Lia Pale, a name that is still fairly unknown in the Stuttgart region. This will change on Saturday, September 27, when the likeable Austrian and her band perform their favorite songs by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Hugo Wolf at the Stuttgart Theaterhaus. In terms of the program, this is a classical song recital, one might think ...
However, the singer and flautist Lia Pale is at home in jazz, where she has been very successful with various solo albums. But her heart also beats for German romantic art song - and so she has brought her two passions together! The result is the “Great European Songbook”, Lia Pale's personal declaration of love for song with arrangements for voice, piano, violin, bass and percussion of songs that we all know very well in their original form, but which we can now hear and discover in a completely new way.
Commissioned by the International Hugo Wolf Academy, Lia Pale has also worked for the first time on songs by Hugo Wolf, which will be performed as a kind of world premiere on September 27.
Advance ticket sales run via Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
Lia Pale, a name that is still fairly unknown in the Stuttgart region. This will change on Saturday, September 27, when the likeable Austrian and her band perform their favorite songs by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Hugo Wolf at the Stuttgart Theaterhaus. In terms of the program, this is a classical song recital, one might think ...
However, the singer and flautist Lia Pale is at home in jazz, where she has been very successful with various solo albums. But her heart also beats for German romantic art song - and so she has brought her two passions together! The result is the “Great European Songbook”, Lia Pale's personal declaration of love for song with arrangements for voice, piano, violin, bass and percussion of songs that we all know very well in their original form, but which we can now hear and discover in a completely new way.
Commissioned by the International Hugo Wolf Academy, Lia Pale has also worked for the first time on songs by Hugo Wolf, which will be performed as a kind of world premiere on September 27.
Advance ticket sales run via Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
Daniel Behle has made a name for himself worldwide as a Mozart interpreter and was honoured with the Echo Klassik award in 2020 for his album ‘MoZart’. He still regularly appears on stage in Mozart roles such as Idomeneo and Ferrando. Following his enthusiastically acclaimed debut as Lohengrin, however, the singer's schedule now increasingly includes Wagner roles (Siegmund, Loge etc.). Daniel Behle has also established himself as a Lied singer and has set new standards with recordings of the song cycles of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, among others. What has been missing from the singer's extensive discography so far, however, are songs by Hugo Wolf, and that is set to change in 2025! A Hugo Wolf album with pianist Burkhard Kehring is being planned - which the two will present to mark the 40th anniversary of the Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie in Stuttgart!
Songs by Robert Schumann, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Jean Sibelius
What a joy! At the beginning of 2025, the young bass-baritone Alexander Grassauer was honoured with the Emmerich Smola Award, making him the ‘SWR Young Opera Star 2025’. Congratulations - and we look forward to seeing and hearing the likeable Austrian again at the last gallery concert of the year on 23 November. Alexander Grassauer has not only mastered the grand gesture on the opera stage, but also knows how to impress as a Lied interpreter, as he demonstrated not least at the International Art Song Competition 2022, where he was awarded 2nd prize. In the gallery concert with pianist Marcelo Amaral, Alexander Grassauer will perform songs by Robert Schumann, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Jean Sibelius.
With ‘Schubert 200’, Samuel Hasselhorn and Ammiel Bushakevitz have started a countdown to the year 2028. This is when the music world will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Franz Schubert's death. At the centre of the project are five CD recordings that trace Schubert's song compositions in the last five years of his life. After Die Schöne Müllerin (1823) and Licht & Schatten (1824/25), the third programme, Hoffnung, focuses on Schubert's life and work in 1826. In a positive and hopeful mood, we start the year 2026 with these two outstanding artists.
A humorous evening with works by Hugo Wolf, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Georg Kreisler u. a.
The Viennese Kaffeehaus is an institution. One of a kind. A place you visit not only to drink coffee, but above all to meet people, observe people, spend time and find inspiration. The characters you meet in the Kaffeehaus are as diverse as life itself - sometimes in love, sometimes lonely, sometimes successful, sometimes failed, sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes disappointed... And where do all the threads in the Kaffeehaus come together? The maître d', who knows everyone and everything, pulling the strings in the background.
