Triple Bill

Mahler X Three Masters

MacMillan / Béjart / Cranko
Triple Bill

Mahler X Three Masters

MacMillan / Béjart / Cranko
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Premiere
Mahler X Three Masters
Wed 15. Jan / 19:00
Opernhaus
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Mahler X Three Masters
Thu 16. Jan / 19:00
Opernhaus
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Mahler X Three Masters
Sat 18. Jan / 19:00
Opernhaus
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Mahler X Three Masters
Sat 1. Feb / 19:00
Opernhaus
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Mahler X Three Masters
Thu 6. Feb / 19:00
Opernhaus
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Mahler X Three Masters
Fri 14. Feb / 19:00
Opernhaus
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Mahler X Three Masters
Wed 19. Feb / 19:00
Opernhaus
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Mahler X Three Masters
Wed 26. Feb / 19:00
Opernhaus
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Mahler X Three Masters
Sun 2. Mar / 14:00
Opernhaus
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Mahler X Three Masters
Sun 2. Mar / 19:00
Opernhaus
Further dates
Mahler X Three Masters
Musical Direction
Mikhail Agrest /Wolfgang Heinz, Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Song of the Earth
Choreography
Kenneth MacMillan
Music
Gustav Mahler
Light
John B. Read
World Premiere
7. November 1965, Stuttgarter Ballett
Tenor
Airam Hernández / Mihails Culpajevs
Mezzo-soprano
Anna Werle / Claudia Huckle
Songs of a Wayfarer
Choreography
Maurice Béjart
Music
Gustav Mahler
World Premiere
11. März 1971, Ballet du XXe siècle
Stuttgart Premiere
25. April 1976
Baritone
Pawel Konik/ Yannick Debus/ Michael Wilmering
Excerpt of Traces
Choreography
John Cranko
Music
Gustav Mahler
Stage and Costume
Jürgen Rose
World Premiere
7. April 1973, Stuttgarter Ballett
Premiere of the Reconstruction
30. Juni 2023, Stuttgarter Ballett
Duration
Song of the Earth: 60 Minutes
Intermission: ca. 20 Minutes
Songs of a Wayfarer: 20 Minutes
Intermission: ca. 25 Minutes
Excerpt of Traces: 15 Minutes
Gustav Mahler's music allows us to look into the depths of the soul. The works of the famous German composer bear witness to a time of extremes: the world at the end of the 19th century, full of progress on the one hand and misery on the other. The triple bill MAHLER X THREE MASTERS brings the composer together with three masters of dance. In Song of the Earth, created for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965, Kenneth MacMillan traces the cycle of life to Mahler's eponymous orchestral song cycle. Maurice Béjart's Songs of a Wayfarer follows a man on his travels. Always present at his side is a messenger of death - or is it his guardian angel? John Cranko created Traces during the Cold War in 1973; it was one of his last works before his untimely death at age 45. To Mahler's unfinished 10th Symphony, Cranko created his most political piece, depicting the struggle of a refugee - who has survived the horrors of an authoritarian regime and incarceration in its death camps – to acclimate to her new life in a free and modern society. More than 50 years after its world premiere, the piece has, sadly, lost none of its topicality.

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