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.

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Vocalissimo

Magdalena
Kožená
& Yefim Bronfman

Presentation

Having such a versatile artist as Magdalena Kožená as a guest is always a special experience. Following her double recital with Dorothea Röschmann at La Monnaie in 2008, the Czech mezzo-soprano now presents a solo recital in which she combines German and Slav elements into a single whole. The theme of everyday life runs through her programme: in the children’s room (Musorgsky) or in the countryside (Bartók) and also in Shostakovich’s satirical slices of life. The contrast and emotion in these scenes closely reflects Shostakovich’s views: ‘Music is capable of expressing dark drama and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment...’ For his Village Scenes, Bartók used Slovak folk songs as his starting point; Magdalena Kožená will sing this series in Slovak – a return to Bartók’s sources.

PROGRAMME
  • Johannes Brahms
    Lieder
  • Modest Musorgsky
    Detskaya [The Nursery] (1872)
  • Dmitry Shostakovich
    Satirï [Satires] (S. Chorny), ‘Pictures of the Past’, op.109 (1960)
  • Béla Bartók
    Falun (Dedinské scény) [Village Scenes], BB87a (1924)
Dates & tickets

Location

La Monnaie

Running time

1:50 (1 intermission)

Prices

Cat 1 - € 46 / Cat 2 - € 38
Cat 3 - € 24 / Cat 4 - € 10

Dates & tickets

Dates

  • Sat 11 May 2019

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

    CANCELLED
Cast
Cast

Mezzo MAGDALENA KOŽENÁ
Piano YEFIM BRONFMAN

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