In this entertaining recital, we meet all these characters and their stories in songs from Hugo Wolf to Georg Kreisler - charmingly and captivatingly performed by artists who are well known to the IHWA, but who now show their humorous and tongue-in-cheek side here: Hagar Sharvit, Mikhail Timoshenko and Elitsa Desseva. Director Nikolaus Büchel - a native of Vienna who is also well known in Stuttgart - gives the whole thing a cabaret twist. And in the end, it remains to be seen whether Georg Kreisler is right...
A long overdue debut at the IHWA: soprano Julia Kleiter is in demand all over the world as an opera and song interpreter with a correspondingly busy schedule. Consequently, it took a few attempts. But good things come to those who wait, and now we can finally welcome the charming singer from Limburg to Stuttgart! Art song at its finest awaits us at this gallery concert, which Julia Kleiter will perform with pianist Marcelo Amaral.
Songs by Clara Schumann, Florence Price, Richard Strauss, Johannes Brahms, George Crumb and others
Munich, Salzburg, Zurich, Milan, New York - these are just some of the stops on Golda Schultz's impressive CV. After joining the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera, she embarked on an impressive international career. With her incomparable, shimmering golden soprano, Golda Schultz not only captures the hearts of opera audiences. She is particularly fond of Art song, especially repertoire that goes beyond the usual repertoire. This is also impressively demonstrated in her IHWA debut concert, for which pianist Jonathan Ware finally returns to Stuttgart.
Dream and nightmare often lie close together, the transition is fluid. The range of human dreams, the juxtaposition of supreme happiness and anxiety-fuelled nightmares fascinated and inspired poets and composers alike, especially in the late 19th century. In their programme Träume / Alpträume, baritone Andrè Schuen and pianist Daniel Heide embark on a tightrope walk between dream and nightmare, which promises to be a dreamlike musical experience!
Songs and duets by Schumann, Brahms, Chausson, Viardot and others
Duets are a rarity in recital programmes, as it is usually only one singer who performs a recital. So there is double the pleasure in this special programme, which features a reunion with the wonderful soprano Katharina Konradi and Ammiel Bushakevitz at the piano. The two of them are bringing the Scottish mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison to Stuttgart as the third member of the ensemble, so that the programme of this gallery concert will include not only solo songs but also duet repertoire that is performed far too rarely.
Following the two concerts that took place under the title ‘The blind spot’ as part of the Schwetzingen Festival 2025, Julian Prégardien's exploration of the theme of ‘Goethe and women’ continues. After all, Goethe's long and passionate life provides plenty of material for further programmes that look behind the ‘blind spot’ of history and provide a glimpse of important women in Goethe's life and work.
The members of the International Opera Studio present a programme of songs in the foyer of the opera house, accompanied by Vlad Iftinca on the piano. Mentor and interpretation coach: Véronique Gens
Advance ticket sales begin on 14 July 2025 via the opera house.
Thinking of Mörike settings, Hugo Wolf immediately springs to mind. After all, he left behind true masterpieces in his 53 Mörike songs. However, it is hardly known that the French composer Pauline Viardot also wrote a dozen fantastic Mörike songs. Now these Mörike songs will be performed for the first time as a cycle conceived by musicologist and Viardot expert Prof. Dr. Natasha Loges. In a Mörike time capsule, Dr. Gunilla Eschenbach from the DLA Marbach will present letters from Pauline Viardot from the Mörike Collection Berge alongside the newly expanded ‘Family Archive of the Schmid and Kauffmann Musician Families,’ which includes manuscripts by Tübingen University Music Director Emil Kauffmann, who was friends with both Eduard Mörike and Hugo Wolf.
Advance ticket sales for this event will begin on 1 September 2025.
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Let`s celebrate the New LiedJAHR of Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie Stuttgart. Enjoy the great performance of Alexander Grassauer (bass-baritone) and Mauro Filippo Zappala (piano) - 2nd prize International Art Song Competition 2022.
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