FULL NACHTLIEDER (Siegfried Matthus) Cologne 2023 Arndt Schumacher
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Nachtlieder
- Composer: Matthus Siegfried
- Libretto: from the Bible, Herder, Novalis, Heine, Morgenstern
- Venue & Opera Company: WDR Funkhaus Köln, Germany
- Recorded: March 26. 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Arndt Schumacher
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Kammermusik-Ensemble des WDR Sinfonieorchesters
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: WDR Klassik
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Siegfried Matthus (13 April 1934 – 27 August 2021) was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager. Some of his operas, such as Judith, were premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin in East Berlin. In 1991, he founded the chamber opera festival Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and directed it until 2018. In 2005, he composed a Te Deum for the reopening of the Dresden Frauenkirche. Matthus is considered one of Germany’s most often performed contemporary composers.
Biography
Matthus was born in Mallenuppen [de] (now in Ozyorsky District), East Prussia. His father was a farmer and played for entertainment and dancing. His father made sure that the son received piano lessons. In 1944, his parents fled with him to Läsikow [de] in the Ruppin district. Matthus attended secondary school in Rheinsberg, followed by studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. After graduating, he continued his studies in composition with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and Hanns Eisler, and was shortly thereafter made the youngest composer in residence in the history of the Komische Oper Berlin by Walter Felsenstein.
Stage works
Matthus composed more than a dozen stage works. The opera Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (Cornet Christoph Rilke’s song of love and death ) after Rainer Maria Rilke was completed in 1983, first performed in Dresden in 1985, and performed also by the Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 1993. The opera Graf Mirabeau (1987–88) is set during the French Revolution. It was commissioned for the 200th anniversary of Bastille Day and enjoyed simultaneous productions in both East and West Germany as well as Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and France. The opera was recorded by the Berlin State Opera.Other opera recordings include his Old Testament-based “opera vision” Judith (1984) by Komische Oper Berlin and Der letzte Schuss with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2003 he composed music for both a ballet and an opera adaptation of Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story.
Quoted from Wikipedia