Julia Kleiter and Werner Güra: »Wolf’s Italian Songbook«
RESTKARTEN AN DER ABENDKASSE
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Start
7:30 p.m.
End
9 p.m.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Hugo Wolf set Paul Heyse’s German translations of Italian love poems to music. These songs depict the countless aspects of love: infatuation and conflict, heartache and euphoria, loneliness and longing. The internationally acclaimed soloists Julia Kleiter and Werner Güra, accompanied by pianist Christoph Berner, provide a rare opportunity to hear both parts of the cycle together in the regal atmosphere of the New Palace in Bad Muskau.
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Italian Songbook, HWW 159
Julia Kleiter
Born in Limburg, German soprano Julia Kleiter studied with William Workmann inHamburg and with Klesie Kelly-Moog in Cologne.In 2004, she made her operatic debut at Opéra-Bastille in one of her signature roles,Pamina, in Die Zauberflöte. In the course of the following years she performed thisrole under the baton of some of the most influential conductors of their time, suchas Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Claudio Abbado, or, most recently, Philippe Jordan inMadrid, Zurich, at the Edinburgh and the Salzburg Festival as well as theMetropolitan Opera in New York.Julia Kleiter will dedicate the upcoming seasons to the operas of Richard Strauss,debuting some of the major roles of his oeuvre: 2020 she can be heard in the titlerole of Arabella in Zurich and as Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier in Brussels. In2021, she will star for the first time as Gräfin in Capriccio in a new staging at ZurichOpera.
Highlights of past seasons include Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro in Londonconducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Ilia in Idomeneo in Milan, Eva in DieMeistersinger von Nürnberg unter Kirill Petrenko in Munich and under PhilippeJordan in Paris, Agathe in Der Freischütz in Dresden and at Milan’s Teatro alla Scalaas well as Donna Anna at Hamburg ́s State Opera. Furthermore, she has workedwith conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, Riccardo Muti, Marc Minkowski, Ivor Bolton,René Jacobs, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Zubin Mehta, Giovanni Antonini,or Marek Janowski.As a concert singer and song recitalist, she is regularly invited to all major concertvenues. Her extensive repertoire includes Schumann ́s Das Paradies und die Peri,Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Haydn ́s Schöpfung, Bruckner ́s Te Deum as wellas Dvorak’s Requiem. Mendelssohns’ Lobgesang in Madrid and Beethoven’s MissaSolemnis in Duisburg are scheduled later this season as well as several recitals atZurich Opera, Barcelona and London ́s Wigmore Hall. In recital, Julia Kleitercollaborates with pianists Michael Gees and Julius Drake. She is a regular guest atSchubertiade Schwarzenberg, and has also sung at the Pierre-Boulez-Saal in Berlin,the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Philharmonie Essen.Julia Kleiter is represented on a vast array of recordings. Her newest album, Songsby Franz Liszt, will be released in January 2020 on Hyperion.
Werner Güra
Born in Munich, tenor Werner Güra completed his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He continued his vocal training with Prof. Kurt Widmer in Basel, Prof. Margreet Honig in Amsterdam and Prof. Wessela Zlateva in Vienna. After guest opera appearances in Frankfurt and Basel, he became a member of the ensemble of the Semperoper in Dresden in 1995, where he was heard in the major roles of his vocal subject, especially in operas by Mozart and Rossini.
Under the direction of Daniel Barenboim he sang at the Berlin State Opera, and as a guest he participated in new productions of Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra National de Paris and La Monnaie Brussels, working(e) with orchestras such as. Berliner Philharmoniker, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Wiener Symphoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra or the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Adam Fischer, Bernard Haitink, Leopold Hager, Daniel Harding, Thomas Hengelbrock, René Jacobs, Marek Janowski, Fabio Luisi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Roger Norrington or Trevor Pinnock. Werner Güra has also had great luck,
In the current season Werner Güra can be heard in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with Fabio Luisi in Copenhagen, in Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Johannes Prinz at the Vienna Musikverein, in Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Concentus Musicus and Stefan Gottfried in Vienna, in Bach's St. John Passionin the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, in Bach's B minor Mass in Paris, in Bach's St. John Passion on tour with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, as well as in Bruckner's Te Deum at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.
Above all, Werner Güra is also an internationally acclaimed Lied interpreter with regular appearances at London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Cologne's Philharmonie, Gulbenkian Lisbon, Lucerne Festival, Lincoln Center New York, Schubertiades in Schwarzenberg and Barcelona.
He has also participated in numerous CD recordings for Harmonia Mundi France. Since 2009 Werner Güra teaches singing at the Musikhochschule Zürich.
Artists
Sopran Julia Kleiter
Tenor Werner Güra
Piano Christoph Berner