes.

Further details are available in German on the Komische Oper website here: and more history of Charlotte on wikipedia.