April 11–12: Robert Wilson Opera Streams
The Messiah Oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel, edited version by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from Mozart Week 2020
Saturday, April 11: The Messiah
2:15pm ET (8:15 pm CET in Berlin, Germany)
In the words of its composer, Handel’s Messiah aims at “sublimest sentiments.” It dwells on ultimate concerns, but also on humanity’s concrete fears, troubles and hopes. Mozart’s German-language version of Handel’s Messiah is famous, though seldom heard. Written in 1789, at the request of baroque enthusiast Gottfried van Swieten, this profound arrangement of Handel’s best-known oratorio includes copious woodwind parts. Robert Wilson’s highly acclaimed staging of The Messiah in the version of Mozart recently premiered at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg in January 2020. The production will be broadcast exclusively on the German TV channel 3Sat at 2:15 pm ET (8:15 pm CET).
Click here to access the livestream of 3Sat.
10:00 am ET (7:00 pm YEKT in Perm, Russia)
Based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, La Traviata is an iconic work of opera by Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave. Premiered at the State Theater of Linz, Austria, in 2015, Robert Wilson's production of Violetta Valéry's tragic fate is one of his great successes in opera. After the run in Linz, the production was transferred to the Opera House in Perm, Russia. In 2017, the work received a "Golden Mask," the most prestigious Russian theater award, in three categories (Teodor Currentzis - Best Conductor; Nadeshda Pavlova - Best Female Singer; Robert Wilson - Best Lighting Design). Beginning at 10am ET on April 12, the Opera House in Perm will offer this acclaimed production to stream for 24 hours.
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