Symphony concert: Rosenkavalier Enigma

Richard Strauss's tongue-in-cheek waltz comedy meets his musical farewell. And Edward Elgar gives the audience a big mystery. With his Enigma Variations, Elgar created fourteen character pieces for orchestra, in which he musically portrayed people from his environment. The underlying theme was the counterpoint to a popular melody that Elgar never published, however. The model of Richars Strauss's Rosenkavalier suite, on the other hand, is clearly to be found in the absurdly amorous entanglements of his opera work — as an ironically broken homage to the Viennese waltz and the three-quarter time. In contrast to this are the Four Last Songs that Strauss composed at the end of his life. The settings of poems by Hermann Hesse and Joseph von Eichendorff are interspersed with a meditative farewell atmosphere — death appears here as a transcendent redemption. With Jonathan Nott, one of the most versatile and distinguished conductors of our time meets the Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra for the first time. The Englishman shares the country of origin with Elgar, while Strauss is his musical home. The soloist Corinne Winters is considered one of the most important Janáček performers worldwide. This season she will also be performing as Mimì at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

with works by Edward Elgar and Richard Strauss