Omer Meir Wellber conducts world premiere of Ella Milch-Sheriff’s opera ALMA (October 2024)
Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the new opera by composer Ella Milch-Sheriff:
ALMA, an opera about Alma Mahler-Werfel, will have its world premiere at the Volksoper Vienna on October 26.
“It has been a dream of mine for years to write an opera about Alma. I have often asked myself why she is not only fervently revered, but also passionately hated. Who was this Alma Schindler really, who wrote ‘I want to compose a really good opera’ in her diary at the age of 19? What happened that it never came to pass? I investigated all these questions together with the Israeli author Ido Ricklin, who wrote a highly exciting libretto,” says Ella Milch-Sheriff.
Ella Milch-Sheriff: Alma
Opera in five acts
Libretto by Ido Ricklin
Translation from the Hebrew by Anke Rauthmann
Commissioned by the Volksoper Vienna
Further information can also be found here:
Ella Milch-Sheriff’s new opera ALMA: world premiere on October 26 (August 2024)
nations come together in London and a wide variety of languages are spoken on the streets. At the same time, London is also the cultural capital of Europe with a rich and lively music scene. In the evenings, people come together at the opera, in the concert halls, but also in the many private salons and theatres. You can hear new music by George Frideric Handel, Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti and Giuseppe Matteo Alberti. These cultural highlights were widely reported in the first daily newspapers of the time, which did not go unnoticed abroad and attracted even more musicians and composers to London. For this is the story of the foreign masters. London was then, as it is today, a melting pot of the European cultural scene. Anyone who thought highly of themselves, or who – to put it bluntly: wanted to earn money – went to London and presented their music there.
Following a busy August of concerto and recital appearances at the Tanglewood, Aspen and Edinburgh festivals and the Hollywood Bowl, Midori embarked on her 2024/2025 season, highlights of which include:
• A week at the Krzyzowa Chamber Music Festival in Poland, helping to celebrate its 10th anniversary;
• Recording Spring Cadenzas, a work composed by Derek Bermel for her Orchestra Residencies Program, with the Boston-based ensemble A Far Cry and its Project STEP students;
• Recital tours to Turkey, India and Sri Lanka, among others;
• Concerto appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Andris Nelsons in Vienna and on tour to Korea and Japan and with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Jonathan Nott on tour in Spain;
• “Hope Concerts” in Ishikawa, Japan, to support victims of the January 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake with pianist Mao Fujita;
• International Community Engagement Project (ICEP) in Nepal with three young string players;
• Recitals in the U.S. with pianist Özgür Aydin in Boston, New York San Francisco and Los Angeles, among others in the spring of 2025. The recital program is a musical reflection on suffering and loss inspired by Federico García Lorca’s poem Casida of the Lament represented in works by Poulenc, Brahms and Ravel and the premiere of Spirituals by Che Buford;
• Recording works by Robert Schumann
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