Singer

Oliver Mears directs a new production of Bernstein’s operas in which one family’s fate becomes a microcosm for the troubled soul of America.

Trouble In Tahiti + A Quiet Place

Royal Opera House

The Weimar Republic’s urgent blend of desperate defiance and vast artistic possibility come together in this Ensemble Modern performance. It opens with Hindemith’s Kammermusik No. 1, a masterstroke of postmodernism. Erich Korngold’s hit suite from Much Ado About Nothing offers an early glimpse at his wildly successful partnership with Max Reinhardt, more than a decade before they fled Europe and made Hollywood history. Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene is—almost certainly intentionally—not so much a film “accompaniment” as it is a full-fledged main attraction. Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta joins in HK Gruber and Christian Muthspiel’s brand-new arrangement of The Seven Deadly Sins, a biting satire composed the same year Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s works were banned in their native Germany.

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Ensemble Modern

Carnegie Hall

In a rare U.S. performance, their first ever in Texas, Germany’s famed Ensemble Modern performs the American premiere of a new arrangement of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s popular musical theater work, The Seven Deadly Sins, with acclaimed mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta singing the lead role of Anna. The sound world conjures up Berlin cabaret, but Seven Deadly Sins begins and ends in Louisiana, evoking the exile of its creators. Music from the theater worlds of Berlin and Vienna round out this remarkable program.

Ensemble Modern | Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins”

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

We honor Handel’s intended ‘wow factor’ of Radamisto with a new staging by Christophe Gayral, a familiar name in some of Europe’s most prestigious opera houses, giving us a fitting close to our 21/22 season.

Handel’s Radamisto

Stanford University

Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta, the Ensemble Modern under the direction of HK Gruber and the ensemble amarcord – a concert dedicated to voices. The singers perform a varied program, with a focus on modern works.

Weill: "The Seven Deadly Sins"

Museum Ludwig

The end of the season will be a tribute to the vibrant American musical life, and inspiration has been drawn from jazz, blues, bebop, rock'n'roll and the cabaret genre.



It begins with Duke Ellington's charming musical portrait of the New York district of Harlem. He takes listeners on a Sunday morning walk – in his own words: “We walk from 110th Street up 7th Avenue, north through the Spanish and West Indian Quarter towards the business district that is on 125th Street... You can hear a parade go by past, or a funeral, or you can recognize the music of those demanding civil rights.”

Wallis Giunta

Mezzo-soprano

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 6, 2025

Weill: "The Seven Deadly Sins" · Kölner Philharmonie

May 15, 2025

Weilerstein & The Seven Deadly Sins · Aalborg Symfoniorkester

Past events

10 - 24 Oct, 2024

Trouble In Tahiti + A Quiet Place · Royal Opera House

Apr 12, 2024

Ensemble Modern · Carnegie Hall

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in The Seven Deadly Sins by Weill

Kölner Philharmonie

Singer in Kammermusik No. 1 by Hindemith

Kölner Philharmonie

Singer in Musik zu 'Viel Lärmen um Nichts by Korngold

Kölner Philharmonie

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