1st Carpentry Concert — Wider das Vergessen

In the concert series “Wider das Vergessen”, the orchestra presents former employees of its own opera house who were dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933. Some of the more than 40 people have been able to brilliantly continue their careers abroad. Others have emigrated, even though their artistic careers have suffered as a result or have ended completely. Many have lost friends and relatives, and some were deported and murdered themselves. After extensive research by orchestral director and solo timpanist Benedikt Leithner, Margarita Broich will read between musical contributions from personal documents by Else Hallauer-Wühler (soprano), Gerhard Pechner (baritone) and Wilhelm Gombert (tenor). *** The carpentry concerts are the chamber music heart of carpentry. Here, the musicians decide for themselves: What moves us? What do we want to share? Inspired by new productions on the opera stage and in the carpentry workshop, six evenings are created that bring together the familiar and the hidden. These concerts are personal, unexpected, vivid, the orchestra's secret passions. Music for heart and mind. Six evenings in the carpentry shop. Come by and hear what moves our musicians.

A culture of remembrance in words, images and sound: The orchestra deals with the history of its own opera house