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Where?
European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk
Description
performance in honor of prof. Tadeusz Krzeszowiak
The grand finale of the Baltic Opera Festival will feature an extraordinary recital by Anett Fritsch. This intimate encounter with one of the most distinguished lyric sopranos of her generation—an artist who moves with equal ease between the worlds of opera and art song—presents a program that masterfully intertwines music with the poetry of Heinrich Heine.
Anett Fritsch is among the most acclaimed singers on the European operatic stage, appearing regularly at such prestigious venues as Opernhaus Zürich, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, La Monnaie in Brussels, and Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. Her repertoire encompasses a remarkably broad spectrum, ranging from the Baroque, through Classicism and Romanticism, to late-Romantic works and operetta.
A special place in her career is reserved for the works of Mozart, in which she has created a series of outstanding portraits, including Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. Significantly, she is one of the few singers to have performed all three major female roles in the latter opera, moving from Cherubino to Susanna and eventually to the Countess.
Her artistic range also includes Bel Canto and Romantic roles such as Adina in L’elisir d’amore, Mimì in La bohème, Marzelline in Fidelio, and Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites. At the same time, the artist successfully explores the Baroque repertoire—performing as Almirena in Handel’s Rinaldo or Ginevra in Ariodante — while gradually expanding her interests to include Wagnerian and Straussian roles such as Freia in Das Rheingold, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung, and Zdenka in Arabella.
In recent seasons, she has appeared as Idamante in Idomeneo at the Stuttgart Opera and as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro on Europe’s most important concert stages, from the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg to the Philharmonie Luxembourg. She collaborates with leading conductors and ensembles, including Il Giardino Armonico and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, and is a regular guest at prestigious festivals such as Glyndebourne and the Salzburg Festival.
The recital at the Baltic Opera Festival will reveal Anett Fritsch in a particularly intimate light. The evening’s program, titled Madame, ich liebe Sie! (Madame, I Love But Thee), is built around the poetry of Heinrich Heine, one of the most vital poets of Romanticism whose work inspired the greatest composers of the 19th century. The program features songs by Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck-Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Schumann’s cycles—Liederkreis, Dichterliebe, and Myrthen—hold a central place here, leading the listener through the full spectrum of Romantic emotions, from rapture and ecstasy to disappointment and melancholy.
The unique form of the recital lies in its dramaturgy, where songs are interspersed with recitations of Heine’s poetry to create a cohesive, almost theatrical narrative that flows from the first confessions of love through the experience of loss to reflection and stillness. The poet’s texts will be presented by the distinguished actor Sven-Eric Bechtolf, accompanied by Florian Krumpöck at the piano.
The grand finale of the Baltic Opera Festival will feature an extraordinary recital by Anett Fritsch. This intimate encounter with one of the most distinguished lyric sopranos of her generation—an artist who moves with equal ease between the worlds of opera and art song—presents a program that masterfully intertwines music with the poetry of Heinrich Heine.
Anett Fritsch is among the most acclaimed singers on the European operatic stage, appearing regularly at such prestigious venues as Opernhaus Zürich, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, La Monnaie in Brussels, and Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. Her repertoire encompasses a remarkably broad spectrum, ranging from the Baroque, through Classicism and Romanticism, to late-Romantic works and operetta.
A special place in her career is reserved for the works of Mozart, in which she has created a series of outstanding portraits, including Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. Significantly, she is one of the few singers to have performed all three major female roles in the latter opera, moving from Cherubino to Susanna and eventually to the Countess.
Her artistic range also includes Bel Canto and Romantic roles such as Adina in L’elisir d’amore, Mimì in La bohème, Marzelline in Fidelio, and Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites. At the same time, the artist successfully explores the Baroque repertoire—performing as Almirena in Handel’s Rinaldo or Ginevra in Ariodante — while gradually expanding her interests to include Wagnerian and Straussian roles such as Freia in Das Rheingold, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung, and Zdenka in Arabella.
In recent seasons, she has appeared as Idamante in Idomeneo at the Stuttgart Opera and as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro on Europe’s most important concert stages, from the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg to the Philharmonie Luxembourg. She collaborates with leading conductors and ensembles, including Il Giardino Armonico and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, and is a regular guest at prestigious festivals such as Glyndebourne and the Salzburg Festival.
The recital at the Baltic Opera Festival will reveal Anett Fritsch in a particularly intimate light. The evening’s program, titled Madame, ich liebe Sie! (Madame, I Love But Thee), is built around the poetry of Heinrich Heine, one of the most vital poets of Romanticism whose work inspired the greatest composers of the 19th century. The program features songs by Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck-Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Schumann’s cycles—Liederkreis, Dichterliebe, and Myrthen—hold a central place here, leading the listener through the full spectrum of Romantic emotions, from rapture and ecstasy to disappointment and melancholy.
The unique form of the recital lies in its dramaturgy, where songs are interspersed with recitations of Heine’s poetry to create a cohesive, almost theatrical narrative that flows from the first confessions of love through the experience of loss to reflection and stillness. The poet’s texts will be presented by the distinguished actor Sven-Eric Bechtolf, accompanied by Florian Krumpöck at the piano.
