Musica Non Crata: Silent Voices in a noisy World - Schedule, Program & Tickets

The matinee concert in the Palais in the Great Garden follows in the footsteps of two largely forgotten female composers who worked in the field of operetta at the beginning of the 20th century. Amélie Nikisch, the wife of the famous conductor Arthur Nikisch, was extremely busy and productive as a singer and composer. Rachel Danziger van Embden, a student of Wagner biographer Jacques Hartog, whose career came to an abrupt end when the National Socialists came to power, was also considered one of the most successful creators of her time in this field. Nikisch's operetta "My Aunt, Your Aunt", which premiered in Dresden in 1911, and Danziger's "The Village Countess" from 1910, both of which even found an echo in the "New York Times", are being heard again for the first time in decades. Moderations tell the background of the time and, with reference to the fates of the composers' families, address the persecution of artists between countries and continents as well as the idea of a political mandate for the arts: a program worth discovering not only for lovers of the genre.

NEFELI SPYROPOULOU SOPRANO
EKATERINA KROVATEVA SOPRANO
BÁLINT NÉMETH TENOR
FRIEDEMANN GOTTSCHLICH BARITONE
BENJAMIN HEWAT-CRAW BARITONE

ALEXANDER BREITENBACH PIANO
VOLKER KRAFFT STUDY
PD DR. KAI HINRICH MÜLLER MODERATION AND LEADERSHIP

Amélie Nikisch “My aunt, your aunt”
Rachel Danziger van Embden “The Village Countess”
(each in an abridged version for piano by Kai Hinrich Müller)



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