Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, © Festspielhaus Weihnachtsoratorium
Baden‐Baden, Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden
About the Event
“Our mother tongue is the music of the Habsburg Monarchy,” says Iván Fischer about his Budapest Festival Orchestra. With a “Catholic perspective,” the Hungarian conductor now takes another look at Johann Sebastian Bach. The conductor will perform Bach's popular “Christmas Oratorio” for the second time in Baden‐Baden – expanded to include cantatas that were not performed last year.
With surtitles in German and English.
Practical Information
The categories on the seating plan are divided as follows:
Category 1 = yellow
Category 2 = pink
Category 3 = red
Category 4 = blue
Category 5 = green
Category 6 = blackberry
Category 7 = dark brown
Category 8 = light brown
Program
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Weihnachtsoratorium, Kantaten I‐III & VI BWV 248
Artists
| Choir: | Vocalconsort Berlin |
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| Orchestra: | Budapest Festival Orchestra One of the finest orchestras playing today, the BFO is a much‐loved institution in its home city and a regular guest in the world's greatest halls and theatres. Led by founder, Iván Fischer, the Budapest Festival Orchestra is acclaimed for its exceptional range, winning multiple awards for recordings and performances from across the musical spectrum. The orchestra has also received praise for its educational programmes and outreach work, with multiple smaller ensembles from within the orchestra offering jazz, traditional folk music, authentic baroque performances, and concerts for children, families, and students. |
| Conductor, Violoncello da Spalla: | Ivan Fischer One of the great musical polymaths of our era, the Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer founded the Budapest Festival Orchestra in the mid‐1980s. His work as the orchestra's Musical Director and chief conductor over the decades has established it as one of the world's premiere symphonic ensembles. A regular and much‐loved guest conductor with many of the leading European and American orchestras, Fischer is conductor laureate of Berlin's Konzerthausorchester and honorary guest conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. An active composer, his works have attracted international attention, as has the successful launch of his opera company, IFOC, which seeks to create an organic unity between music and theatre, with stagings that frequently spatially link singers and instrumentalists. |
| Bass: | Hanno Müller‐Brachmann |
| Soprano, Violoncello da Spalla: | Mirella Hagen |
| Alto: | Olivia Vermeulen |
| Tenor: | Raphael Höhn |
Address
Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden, Beim Alten Bahnhof 2, Baden‐Baden, Germany — Google Maps
