© Sima Dehgani Osterfestspiele Baden‐Baden: War Requiem
Baden‐Baden, Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden
About the Event
The War Requiem is based on Latin texts and poems by the English poet Wilfred Owen, who died in 1918. At the premiere of the work in 1962 in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral, Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau sang alongside British artists. Benjamin Britten thus set an example of reconciliation. The oratorio features a mixed choir, a boys' choir, a symphony orchestra, a chamber orchestra and vocal soloists. This effort underlines the composer's desire to focus all his energies on overcoming war and violence.
Practical Information
The categories on the seating plan are divided as follows:
Category 1 = yellow
Category 2 = pink
Category 3 = red
Category 4 = blue
Category 5 = green
Category 6 = blackberry
Category 7 = dark brown
Category 8 = light brown
Program
- Benjamin Britten – War Requiem, op. 66
Artists
| Orchestra, Piano: | Mahler Chamber Orchestra The Mahler Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1997 on the initiative of Claudio Abbado and a group of musicians from the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra who wished to continue to play together even after reaching the youth orchestra's age limit. The combined principles of artistic curiosity and the broadest possible spectrum of repertoire, both at the highest possible musical level, guided the ambitious ensemble in its founding and continue to shape its work today. The ensemble’s repertoire reaches from baroque to contemporary and includes everything from chamber music to symphonic programming, from operatic standards to world premieres. |
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| Conductor: | Joana Mallwitz |
| Choir: | Tschechischer Philharmonischer Chor Brünn |
| Choir: | Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe |
Address
Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden, Beim Alten Bahnhof 2, Baden‐Baden, Germany — Google Maps
