Romantic vocal lines, atonal sprechgesang or even just spoken word – give Georg Nigl a text and he imprints expression and meaning on each and every syllable. In honour of his literary recital, we delved deep into our archives and found this – equally literary – fragment: his heartfelt interpretation of the poet Jakob Lenz in the eponymous opera by Wolfgang Rihm, which earned him the title of ‘Singer of the Year’ in 2015.
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Oft fühl’ ich um Mitternacht…
Georg Nigl sings ‘Jakob Lenz’
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This Is Who We’ve Been Waiting For
Julia Bullock, more than a soprano
‘One of the singular artists of her generation’ (The New York Times); ‘a lavishly gifted soprano’ (The New Yorker); ‘This Is Who We’ve Been Waiting For’ (Peter Sellars). For anyone still in doubt: she has the Big Apple lying at her feet. And now Belgium too. A conversation with Julia Bullock, the driving force behind Zauberland.
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How ‘Dichterliebe’ became ‘Zauberland’
Composer Bernard Foccroulle on his first staged composition
In Zauberland, Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe, cornerstone of the Lied genre, is paired with new compositions by Bernard Foccroulle. We payed our previous intendant a visit to ask him about his inspiration behind this engaged recital production.
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Véronique Gens
Ambassador of neglected French music
The soprano Véronique Gens is a regular on our stage. She made her debut here as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) and then performed Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Aulide), Roi Gaële (Alceste), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito) and, most recently, Madame Lidoine (Dialogues des Carmélites). She is also a passionate interpreter of French mélodie.
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The word interests me more than the note.
Mark Padmore
“Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder”. The British tenor Mark Padmore opens the recital season at La Monnaie on September 24th. Accompanied by pianist Simon Lepper, he will perform Robert Schumann’s ‘Kerner Lieder’ and Ludwig van Beethoven’s intimate cycle ‘An die ferne Geliebte’. Of all Beethoven’s works, it is his large-scale pieces for orchestra which tend to steal the limelight, but Mark Padmore shows how Beethoven was also a trailblazer in the Lied genre.