Hans Thomalla
Portait Concert with Alarm Will Sound
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Courtney Orlando, Violin
Alan Pierson, Conductor
Harmoniemusik and Air at University of Chicago Presents
October 24, 7.30pm, Logan Center for the Arts
Third Coast Lullaby Recording by Blow Up Percussion
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Live Recording, Rom, Festival of the Academies, Macro Museum, June 6th 2025
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Opera in 13 Scenes
Text by the composer and Juliana Spahr after Johann Wolfgang Goethes "Elective Affinities"
Song Lyrics by Joshua Clover
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"Musically and dramaturgically an absolutely convincing evening."
"Opera at the cutting edge as it is rarely found".
Deutschlandfunk
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"A very, very important piece."
SWR
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"Since opera is a genre about individually pronounced changes in one's condition, it must be interested in dementia. There aren't many examples for this yet, but Hans Thomalla's "Dark Fall" will be a decisive one."
Frankfurter Rundschau
"Extremely touching!"
Deutschlandfunk
"Estelle Kruger is with both her wonderfully rich soprano for which Thomalla has written the most beautiful emphatic melodies as well as with her performance as Ellen the center of the show."
Die Deutsche Bühne
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"A close relative of "Dark Spring", only darker, more melancholic, more nervous, in a word: more existential."
Opernwelt
Dark Fall
Nationaltheater Mannheim
(Video von Thimeo Hehl)