Schwanengesang

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Program

Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration op. 24, TrV 158
1888-89
George Benjamin
Interludes and Aria from
Lessons in Love and Violence
2024
Jonathan Harvey
Tranquil Abiding
1998
Richard Strauss
Four last songs op. posth., TrV 296
1948

Cast
Anu Komsi Soprano
Sakari Oramo Conductor

As different as we humans are - in one respect we are all the same, without exception: we must die, all life on earth ends. When, where and how - that is the big question that has preoccupied us for as long as we have been able to think and feel. What is death like? As Richard Strauss, just 34 years young, imagined it, a retrospective, sublime, solemn, a tremendous ascent towards a shining horizon? Or is the same composer closer to an unfathomable truth when in 1948, a year before his own death, he lets the soul soar in free flight in the Four Last Songs and presents us earthlings with one of the most touching works of classical music? The Finnish soprano Anu Komsi and Sakari Oramo on the podium immerse themselves in this overwhelming realm between melancholy, peace, farewell and a premonition of death. However, dying can also have a completely different side ... the Brit George Benjamin sings a song about it.

Price information:

Young adults: 9€ tickets (small contingent)