Christiane Karg, soprano
Wolfram Rieger, piano
Mélodies by Ravel and lieder by Schubert & Mahler
Wednesday 20 August 20:30 h
sold out
 
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La Schubertíada va ser testimoni del debut de Christiane Karg a Espanya el 2009 i ara torna convertida en una de les sopranos líriques més importants del panorama internacional, un cop d’ull al llistat dels seus col·laboradors, a l'abast de molt poques cantants, ho revela: Christian Thielemann, Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Harding, Mariss Jansons, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Seguin, Riccardo Chailly, Nkolaus Harnoncourt, Bernard Haitink, Valery Gergiev, Iván Fischer, Klaus Mäkelä i Riccardo Muti.
 
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Franz Schubert
Lieder (selection)
Maurice Ravel
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
Shéhérezade
Gustav Mahler
Rückert-Lieder
 
Christiane Karg
Christiane Karg

Born in Bavaria, she studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. She has performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Opéra National de Paris , the Lyric Opera Chicago, the Met in New Yor , La Scala in Milan, the Vienna State Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Berlin State Opera or the Bavarian State Opera, as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna and Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) or Micaëla (Carmen). She continues to cultivate her passion for song with regular guest appearances at the Schubertiade in Hohenems and Schwarzenberg, as well as at London's Wigmore Hall. She has also given numerous recitals at the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin and at the Salzburg Festival. She is the artistic director of the KunstKlang festival in Feutschwangen. For her services, she received the Brahms Prize of the Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein, the Bavarian Culture Prize in the category of art, and the Bavarian Order of Merit.

Wolfram Rieger
Wolfram Rieger

Wolfram Rieger studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Erik Werber and Helmut, and attended several masterclasses with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He began teaching at the Munich Hochschule in 1991 while still a student. In 1998 he became a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and regularly holds masterclasses throughout Europe and Japan. He is frequently invited to important venues and festivals around the world, such as the Feldkirch and Vilabertran Schubertiades, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the Vienna Musikverein. He has accompanied Brigitte Fassbaender, Barbara Bonney, Juliane Banse, Michelle Breedt, Thomas Hampson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Matthias Goerne, and Thomas Quasthoff, among others.