Name: Kirill Petrenko conducts Mendelssohn’s “Elias”
Start: 2023-01-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-01-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Berliner Philharmonie

Organization

Dirigat

Kirill Petrenko

Sopran

Elsa Dreisig

Wiebke Lehmkuhl

Tenor

Daniel Behle

Bass

Christian Gerhaher

Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker

Others

Rundfunkchor Berlin

Kirill Petrenko conducts Mendelssohn’s “Elias”

Berlin

Deutschland

“Strong, zealous and, yes, even bad-tempered, angry and brooding” – that is how Felix Mendelssohn envisioned the biblical prophet Elijah, the protagonist of his oratorio of the same name. The composer dramatically portrays a man who struggles to bring the people back to the true faith – in vain, as he realizes at the end. The outstanding baritone Christian Gerhaher will be heard as Elijah, conducted by Kirill Petrenko.

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