Thinking of Germany
After exploring the "construct of Germany" in an associative, humorous and sometimes ironic way in a concert with the Stuttgart State Orchestra conducted by GMD Cornelius Meister and "directed" by Schorsch Kamerun at the beginning of the season, we want to pick up and continue these traces at the end of the season in a second concert entitled "Denk ich an Deutschland" (Thinking about Germany) at night. In a mixture of concert essay and live radio play, it will be about new starts, alternatives and corrections - in terms of musical traditions as well as historical perspectives on two competing social systems.
The Staatsorchester Stuttgart is the house orchestra and heart of the Staatstheater Stuttgart and celebrated its 425th anniversary in the 2017/18 season. This makes it one of the oldest orchestras in the world, alongside the theater orchestras in Dresden, Munich and Kassel. It provides the soundtrack for more than 230 opera and ballet performances in the Littmannbau. It can also be heard in its symphony and chamber concert series in Stuttgart's Liederhalle, as well as in lunch concerts in the foyer of the opera house. The musicians are also particularly committed to young audiences and up-and-coming musicians with their seat-cushion concerts and their sponsorship of the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Orchestra.
On this concert evening, the Staatsorchester Stuttgart will perform works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Paul Dessau, Luigi Nono, Rio Reiser, Hans Werner Henze, Hanns Eisler and many others under the direction of German conductor and pianist Bernhard Kontarsky.
May 2021
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