

Due to exceptionally high temperatures, MM Tickets will exceptionally be closed on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 July. If you’d like to collect your copy of 18. The Harmony of Human Passions on these days, you can do so at the reception of the La Monnaie Workshops (Rue Léopold 23). We remain reachable by phone (02 229 12 11) between 12:00 and 18:00 and by email at tickets@lamonnaie.be.
CloseAN EYE ON THE HORIZON
‘When it storms upon the waves / The shipman’s wife knits at home, / But her heart is yearning / Out to the wild sea.’ Based on the poem of the same name by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Richard Strauss’s melodrama Enoch Arden tells the story of a sailor who goes to sea in order to save his family from penury and when he returns, many years later, finds his wife, Annie, has remarried to one of her old suitors. This work, with Dietrich Henschel in the title role, is followed by lieder of Richard Strauss, sung by Sally Matthews. Both singers are also appearing in Strauss’s opera Capriccio, which, like the melodrama genre, explores the relationship between words and music.
PROGRAMME
cat 1 - € 44 / cat 2 - € 34
cat 3 - € 24 / cat 4 - € 10
ca 1h15’
(no interval)
radio broadcast Klara
08.05.2016
20:00
Soprano SALLY MATTHEWS
Narrator DIETRICH HENSCHEL
Piano SIMON LEPPER
PRODUCTION La Monnaie / De Munt
CO-PRESENTATION Bozar Music