Jochen Kowalski wrote music history as the first countertenor in the GDR and continues to thrill audiences with his outstanding voice to this day. In his concert program "Wenn die Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist, spielt weiter ...", he will present well-known and unknown works by three unique composers with the Salonorchester Unter'n Linden at Frankfurt's Kleist Forum on 2 March.
Including the "Lieder des Narren" by Engelbert Humperdinck, which he wrote in 1907 for Max Reinhardt's production of Shakespeare's comedy "Was Ihr wollt", from which the title quote "Wenn die Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist, spielt weiter..." ("When the music of love is food, play on...") originates. The program also includes some of Edvard Grieg's most popular pieces from "Peer Gynt" as well as music from the melodrama "The Nightingale" by Austrian composer Arnold Winternitz, based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen.
Jochen Kowalski, born in 1954, began his career at the Komische Oper Berlin. Guest appearances have taken him to the most important opera houses in Germany as well as to the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper, the Opéra national de Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Japan and for several seasons to the Metropolitan Opera New York. In November 2022, he retired from the opera stage - but not from singing - and has since dedicated himself to the genre of concert melodrama.
Further information
Sunday, 02.03.2025, 15:00, Kleist Forum
Wenn die Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist, spielt weiter...
Singing, narrator: Jochen Kowalski
Music: Salonorchester Unter'n Linden of the Staatskapelle Berlin and guests
Tickets: 25,- / 12,50 € (price group 1) 20,- / 10, - € (price group 2)
Family ticket: 62,50 / 50,- €
Tickets at www.kleistforum.de