Organization

Singer

Juliana Zara

Soprano

David Pichlmaier

Baritone

Stage director

Karsten Wiegand

Conductor

Karsten Januschke

Set designer

Dramaturge

Isabelle Becker

Chorus master

Ines Kaun

Staatstheater Darmstadt

Requiem für einen jungen Dichter -  (Requiem for a Young Poet)

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Requiem for a Young Poet

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The  "Requiem for a Young Poet "is Bernd Alois Zimmermann's last composition and his second major work alongside" The Soldiers ". With a gigantic line-up of four choirs, orchestra, jazz band, organ, singers and speakers, Zimmermann finds a unique musical expression for the anxious question about the future in the face of oppression and recurring wars. In the work, which the composer himself describes as a lingual (language piece), tape recordings of political, philosophical and literary texts from 1920 to 1970 meet a moving composition based on the requiem liturgy, electronic sounds are also played live The result is a large, multi-perspective sound space in which, according to Zimmermann's idea of ​​the "spherical shape of time", the past,Present and future can be experienced as a unit.

English

Requiem for a Young Poet by Zimmermann, B. A., Directed by Karsten Wiegand,, Conductor Karsten Januschke

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