FULL THE HIDDEN PAGE Chamber Opera about Alma Mahler (Ernst Spyckerelle) Amsterdam 2025 Ekaterina Levental,Georgi Sztojanov, Elisabeth Hetherington

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Hidden Page - De Verborgen Bladzijde Chamber Opera about Alma Mahler   
• Composer: Spyckerelle Ernst, and others  
• Libretto: Ayla van Kessel    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
• Recorded: October 17, 2025
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Ekaterina Levental, Georgi Sztojanov, Elisabeth Hetherington, Berend Eijkhout
• Conductor: Andreas van Tol  
• Orchestra: Intercontinental Ensemble  
• Stage Director: Ria Marks   
• Stage Designer: Elisabeth Ruijgrok  
• Costume Designer: Julia Klok  
• Lighting Designer: Thomas Stinissen  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Intercontinental Ensemble  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Vienna, 1935. A mother’s grief. A continent on the brink.

  The new chamber opera about the fascinating Alma Mahler. Vienna’s most powerful muse loses her daughter in 1935. Silent mourning is not possible: Germany is preparing the annexation of Austria and everyone must choose sides. An opera about the price of love, self-determination, and the malleability of memory.

  In this performance, Alma Mahler is no longer ‘the wife of’, but a headstrong, talented and progressive woman. The Intercontinental Ensemble presents the chamber opera The hidden page about her life, with music by Alma and Gustav Mahler, Berg, Zemlinsky, and new compositions by Ernst Spyckerelle. A musical story about emancipation, feminism, loss, and legacy.

  As such, the opera is not only about Alma herself, but also about topics that are relevant today. Alma deals with these themes in her own unique way, holding up a mirror to us.

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