With the musica viva concert series, Karl Amadeus Hartmann created a stage for music that had been banned during the Nazi era, starting in 1945. To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, soprano Stephanie Krug has launched a new music theatre project with the same intention. Under the title ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ (The Song of the Earth) Degenerate Music in the Nazi Era, compositions and texts that were considered ‘degenerate’ during the Nazi era are performed. Compositions by Fanny Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Max Bruch and others, as well as texts by Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Heinar Kipphardt and many others, will be performed and interpreted by actor Stefan Wilkening, dancer Alberto Pagani and the ensemble così facciamo, directed by Martina Veh.

The project will premiere on Wednesday, 19 November at 7:30 p.m. at the Kurhaus Bad Tölz. There will be another performance on Sunday, 23 November at 4 p.m. at the ‘Bergson Kunstkraftwerk’ in Munich, before it goes on tour throughout Germany.

The events are sponsored by the Bavarian Cultural Fund.

For the event in Bad Tölz: https://kurhaus-badtoelz.com/veranstaltungen/das-lied-von-der-erde/

For the event in Munich: https://bergson.com/event/das-lied-von-der-erde

More about the project: https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/panorama/sopranistin-aus-oberbayern-startet-projekt-%C3%BCber-entartete-musik-unterst%C3%BCtzer-bis-aus-monaco-und-new-york/ar-AA1PrfO2