Schurmann/ Hamburg - Die Getreue AlcesteIn 2016, almost three hundred years after the composition of Georg Caspar Schurmann's Die getreue Alceste, Barockwerk Hamburg presented a semi scenic performance of this opera in the atrium of the Hamburg State Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture. Ira Hochman founded the ensemble Barockwerk Hamburg in 2007 with the goal of rediscovering both vocal and instrumental chamber and stage music from the Baroque era and bring it back to life.

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Keith Warner's iconic production sets the stage for Wagner's epic tale of family and power

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What is real and what is fantasy is left up to the viewer to sort out in Maddin's hypnotic

Debussy and Ravel

Mixed Choir

'On The Wagon' (as covered by the Ronettes)

a successful musician in his own right

A fairy tale grounded in poignant reality

In 1972 this album was awarded as the best album of the year