Moisés y Aarón de Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Opera
Viktor Ullmann
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
10 Jun, 16 - 18 Jun, 16
Musical conductor: Pedro Halffter
Stage Director: Gustavo Tambascio
The composer was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was a disciple of Arnold Schoenberg and later an assistant to Zemlinsky in Prague. His career as a composer was cut short due to the tragedy of the Holocaust. Ullmann's Jewish heritage made him a prisoner of Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. This was a place where many artists were held before being murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. While Ullmann was in the concentration camp, he composed The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death (1943), a work with echoes of Weill, Hindemith and Viennese Expressionism. The plot is a grotesque portrait of a tyrant in which many saw a caricature of the Nazi dictator. The protagonist forces humanity to indulge in a massacre but Death prevents the injured from dying. The piece was praised as "the abdication of death when faced with the universal horrors of life". As a result, the première at the camp was forbidden. With his sardonic sense of humor, stage director Gustavo Tambascio draws out the harsh and acrid meaning from this macabre satire.
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Spanish, English
PRÓLOGO
El canto de amor y muerte del corneta Christoph Rilke
12 fragmentos del poema de Rainer Maria Rilke para narrador y orquesta (1944)
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10 June 2016
22:00
Main Auditorium
Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Martin Winkler, Torben Jürgens, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Albert Casals, Sonia de Munck, Ana Ibarra
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12 June 2016
20:00
Main Auditorium
Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Martin Winkler, Torben Jürgens, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Albert Casals, Sonia de Munck, Ana Ibarra
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14 June 2016
22:00
Main Auditorium
Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Martin Winkler, Torben Jürgens, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Albert Casals, Ruth Iniesta, Ana Ibarra
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16 June 2016
22:00
Main Auditorium
Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Martin Winkler, Torben Jürgens, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Albert Casals, Ruth Iniesta, Ana Ibarra
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18 June 2016
22:00
Main Auditorium
Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Martin Winkler, Torben Jürgens, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Albert Casals, Ruth Iniesta, Ana Ibarra
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