Song recital: Da wird gesungen werden, von den finstern Zeiten

In these dark times, will people still sing? Through songs by Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill, Elsa Barraine, Bertolt Brecht, Ruth Zechlin, and Frederic Rzewski, soprano Annabelle Kern explores the diversity of political music: in this intimate setting, the music reveals a completely different facet—touching, vulnerable, and lyrical—than, for example, in the agitational choruses of Eisler’s Deutsche Symphonie.

As part of the festival Deutschland, Deutschland unter anderem – Musiktheater im Präfaschismus, a century-spanning arc is drawn from the Weimar Republic to today’s prospect of similarly dark times. The recital forms the centerpiece of the discourse series at the Fridericianum, and, situated between resistance and exile, the program mirrors the current exhibition The Pause That Dreams Against Erasure by Catherine Opie with its all-too-human perspective on marginalization and protest.

Annabelle Kern, soprano; Lorenzo di Stefano, piano; Felix Linsmeier, dramaturgy

Tickets are available on the Staatstheater website.