Name: Der Kaiser von Atlantis & Music for the End of Time
Start: 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Josep Pons

Baryton

Thomas Johannes Mayer

L'empereur Overall

Baryton-basse

Derrick Ballard

Le Haut-Parleur

Ténor

Oliver Johnston

Un soldat

Benjamin Hulett

Arlequin

Soprano

Soraya Mafi

La Garçonne

Henry Waddington

La Mort

Mezzo-soprano

Hanna Hipp

Le Tambour

Mise en scène

Kenneth Richardson

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Others

Guildhall School Musicians

Der Kaiser von Atlantis & Music for the End of Time

Londres

Royaume-Uni

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

Der Kaiser von Atlantis & Music for the End of Time: Der Kaiser von Atlantis Ullmann (+1 More)

Public

Private

Concert

L'empereur d'Atlantis

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Valide

Extraordinary music written amid the hopelessness of prison and concentration camps that dared to seek the truth – and to hope for better times.

In 1943, Theresienstadt inmates Viktor Ullmann and Peter Kien started to collaborate on a stage work. It would use whatever singers, musicians and instruments were at hand, drawing on styles ranging from jazz and cabaret to Lutheran chorales and grand Czech symphonies. The result was Der Kaiser von Atlantis, a political satire in which Death goes on strike, thwarting the emperor’s plans to maintain his power through endless war. Der Kaiser was quickly quashed when the Nazis saw their own leader in its critique of a petty despot.

Two years earlier, French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote Quartet for the End of Time in a labour camp. It has been described as ‘an intimate expression of awe, a prophetic collective scream and a delirious dance all at once.’ Its closing eulogy expresses the ascent of humankind to paradise.

English

Der Kaiser von Atlantis & Music for the End of Time by Ullmann, Messiaen, Du (2022/2022), Dirigé par Kenneth Richardson,, Chef d'orchestre Josep Pons, Barbican Centre, Londres, Royaume-Uni

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