Nordstad - Dresdner Festspielorchester - Minkowski - Schedule, Program & Tickets

With the Frenchman Marc Minkowski, the Dresden Festival Orchestra welcomes one of the leading conductors of our time to the podium, who founded the ensemble Les Musiciens du Louvre, which specializes in early music, at the age of nineteen and is considered a pioneer for historical performance practice. The first half of the concert brings together Offenbach and Wagner, two composers who were rather irreconcilable during their lifetime. Excerpts from Offenbach's almost forgotten great romantic opera "The Rhine Nixen" are followed by Wagner's "Wesendonck Songs", an expression of the composer's passion for Mathilde Wesendonck. The young Norwegian mezzo-soprano Astrid Nordstad, who has been conquering the European opera and concert stages since winning the “Tom Wilhelmsen Opera Prize” in 2022, is the ideal artist for these emotional sound worlds. The evening closes with Mendelssohn's famous Third Symphony, inspired by a trip to Scotland.

ASTRID NORDSTAD MEZZOSOPRANO
DRESDEN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
MARC MINKOWSKI CONDUCTOR

Jacques Offenbach Excerpts from the opera “The Rhine Mermaids”
Richard Wagner “Wesendonck Songs” WWV 91
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Symphony No. 3 in A minor op. 56 »Scottish«


CONCERT INTRODUCTION
6.30 PM (CULTURE PALACE, CENTRAL LIBRARY EVENTS ROOM, 1st FLOOR)



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