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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
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.