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In her new ballet, Cathy Marston traces the different facets of Clara Schumann's life, a life that she devoted entirely to music as a daughter, artist, wife, mother, carer, manager and muse.
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«Who is this woman who played the piano so well?» As a young student, Ragna Schirmer asked herself this question for the first time over thirty years ago. Today, she is a sought-after specialist in the work of Clara Schumann, whose compositions and programmes she has studied, recorded and performed at many original concert venues. Ragna Schirmer can now be heard as a piano soloist in Cathy Marston's ballet Clara and in the discussion concert
03 Nov 2024
«Music and stage intertwine in an ideal way, there is a lot to make you smile, to rave and to think about. This is how a season opener should be.»
NZZ, 24.09.24
Is «Ariadne auf Naxos» a piece for opera experts or does a newcomer also enjoy it, Markus Poschner? In the video, the conductor of our new production reveals what Strauss' opera has to do with the Mona Lisa, why he considers «Ariadne» to be one of the most complete works in all of opera literature and how it relates to the great paradox of life.
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This Philharmonic concert features an exceptional artist of the younger generation on the podium of our orchestra: the 24-year-old Finn Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Philharmonia Zurich in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5. Violinist Anna Pogostkina will be the soloist in Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor.
20 Oct 2024
Swedish soprano Nina Stemme is one of the world's leading singers in the dramatic repertoire. She recently proved this at Opernhaus Zürich as Isolde, Turandot and the Marschallin in Strauss' Rosenkavalier. This season, the singer can be seen together with pianist Magnus Svensson in a recital. In the first part, she will perform Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and Sigurd von Koch's cycle Die geheimnisvolle Flöte. The second part of the programme is dedicated to Nina Stemme's Scandinavian homeland.
31 Oct 2024
Alfred Schnittke is a great composer of the 20th century and a fascinating artistic personality. He stood in the tradition of Russian musical modernism, but also worked his way through the forms of the Baroque, Mozart, Schubert and film music. Parallel to his opera Leben mit einem Idioten on the main stage, we are presenting two of his most beautiful, virtuosic and polystylistically fascinating instrumental works at the Opera Nova concert.
07 Nov 2024
Schäfer Holzbautechnik is currently erecting a single-storey, pavilion-like wooden structure on the roof of our extension building. This 330 square meter transitional building is intended to temporarily relieve our most urgent space problems. We paid a visit to the Aargau-based company in advance and spoke to project manager Stephan Frey about the realization.
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