MUSIK AM 13. : Dornröschen

Programm

Joachim Raff 1822-1882
Dornröschen – First revival of the opera-oratorio for 170 years

Katinka Bohse Meyer, Sleeping Beauty
Julia Wirth, Water Fairy
Lars Tappert, Narrator
Gustav Wenzel Most, Count
Matthias Lika, Baritone
Lukas Krimmel, Baritone

Bachchor Stuttgart
WÜRTTEMBERG PHILHARMONIC REUTLINGEN
Jörg-Hannes Hahn, conductor

Introduction 6.15pm: Volker Tosta

Tickets at €20-44 (reductions of -50% for Cat. II-IV) via +49 (0)711/2 555 555, www.bachchor.com and at the box office

Recording by

With the kind support of Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung

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Joachim Raff’s »Dornröschen« did not just wait for a hundred years, but much longer to be kissed awake. During his lifetime, its composer was one of the most sought-after in Germany. Contemporaries ranked him along with Wagner and Brahms. In 1856 his fairy tale epic to a text by Wilhelm Genast was premiered with tableaux vivants at the Weimar Court Theatre, but after that, it fell into oblivion, like Raff himself. Now there is an opportunity to experience the work again for the first time in its complete form.