CANCELLED: Katharina Konradi / Eric Schneider

Soprano Katharina Konradi has a very special relationship with the Elbphilharmonie, and not only because she lives in Hamburg. At the 2018/19 New Year’s Concert she gave a brilliant performance as chambermaid Adele in »Die Fledermaus«. In April 2020, at the height of the Corona crisis, she sang for her fans via Internet stream. Now she returns for a song recital, this time in the Recital Hall, together with the well-known accompanist Eric Schneider on the piano.

Born and bred in Kirgisistan, Katharina Konradi studied in Munich and Berlin, and won the German Music Competition in 2016. In addition to opera and operetta, her great passion is singing Lieder. At her Elbphilharmonie recital, she performs a programme ranging from Mozart to Strauss.
 
Although Mozart is known chiefly as an opera composer, he also wrote some 40 songs, one of the best-known being his setting of Goethe’s »Das Veilchen«. But the art song had its heyday in the Romantic period, starting with the first master of the genre, Franz Schubert. In addition to well-known song cycles like »Winterreise«, Schubert also set poems from Goethe’s collection »West-Eastern Diwan« to music. Tchaikovsky’s song oeuvre in turn is marked by a particularly wide stylistic spectrum, ranging from many romances to children’s songs.