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Event Series Event Series: A Winter’s Journey

A Winter’s Journey

July 16, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

$40 – $49
Presented by Musica Viva Australia, tenor Allan Clayton and pianist Kate Golla perform Schubert’s immortal songs of love and loss, newly reinterpreted for Australia through Lindy Hume’s direction and Fred Williams’ wondrous landscape paintings.
About the concert

In 1827 Franz Schubert composed an emotionally charged song cycle. Setting poems of the German writer Wilhelm Müller, Schubert created an emotional journey of a man trekking across frozen rivers and snowy landscapes, lamenting his lost love. It is indeed a winter’s journey (Winterreise), full of images and metaphors of love, loss, nationhood.

A Winter’s Journey is a new staging by Musica Viva Australia of Schubert’s iconic songs, bringing a very different winter into focus, set against a backdrop of Australian painter Fred Willliams’ vivid landscapes.

Acclaimed stage director Lindy Hume is our cartographer, mapping the terrain of heart and country for the gripping stage charisma of English tenor Allan Clayton and sensitive musicianship of Australian pianist Kate Golla. Videographer Dave Bergman provides the backdrop, bringing to life 24 Williams paintings that match and contradict Müller’s poems and Schubert’s musical imagination, all in gorgeous larger-than-life imagery.

This powerful artistic combination sets the perfect conditions to experience Schubert’s immortal masterpiece – songs of love and loss that still speak to us vividly, in this far distant time and place.

Saturday 16 & Tuesday 19 July 2022 7pm, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall

Duration: 1 hour 15 mins (no interval)

TICKETS: Standard $49, Under 40 $40

Family of Four $100 (2 adults + 2 children OR 1 adult + 3 children)

Season Packages available now from Musica Viva.

Details

Date:
July 16, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Series:
Cost:
$40 – $49
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Venue

Melbourne Recital Centre
Southbank Boulevard
Melbourne, VIC 3004 Australia
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Phone
03 9699 3333