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

Direction d'orchestre

Kirill Petrenko

Soprano

Elsa Dreisig

Contralto

Wiebke Lehmkuhl

Ténor

Daniel Behle

Basse

Christian Gerhaher

Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker

Others

Rundfunkchor Berlin

Kirill Petrenko conducts Mendelssohn’s “Elias”

Berlin

Allemagne

“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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