Songs and Poets: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen

Song recitals in the foyer

05
Tuesday
December
20:00 - 22:00
€ 16,00 / concs.: 8,00*
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approx. 2 hours / one interval

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A joint production of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Haus für Poesie

05
Tuesday
December
20:00 - 22:00
€ 16,00 / concs.: 8,00*
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Free choice of seats
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Whether as a shepherd's call, hunting signal or mountain echo - in order to to evoke the voice of nature, the composers of the German Romantic period the duality of voice and piano in their songs with the addition of another instrument instrument, such as the clarinet or horn. The best-known example is Franz Schubert's "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock)", a composition from 1828 with settings of poems from the pen of Wilhelm Müller ("Der Berghirt" and "Liebesgedanken") and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense ("Nächtlicher Schall"). In addition to this work, lesser-known songs by Schubert, Schumann and Louis Spohr will also be performed.

The author of the evening, who responds to the songs with her own texts Ursula Krechel (born 1947 in Trier) will respond to the songs with her own texts. She is one of the few German-language writers to master all genres effortlessly. She regularly publishes poems, novels, theatre plays, essays and radio plays. She became known to a wider audience at the latest with the award of the German Book Prize for her novel "Landgericht" (published by Jung und Jung Verlag in 2012). Her most recent volume of poetry is entitled "Beileibe und Zumute" (Jung and Jung Publishers 2021).

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Classical art songs and modern poetry – lieder recital meets poetry reading in this series of events organised jointly with the Haus für Poesie Berlin. Each of the four evening events held in the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin will feature a poet reading original works whose themes complement the songs on the programme.

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02
DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 2. Fensterchen

In today's Advent calendar window, we are giving away 3 DVDs of "Der Schatzgräber" - an opera in a prelude, four acts and a postlude by Franz Schreker. If you would like to win one of the three DVDs, please send an e-mail today with the subject "The 2nd window" to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

DER SCHATZGRÄBER (THE TREASURE HUNTER) by Franz Schreker was a triumph at its world premiere in Frankfurt in 1920 and went on to play 44 times at assorted venues over the next five years. It then fell victim to a shifting zeitgeist and slipped from opera-house programmes, with a National Socialist ban on performances sealing its demise. Even after 1945 the Schreker revival was a long time coming – and THE TREASURE HUNTER has not featured prominently in the renaissance.

As with the vast majority of Schreker’s libretti, the story of Els and Elis explores the relationship between fantasy and reality, between art and life. Soulmates in the sense that they are both at the mercy of the king’s disposition, Els and Elis set off in search of different treasures. Elis, the minstrel, uses his magic lute to locate a stash of jewels and do humanity a good turn. Els, an innkeeper’s daughter who has grown up motherless in a tough, male-chauvinist world, becomes a liar, cheat and murderess in pursuit of her goal, tasking her suitors to steal the queen’s jewels and then having them killed once they have returned with the haul of treasure. Yet even with the gold in their possession, the pair are not content, and so, true to form, Schreker turns his attention to the theme of yearning per se, which is the actual “treasure” that the composer is interested in, “a dream of happiness and redemption”. Elis and Els are caught up in a swirl of dreams, memories, premonitions, songs and music. Their stories take on a dreamlike quality in a world beset by greed, murder and emotional inconstancy. For Franz Schreker the path to redemption could only be via art. Composed during the turmoil of the First World War, the TREASURE HUNTER score amounts to Schreker’s personal confession of artistic faith, executed in florid strokes of late-Romantic musical colour.

Conductor Marc Albrecht; Staging Christof Loy; Set design Johannes Leiacker; Costume design Barbara Drosihn; With Tuomas Pursio, Doke Pauwels, Clemens Bieber, Michael Adams, Joel Allison, Michael Laurenz, Thomas Johannes Mayer, Seth Carico, Daniel Johansson, Gideon Poppe, Stephen Bronk, Elisabet Strid, Patrick Cook, Tyler Zimmerman a. o.; Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin



Closing date: 2 December 2023, the winners will be informed by email on 4 December 2023. The DVDs will then be sent by post. Legal recourse is excluded.