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FULL DER WALD & THE PRISON (Ethel Smyth) Selections Berlin 2024 Emma Moore, Manuel Nickert
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: THE PRISON & DER WALD Selections
- Composer: Smyth Ethel
- Libretto:
- Venue & Opera Company: Berliner Dom, Berlin, Germany
- Recorded: November 30, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Emma Moore, Manuel Nickert
- Conductor: Norbert Ochmann
- Orchestra: Orchester Junge Philharmonie Kreuzberg
- Chorus: studiosi cantandi Berlin, Tonkollektiv HTW
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Tonkollektiv HTW
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Ethel Smyth, born in 1858 in Sidcup, Kent, was an English composer and a significant figure in the British music scene of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her oeuvre includes operas, orchestral pieces, choral works, and chamber music. As a suffragette, Smyth was active in the women’s rights movement of her time.
DER WALD
“Der Wald” is a short opera in German, which premiered in 1902 at the then Prussian Court Opera. The story takes place in the Middle Ages, and the mistress of a forest leads a young woodcutter to his doom.THE PRISON
is a symphony for soloists, choir, and orchestra. The protagonist of the story is an unnamed prisoner who, facing execution, grapples with the questions on the threshold between life and death.(Visited 69 times, 1 visits today)