“From Berlin to New York” is the motto of German Television’s traditional New Year’s Eve Concert in 2013. And true to the motto Maestro Christian Thielemann, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the two world stars Reneé Fleming and Klaus Florian Vogt celebrate the New Year’s Eve 2013 with great hits and works from Eduard Künneke, Paul Lincke, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and others.
Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden 2012
Program: J.S.BACH: Orchestra Suite No. 4: Réjouissance / G. F. HANDEL: Messiah: “Alle Tale macht hoch erhaben”, “Denn die Herrlichkeit Gottes des Herrn”, “Halleluja” / W. KIENZL: Weihnacht (Kulman) / W. A. MOZART: Great Mass in C minor: Gloria in excelsis Deo, Laudamus te / A. BRUCKNER: Locus iste (Chor a cappella) / J. MASSENET, Méditation aus „Thais“ / MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY: Weihnachtskantate „Vom Himmel hoch“ / E. HUMPERDINCK: Christmas Cantata: “Vom Himmel hoch”, Hänsel und Gretel: Abendsegen und Traumpantomime, CH. GOUNOD: Saint Cecilia Mass: Sanctus
The Kálmán Gala
With this Gala Concert from the Semperoper in Dresden, Christian Thielemann gives eloquent testimony to an early love of his, the operetta. Since the beginning of his conducting career he has had a fascination for this genre. Time and again he has drawn parallels between the heavyweight Wagner and lighter works, his principal aim being to demonstrate the skills he acquired while conducting operettas: “Anyone who can handle The Merry Widow,” he says, “will have no problems with Lohengrin.” For this gala he turned his attention to Lehár’s contempory Emmerich Kálmán. He found two enthusiastic partners in Ingeborg Schöpf, the leading soprano from the Dresden State Operetta company, and internationally acclaimed tenor Piotr Beczala, and was frenetically applauded by the audience. They are joined by the Dresden State Opera Chorus and the Dresden Opera Ballet dancing in the beautiful interiors of the Semperoper.