Singer

With Die Walküre, Wagner leaves the realm of the gods and traces the story of the king of the gods Wotan’s mortal children and the warrior-maid Brünnhilde. The most well-loved opera of the tetralogy, it encompasses some of its most beautiful music: impassioned expressions of love, Wotan’s farewell to his beloved child Brünnhilde, the Magic Fire Music, and, of course, The Ride of the Valkyries, the rousing battle cry sung by eight Valkyrie sisters (memorably on the soundtrack of Apocalypse Now). With English supertitles.



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Ring Cycle: Die Walkure

Meyerson Symphony Center

Meet us at the intersection of art and science, in the Kimmel Center’s Hamilton Garden, for a panel discussion exploring A Song by Mahler, with a reception to follow. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania take the stage with the creative minds who brought A Song by Mahler to Philadelphia for a conversation about how both art and science can change the way we portray, care for, and love those living with cognitive impairment.

Music on the Mind

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

A love song by Gustav Mahler is at the center of this probing new work by eminent pianist and composer Marc Neikrug. Liebst du um Schönheit (“If You Love for the Sake of Beauty”), from Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, is “a key element to the drama,” Neikrug says, and, as it “embodies the message of love as an aspiration, a self-embodied posture, and a state of being,” it speaks to the emotional core of the work as well. A Song by Mahler centers on the changing realities of two characters: a concertizing singer who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s and her husband, who is also her accompanist. This work of music theater is “an attempt to address the specific emotional evolution of this couple, touching on their love and their particular relationship to music” Neikrug says. “It is not an attempt at documenting the myriad aspects of the disease.”

A Song by Mahler

David struggles to reconcile spiritual humility with ambition. His desire for more wreaks havoc on his family, friendships and, perhaps, his own faith. His journey from preacher to Governor, like the lives of those closest to him, is shaped by the current affairs of the 1980s.

Jennifer Johnson Cano

Mezzo-soprano

Events

2 - 5 May, 2024

Ring Cycle: Die Walkure · Dallas Symphony Orchestra

May 13, 2024

Music on the Mind · Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

May 15, 2024

A Song by Mahler · Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Jul 13 - Aug 13, 2024

The Righteous · Santa Fe Opera

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