Liederabend Diana Damrau

Opera

The great soprano returns to Mannheim
In German

Diana Damrau began her international career in Mannheim. As a young singer, she was able to explore a wide variety of roles at the National Theater and build a repertoire that prepared her for the world’s greatest stages. Now the celebrated soprano returns for a recital—with a program that explores experiences of nature and images of nature from a Romantic perspective. The program centers on selected songs by Franz Schubert: from the radiant, hopeful “Gott im Frühling” to the dreamy “Nachtviolen” and “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen.” Louis Spohr’s “Six German Songs,” Op. 103, and Franz Lachner’s “Seit ich ihn gesehen,” Op. 82, expand the program to include further facets of Romantic sensibility. The evening takes on a special tonal quality thanks to one of Gustav Mahler’s most heartfelt and, at the same time, most ambiguous songs: “Das himmlische Leben” paints a picture of a paradise imagined through a child’s eyes. Another rarity is the “Heitere Herbarium,” with which Hermann Prey enjoyed great success as early as the 1950s.