Artists
Otto Tausk
VSO Music Director
Robyn Driedger-Klassen
Soprano
Eve-Lyn de la Haye
Soprano
Tracy Cantin
Soprano
UBC Opera Ensemble
Choir
Otto Tausk VSO Music Director
Robyn Driedger-Klassen Soprano
Eve-Lyn de la Haye Soprano
Tracy Cantin Soprano
UBC Opera Ensemble Choir
Tickets
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05
Apr
2019
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Fri 8:00 pm
Orpheum
05 Apr 2019 —
Fri 8:00 pm
Orpheum
Program
Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Overture, Scherzo, Lied with Choir*, Allegro appassionato, Con Moto tranquillo, Wedding March, Ein Tanz von Rupeln, Finale)
Wagner
Götterdämmerung (Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music, Brunnhilde’s Immolation+)
Approx. 90 Minute Performance
1 Intermission
APRIL 5, 2019
Richard Wagner’s music was appropriated by Nazi Germany, used for inspiration and a road map to a “vision of the future” of Germany – particularly his extraordinary Ring Cycle. Götterdämmerung, recounting the final fate of Earth and the Norse Gods, closely paralleled what the Nazi command envisioned of their Reich. During the time of the Nazi party’s ascendancy, the music of Mendelssohn was banned, but in a concert that declared liberation from the Reich, his was the first music performed by the Berlin Philharmonic after the end of the war and the defeat of Nazi ideology.
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Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Overture, Scherzo, Lied with Choir*, Allegro appassionato, Con Moto tranquillo, Wedding March, Ein Tanz von Rupeln, Finale)
Wagner
Götterdämmerung (Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music, Brunnhilde’s Immolation+)
Approx. 90 Minute Performance
1 Intermission
APRIL 5, 2019
Richard Wagner’s music was appropriated by Nazi Germany, used for inspiration and a road map to a “vision of the future” of Germany – particularly his extraordinary Ring Cycle. Götterdämmerung, recounting the final fate of Earth and the Norse Gods, closely paralleled what the Nazi command envisioned of their Reich. During the time of the Nazi party’s ascendancy, the music of Mendelssohn was banned, but in a concert that declared liberation from the Reich, his was the first music performed by the Berlin Philharmonic after the end of the war and the defeat of Nazi ideology.
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