Name: An Italian Songbook
Start: 2021-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: St George's Hall Concert Room

Organization

Stage director

Jeremy Sams

Louise Shephard

Pianist

Christopher Glynn

Singer

Baritone

Roderick Williams

Soprano

Rowan Pierce

Mezzo-soprano

Kathryn Rudge

Tenor

James Way

Robert Murray

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

English

An Italian Songbook

Liverpool

United Kingdom

St George's Hall Concert Room

An Italian Songbook: Concert

Public

Concert

Anna-Maria Gkouni

Approved

For his final masterpiece, Hugo Wolf looked south – to Italy – and produced a collection of tiny jewel-like songs that paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of village life. The men and women of his Italian Songbook fall in and out of love, with squabbles and petty jealousies heard alongside serenades and love songs of great beauty. Darker undercurrents also occasionally emerge in a songbook that Wolf filled with humour and charm, sarcasm and tenderness, delight and despair.

Like Mozart, Wolf creates characters that are astonishingly precise, vivid and detailed, but also somehow universal. And his tiny scenes of village life paint a bigger picture too: a whole world of human frailty, passion and pain. 

Roderick Williams heads his hand-picked cast in this magical new dramatization – taking the songs as a starting point to tell that story and create a whole little world. An evening of passion, friendship and heartbreak brought vividly to life by the music that Wolf called “the most perfect of all my works”.

An Italian Songbook by Various, From (2021/2021), Directed by Jeremy Sams, Louise Shephard,, St George's Hall Concert Room, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Programme, About & Synopsis

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