Lebensrätsel

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Program
Richard Wagner
Prelude and Isolde's Liebestod
from Tristan and Isolde WWV 90
1857-65

Richard Strauss
Final scene from Capriccio op. 85, TrV 179
1942
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Bacchanale
2025
Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra op. 30, TrV 176
1896

Cast
Christiane Karg Soprano
Andrés Orozco-Estrada Conductor

At the beginning of one of the most famous sunrises in music history: radiant and majestic, maximum light intensity from zero to one hundred within seconds. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is a grandiose masterpiece whose splendor no one can escape. In this symphonic poem, the composer pays homage to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and anyone who has heard the first few bars of the music will never forget it. It is not for nothing that this brilliant opening is often quoted, in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001 - A Space Odyssey as well as by Elvis Presley or in a commercial for a well-known German beer brand. Proof that outstanding quality can also have its downsides ... The "eternal return of the same" is a central thesis in Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. Love and passion, the linchpin of all human existence, also repeat themselves incessantly, determine the beginning and end, are life's riddle and solution in one. Richard Wagner created a monument to the hapless lovers Tristan and Isolde in what is perhaps his most evocative opera. The orchestral prelude is intoxicating and full of secrets. In the ecstatic finale, the wonderful Christiane Karg, alias Isolde, praises the fulfillment of impossible earthly love in better worlds beyond.

Price information:

Young adults: 9€ tickets (small contingent)