This first staged adaptation of the novel by Belarusian-born writer Sasha Filipenko tells the story of Peter Nesterenko, an officer in the anti-Bolshevik White Guard who, after a long period of emigration at the beginning of the 20th century, made a deal with the Soviet authorities and returned to his homeland. It is a story about forgiveness and the [...]
This first staged adaptation of the novel by Belarusian-born writer Sasha Filipenko tells the story of Peter Nesterenko, an officer in the anti-Bolshevik White Guard who, after a long period of emigration at the beginning of the 20th century, made a deal with the Soviet authorities and returned to his homeland. It is a story about forgiveness and the [...]
Mozart's unfinished Requiem touches us with its stirring drama, its deep melancholy and its comforting soulfulness. Not least because of the partly mysterious story of its composition, which is linked to Mozart's own death, it is surrounded by an air of mystery and a transcendental aura. Together with the Chamber Choir Ireland, the Irish Chamber Orchestra under Thomas Zehetmair brings Mozart's [...]
In their project Róisín Reimagined, singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and the Irish Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Cormac McCarthy conjure up old musical traditions and bring them into the present day: Muireann's incomparable singing, which makes her one of the leading interpreters of Irish music, meets new orchestral arrangements of sean-nós songs. Sean-nós (Irish for "old style") refers to [...]
