Hindemith, part II
Elbert, Lonquich

Anna-Lena Elbert, soprano

Alexander Lonquich, piano

Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)

Das Marienleben, Part II

Concert with surtitles in the original language and in Italian

40’ | Ticket €10

As the day fades into evening, the journey through Paul Hindemith’s Das Marienleben reaches its culmination in the majestic Teatro Sociale. Hindemith and Rainer Maria Rilke lead the listener into the deepest realms of pain and transcendence: the Passion, the Pietà, the vertiginous silence that follows loss.

The musical language becomes increasingly tense and essential; dynamics are pushed to extremes, while the dialogue between voice and piano grows more urgent, necessary—almost as if two presences were sustaining each other in darkness.

This is not music that consoles; it is music that accompanies, that remains beside suffering and moves through it without turning away. And yet, precisely within this abyss, Hindemith finds something that transcends pain and transforms it into a beauty destined to endure. After the light of the early songs, the full human and spiritual power of this extraordinary musical fresco emerges.

The experience is made even more immersive by an innovative listening space, where the audience is seated directly on stage, inside the sonic scene itself, to experience the music from within, in a total and close-up dimension of listening.

Rilke’s texts will also be projected on screen in Italian translation, accompanying the audience through the poetic intensity of the work.

Text by Giada De Sio