Name: 3rd Chamber Concert
Start: 2022-02-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-02-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum - Liederhalle

Organization

Pianist

Stefan Schreiber

Petra-Maria Wenzel

Zanger

Alexander Klimov

No role specified

Young Opera in the North

Staatsoper Stuttgart

3rd Chamber Concert

Stuttgart

Duitsland

Kultur- und Kongresszentrum - Liederhalle

Public

Concert

Approved

Friendship in times of political unrest gives not only hope and strength, but also courage. A happy coincidence brought the paths of Dmitri Shostakovich and Mieczysław Weinberg together, after the latter had already twice fled from the German Wehrmacht - first under dramatic circumstances from his hometown Warsaw to Minsk, then to the Uzbek capital Tashkent. Here he created his 1st symphony, which ended up in the hands of the revered master Shostakovich via detours. Impressed by his younger colleague's talent, he helped Weinberg get a residence permit in Moscow. Just one year later, in 1944, the works of this chamber concert were written, both of which are characterized by profundity and passionate intensity. In 1953 their friendship was finally put to the test, when Weinberg was arrested because of his Jewish origins. Shostakovich, himself a victim of Stalinism's repressive cultural policy, took an enormous risk when he wrote a letter of supplication to the head of the secret service. But only the death of Stalin could lead to his release. They are connected by the deeply moving piece "Fratres" by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.

English

Voorstellingscredits (Cast & Productieteam )

Cast

Productieteam

Co-producent