Siegfried Idyll and Wesendonck Lieder
17th and 19th August / 8.30pm
Composed by Richard Wagner | Wensendonck Lieder’s poetry by Mathilde Wesendonck
Location: The Garden Glade near Waterperry's Lily Pond
Duration: 45 minutes |
Wagner at Twilight, conducted by Bertie Baigent, is an evening concert of two of Wagner’s small-scale masterpieces, performed in the stunning natural beauty of Waterperry Gardens. This intimate concert juxtaposes music expressing the purity of nature and the turbulence of human emotion: themes which are at once contrasting and yet both intensely Wagnerian.
WESENDONCK LIEDER sets poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of one of Wagner’s patrons, and with whom Wagner may have had an affair. The passion and yearning of the texts inspired some of Wagner’s most sensuous and dramatic music, which later morphed into parts of the opera Tristan und Isolde. SIEGFRIED-IDYLL was composed by Wagner as a birthday present to his wife Cosima after the birth of their son, Siegfried. The music depicts a forest scene, and later found its way into the opera Siegfried. This production pairs perfectly with Janáček's The Diary of One Who Disappeared, which is performed in Waterperry House Ballroom at 7pm before this performance. |
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Prices
Full Price / £20 Blue Light Card Holders, and Benefits Support (NHS, DLA, UC, JSA) / £15* Under 30 / £15 Under 16 / FREE |
Attendees for The Diary of One Who Disappeared and Wagner at Twilight should note that these performances take place after the gardens have closed to the public and so access to the gardens is not possible with these tickets.
Box office opens on 11th April with Priority Booking opening on 4th April. *In 2022 we are offering discounted tickets to Blue Light Card holders and those in receipt of Benefits Support (Disability Living Allowance, Universal Credit, Jobseeker's Allowance). |
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Cast |
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Katherine Crompton
Katherine Crompton