Name: Vokalhelden-Chorprojekt
Start: 2017-06-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-06-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Berliner Philharmonie

Organization

Singer

Iwona Sobotka

Queen

Sophia Burgos

Conductor

Simon Rattle

Chorus master

Simon Halsey

Stage director

Ela Baumann

Peter Tantsits

Georges

Ieoaoa

Aurélie Franck

Mondquartett

Anna-Luise Oppelt

Matthias Jahrmärker

Jakob Ahles

Berliner Philharmoniker

Vokalhelden-Chorprojekt

Berlin

Germany

Berliner Philharmonie

Großer Saal

Singing together and inspiring an interest in making music is the goal of our Education Programme’s Vocal Heroes project, and to achieve this, Vocal Hero choirs for children and young people have been founded all over in Berlin. Under the direction of Simon Rattle, they present Andrew Norman’s children’s opera A Trip to the Moon: a fantastical adventure in outer space whose themes include encountering strangers and overcoming prejudices.

A Trip to the Moon Norman

Public

A Trip to the Moon

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass

Mezzo-soprano

Baritone

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Contralto

Tenor

Soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

After participating in the performances of the children’s operas What’s lurking in the labyrinth by Jonathan Dove (2015) and The Two Fiddlers by Peter Maxwell Davies (2016), another large-scale Vocal Heroes choir project was performed at the end of the 2016/17 season. Besides the Vocal Heroes children’s choirs, amateur singers of youth and adult choirs were involved in a joint concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker and young instrumentalists conducted by Sir Simon Rattle: the premiere of a new theatrical musical work composed especially for this project by the American composer Andrew Norman, who was born in 1979 into a family of dyed-in-the-wool Star Wars fans: “We watched it every weekend for, seriously, years on end ...”

Fascinated by John Williams’s famous film music, Norman decided already at a young age to become a composer; in fact, his career has already got off to a very good start, as the graduate of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California and the Yale School of Music has been literally showered with composition prizes: “He’s a wonderful orchestrator, and his imagination is just so exceptional”, is the judgment of the pianist and composer Jeffrey Kahane, who in December 2015 premiered Norman’s piano concerto Split with the New York Philharmonic conducted by James Gaffigan. His new opera A Trip to the Moon Norman composed in his typical way of working: “I go away and hide in my cave for six months and come out with this fully formed piece, and people play it,” he says (whereby with “cave” he means the converted garage adjacent to his house in El Sereno northeast of Los Angeles). Of course the work plays in the vastness of outer space …

English

Vokalhelden-Chorprojekt by Norman, A., Dom 18 Méit 2017, Ó (2017/2017), Faoi stiúir Ela Baumann,, Seoltóir Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid