RheinVokal at Arp Museum

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Elena Zhidkova, mezzo-soprano

Nikolaus Rexroth, piano

 

A Russian voice for Wagner - the annual guest performance of RheinVokal in Rolandseck. For 15 years, Russian mezzo-soprano Elena Zhidkova has sung Wagner's great roles on stages around the world: Venus in Bayreuth, Fricka in Geneva, Brangäne in Tokyo and Kundry at the Vienna State Opera. Pianist Nikolaus Rexroth is her accompanist when she dives deep into the "Fin de Siècle" at the Arp Museum: Forgetting the world and longing for death in the tones of a Wagner, Mahler and Mussorgsky.

 

Richard Wagner: Five songs after poems by Mathilde Wesendonck

Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
Piano Music from the Fin de Siècle

 

 

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