In the organizer's words:

Opera

Musical start to the year under the direction of Axel Kober

Bring the festive season to a close and ring in the New Year with great music: This is exactly what we invite you to do at the National Theatre Orchestra's New Year's Concert. The internationally renowned conductor Axel Kober, who is well known at the National Theatre, will be conducting the concert. The program will open with a concert performance of the first act of Richard Wagner's "Walküre". It is not only the famous "Winterstürme" that will be heard; the momentous encounter between the siblings Siegmund and Sieglinde (Jonathan Stoughton, Astrid Kessler) in the house of the treacherous Hunding (Sung Ha) inspired Wagner to create a score that is unparalleled in terms of tension and emotion, both orchestrally and vocally. The second part of the concert continues with Richard Strauss' "Rosenkavalier Suite", which is more conciliatory but no less powerful. Axel Kober's numerous guest conducting engagements between Bayreuth, Zurich, Tokyo, Dresden and Milan, to name just a few of his regular venues, prove just how at home he is in this repertoire. As part of the Mannheim New Year's Concert, Axel Kober will be awarded honorary membership of the Richard Wagner Association Mannheim Kurpfalz. This content has been machine translated.