Name: Wagner and Schoenberg
Start: 2023-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: St John's Waterloo

Artist

Admin

Conductor

Jonathan Finney

Tenor

Alex Haigh

Parsifal

Soprano

Catharine Woodward

Kundry

Bass-baritone

Nicholas Morris

Klingsor

Singer

Ingeborg Børch

Sechs Blumenmädchen

Corinne Hart

Kristel Vinter Knudsen

Charlotte Richardson

Grace Maria Wain

Wendy Silvester

Orchestra

Orchestra of New Palace Opera

New Palace Opera

Wagner and Schoenberg

London

United Kingdom

St John's Waterloo

Parsifal Wagner,Richard

Public

Verklärte Nacht op. 4

Approved

Richard Wagner: Parsifal Act 2, concert performance

Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht – Transfigured Night, arranged for full orchestra by Jonathan Finney

Continuing the New Palace Opera tradition of presenting Wagner in concert, this is an evening of ultra-romantic music, featuring at its centre the attempted sexual seduction of the innocent Parsifal to the dark side by the supernatural seductress Kundry. 

In contrast, this is preceded by Schoenberg’s Tristanesque musical tone poem about the redemptive power of love. Verklärte Nacht began life as a string sextet before being arranged by the composer for string orchestra – in this latest incarnation will be presented for full orchestra, emulating the composer’s own romantic masterpiece Gurrelieder.

In the title role, we welcome back Alex Haigh fresh from his triumphant Albert Herring with New Palace Opera last December.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble