Erlking's daughter
Joint summer concert of the Music High School Schloss Belvedere and the Weimar University Choir
The Music High School Schloss Belvedere and the Weimar University Choir invite you to a joint summer concert on Thursday, 20 July at 7:30 pm in the Weimarhalle. The Weimar University Choir with students from the University of Music FRANZ LISZT and the Bauhaus University Weimar and the choir of the Schloss Belvedere Music High School, directed by Annette Schicha, will sing.
The orchestra of the Music High School, conducted by Joan Pagès Valls, will play. Prof. Kerstin Behnke, professor of choral and ensemble conducting at the Weimar Musikhochschule and director of the university choir, is the artistic director of the evening.
Soloists are the soprano Thora Runhilde Müller, the mezzo-soprano Luzia Ernst and the baritone Moritz Freimuth from the Department of Singing and Music Theatre at the University of Music Weimar. The programme includes works by Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg and Niels Wilhelm Gade.
Tickets are 20 euros, concessions 15 euros, and are available at the Weimar Tourist Information and at the box office.
The main work of the evening is the oratorio "Erlking's Daughter", which is one of Niels Wilhelm Gade's most frequently performed works - and yet remains largely unknown. During Gade's lifetime, there were performances all over the world, as far away as Sydney and New York. Shortly after it was written, the oratorio was translated into German, then also into French and English.Particularly fascinating was the "Nordic tone" and the poetic folksong-like sounds with which Gade accompanies the protagonist Herr Oluf to the Erlengrund.
There, on the eve of his wedding, Herr Oluf must resist the beguiling courtship of the Erlking's daughter and pays for it with his life:He is struck by a curse hurled at him by the spurned elf. This ballad for soloists, choir and orchestra is set alongside Edvard Grieg's famous "Peer Gynt Suite No. 1" and the choral ballads "Im Walde", "Jägerlied", "König von Thule" and "Ungewitter" by Robert Schumann.
[10 July 2023]