De Wagner à Ravel – Classique France-Allemagne
Klaus Florian Vogt & Gergely Madaras
Symphony Concert
Sunday, 1 September 2019
6 pm, Gstaad Festival Tent
Lohengrin conducted by James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera New York in 2006, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg in Bayreuth the following year, Parsifal at the Liceu Barcelona in 2011: German tenor Klaus Florian Vogt definitely holds all the cards to set the Gstaad Tent on fire, a year after his fellow countryman Jonas Kaufmann during a – non-exclusive! – Wagner evening.
Indeed, Gergely Madaras and the Lyon National Orchestra will be adding a bouquet of different colours – different rhythms, different periods – by calling to the stage Gerschwin’s An American in Paris, a creation by French Tristan Murail, and Ravel’s ageless Boléro to close this true «festival within the Festival».
Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor
Orchestre National de Lyon
Gergely Madaras, Conductor
| Richard Wagner (1813-1883) | |
| Overture to the opera «Tannhäuser» | 15' |
| «Amfortas! Die Wunde», aria from the opera «Parsifal» | 10' |
| «Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond», aria from the opera «Die Walküre» | 4' |
| Tristan Murail (1947) | |
| «Les Neiges d'antan» for large orchestra (world premiere – work commissioned by the Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2019) | 10' |
| Richard Wagner (1813-1883) | |
| «Höchstes Vertraun», aria from the opera «Lohengrin» | 3' |
| Gralsrezählung («In fernem Land…»), aria from the opera «Lohengrin» | 6' |
| – Interval – | |
| George Gershwin (1898-1937) | |
| «An American in Paris» for orchestra | 20' |
| Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) | |
| «Boléro», ballet music in C Major | 15' |
| 120' | |
| CHF 160/135/95/65 |