Name: Der Kaiser von Atlantis & Music for the End of Time
Start: 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Dirigat

Josep Pons

Bariton

Thomas Johannes Mayer

Overall

Bass-Bariton

Derrick Ballard

Lautsprecher

Tenor

Oliver Johnston

Ein Soldat

Benjamin Hulett

Harlekin

Sopran

Soraya Mafi

Mädchen

Henry Waddington

Mezzosopran

Hanna Hipp

Trommler

Regie

Kenneth Richardson

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

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Guildhall School Musicians

Der Kaiser von Atlantis & Music for the End of Time

London

Vereinigtes Königreich

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

Der Kaiser von Atlantis & Music for the End of Time: Der Kaiser von Atlantis Ullmann (+1 More)

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Der Kaiser von Atlantis

Quartett für das Ende der Zeit

Genehmigt

Extraordinary music written amid the hopelessness of prison and concentration camps that dared to seek the truth – and to hope for better times.

In 1943, Theresienstadt inmates Viktor Ullmann and Peter Kien started to collaborate on a stage work. It would use whatever singers, musicians and instruments were at hand, drawing on styles ranging from jazz and cabaret to Lutheran chorales and grand Czech symphonies. The result was Der Kaiser von Atlantis, a political satire in which Death goes on strike, thwarting the emperor’s plans to maintain his power through endless war. Der Kaiser was quickly quashed when the Nazis saw their own leader in its critique of a petty despot.

Two years earlier, French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote Quartet for the End of Time in a labour camp. It has been described as ‘an intimate expression of awe, a prophetic collective scream and a delirious dance all at once.’ Its closing eulogy expresses the ascent of humankind to paradise.

English

Der Kaiser von Atlantis & Music for the End of Time by Ullmann, Messiaen, Ab (2022/2022), Unter der Regie von Kenneth Richardson,, Dirigat Josep Pons, Barbican Centre, London, Vereinigtes Königreich

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