Rihm / Brahms

18. December 2022

Dates & Tickets

Wolfgang Rihm
Aria/Ariadne «Szenarie» for soprano and chamber orchestra after a text by Friedrich Nietzsche

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90

More information:
Introduction 45 min before the performance.

Music Direction:

Gianandrea Noseda

Gianandrea Noseda has been General Music Director of the Zurich Opera House since the 2021/22 season. In addition, he is Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, he became Music Director of the newly founded Tsinandali Festival and the Georgian Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra. From 2007 to 2018, Noseda served as General Music Director of the Teatro Regio di Torino, where he artistically reshaped the opera house during his tenure. Noseda has conducted the world’s leading orchestras (Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic) as well as at the most prestigious opera houses (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House) and festivals (BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Salzburg, and Verbier). He has also held leading positions with the BBC Philharmonic (Chief Conductor), the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Principal Guest Conductor), the Mariinsky Theatre (Principal Guest Conductor), and the Stresa Festival (Artistic Director). His discography comprises more than 80 CDs, with a special focus on the "Musica Italiana" project, which features neglected 20th-century Italian repertoire. Born in Milan, Noseda is a Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana and received the Order of Merit of the City of Milan in 2024. In 2015, he was named "Musical America’s Conductor of the Year," was awarded "Conductor of the Year" at the 2016 International Opera Awards, and received the Puccini Prize in 2023. In the same year, the Oper! Awards honored Noseda as "Best Conductor," particularly recognizing his interpretations of the first two "Ring" operas at the Zurich Opera House.

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Cast

Sopran Mojca Erdmann

Mojca Erdmann

Mojca Erdmann wurde in Hamburg geboren und studierte in Köln parallel zu einem Violinstudium Gesang. 2002 gewann sie beim Bundeswettbewerb nicht nur den ersten Preis, sondern auch den Sonderpreis für zeitgenössische Musik. 2005 wurden ihr vom Schleswig-Holstein-Musikfestival der NDR-Musikpreis und vom Kissinger Sommer der Luitpold-Preis verliehen. Ihr Repertoire ist breit gefächert und reicht vom Barock bis zur zeitgenössischen Musik. Engagements führten sie u.a. an die Bayerische Staatsoper, das Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, das Theater an der Wien, zu den Salzburger Festspielen, dem Festival d’Aix-en-Provence sowie in die Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, das Concertgebouw Amsterdam, die Philharmonien in Köln und Berlin, die Tonhalle Zürich und zur Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. 2011 debütierte sie an der Metropolitan Opera New York als Zerlina (Don Giovanni) unter Fabio Luisi und 2014 gab sie unter der Leitung von Daniel Barenboim zur Spielzeiteröffnung der Mailänder Scala ihr Hausdebüt als Marzelline in Beethovens Fidelio. Als gefragte Interpretin des zeitgenössischen Musiktheaters sang sie 2009 die Titelrolle in Wolfgang Rihms für sie geschriebenem Monodrama Proserpina bei den Schwetzinger Festspielen, 2018 Claudia in Toshio Hosokawas Stilles Meer an der Hamburger Staatsoper und 2019 eine Seele in Jörg Widmanns Babylon an der Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Ausserdem übernahm sie in Luca Francesconis Zwei-Personen-Stück Quartett unter der Leitung von Daniel Barenboim an der Staatsoper Unter den Linden eine der beiden Hauptrollen sowie die Titelpartie von Bergs Lulu an der Staatsoper Hamburg.

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Philharmonia Zürich

Abstract

«Setting Nietzsche to music is like singing into a sound context, letting voice into already existing singing», says the composer Wolfgang Rihm, whose Aria/Ariadne will be conducted by Gianandrea Noseda in the 2nd Philharmonic Concert. For this «Scenarie» for soprano and chamber orchestra, composed in 2001, Rihm drew on the «Lament of Ariadne» from Friedrich Nietzsche's Dionysus Dithyrambs. Nietzsche's poetic work inspired him again and again - from individual songs to a Dionysus opera - and stimulated him in a special way to question the relationship between text and music. Mojca Erdmann, who also sang Ariadne in the Salzburg premiere of Rihm's Dionysus opera in 2010, takes on the soprano part in this concert.

Johannes Brahms' Third Symphony was written in Wiesbaden in the summer months of 1883 and premiered to great acclaim in Vienna the following December. Among the work's many admirers was the composer Antonín Dvořák, who wrote to his publisher: «It is pure love, and it makes your heart soar».

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