Selected Engagements

Assistant director Isabelle Kettle • Scenography and costumes Justin Nardella • Lighting Jean Kalman • Lighting collaboration Yves Caizergues • Artistic coordination – Cultural Projects Workshop Claire Andries

Tenor Ian Bostridge • Piano Julius Drake

Production Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.
Co-production Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, 
Premiered at the Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov Studio (2024).

Deborah Warner, an internationally recognized theatre and opera director, has continued to push the boundaries of theatre and redefine the vocabulary of the stage through a body of work marked by raw energy and sharp intelligence. For the staging of Winterreise, Franz Schubert’s last great lieder cycle, she frees the performers, Ian Bostridge, a long-time enthusiast of this cycle and author of a fascinating and captivating book – “Schubert’s Winter Journey – Anatomy of an Obsession”, and Julius Drake, a key musician of the Lundis Musicaux de l’Athénée, from the constraints of a traditional recital to offer them a much wider range of artistic and scenic acting. A deeply moving work, a striking theatrical and musical experience.

Assistant director Isabelle Kettle • Scenography and costumes Justin Nardella • Lighting Jean Kalman • Lighting collaboration Yves Caizergues • Artistic coordination – Cultural Projects Workshop Claire Andries

Tenor Ian Bostridge • Piano Julius Drake

Production Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.
Co-production Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, 
Premiered at the Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov Studio (2024).

Deborah Warner, an internationally recognized theatre and opera director, has continued to push the boundaries of theatre and redefine the vocabulary of the stage through a body of work marked by raw energy and sharp intelligence. For the staging of Winterreise, Franz Schubert’s last great lieder cycle, she frees the performers, Ian Bostridge, a long-time enthusiast of this cycle and author of a fascinating and captivating book – “Schubert’s Winter Journey – Anatomy of an Obsession”, and Julius Drake, a key musician of the Lundis Musicaux de l’Athénée, from the constraints of a traditional recital to offer them a much wider range of artistic and scenic acting. A deeply moving work, a striking theatrical and musical experience.

Assistant director Isabelle Kettle • Scenography and costumes Justin Nardella • Lighting Jean Kalman • Lighting collaboration Yves Caizergues • Artistic coordination – Cultural Projects Workshop Claire Andries

Tenor Ian Bostridge • Piano Julius Drake

Production Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.
Co-production Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, 
Premiered at the Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov Studio (2024).

Deborah Warner, an internationally recognized theatre and opera director, has continued to push the boundaries of theatre and redefine the vocabulary of the stage through a body of work marked by raw energy and sharp intelligence. For the staging of Winterreise, Franz Schubert’s last great lieder cycle, she frees the performers, Ian Bostridge, a long-time enthusiast of this cycle and author of a fascinating and captivating book – “Schubert’s Winter Journey – Anatomy of an Obsession”, and Julius Drake, a key musician of the Lundis Musicaux de l’Athénée, from the constraints of a traditional recital to offer them a much wider range of artistic and scenic acting. A deeply moving work, a striking theatrical and musical experience.

Assistant director Isabelle Kettle • Scenography and costumes Justin Nardella • Lighting Jean Kalman • Lighting collaboration Yves Caizergues • Artistic coordination – Cultural Projects Workshop Claire Andries

Tenor Ian Bostridge • Piano Julius Drake

Production Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.
Co-production Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, 
Premiered at the Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov Studio (2024).

Deborah Warner, an internationally recognized theatre and opera director, has continued to push the boundaries of theatre and redefine the vocabulary of the stage through a body of work marked by raw energy and sharp intelligence. For the staging of Winterreise, Franz Schubert’s last great lieder cycle, she frees the performers, Ian Bostridge, a long-time enthusiast of this cycle and author of a fascinating and captivating book – “Schubert’s Winter Journey – Anatomy of an Obsession”, and Julius Drake, a key musician of the Lundis Musicaux de l’Athénée, from the constraints of a traditional recital to offer them a much wider range of artistic and scenic acting. A deeply moving work, a striking theatrical and musical experience.

Assistant director Isabelle Kettle • Scenography and costumes Justin Nardella • Lighting Jean Kalman • Lighting collaboration Yves Caizergues • Artistic coordination – Cultural Projects Workshop Claire Andries

Tenor Ian Bostridge • Piano Julius Drake

Production Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.
Co-production Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, 
Premiered at the Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov Studio (2024).

Deborah Warner, an internationally recognized theatre and opera director, has continued to push the boundaries of theatre and redefine the vocabulary of the stage through a body of work marked by raw energy and sharp intelligence. For the staging of Winterreise, Franz Schubert’s last great lieder cycle, she frees the performers, Ian Bostridge, a long-time enthusiast of this cycle and author of a fascinating and captivating book – “Schubert’s Winter Journey – Anatomy of an Obsession”, and Julius Drake, a key musician of the Lundis Musicaux de l’Athénée, from the constraints of a traditional recital to offer them a much wider range of artistic and scenic acting. A deeply moving work, a striking theatrical and musical experience.

Assistant director Isabelle Kettle • Scenography and costumes Justin Nardella • Lighting Jean Kalman • Lighting collaboration Yves Caizergues • Artistic coordination – Cultural Projects Workshop Claire Andries

Tenor Ian Bostridge • Piano Julius Drake

Production Centre International de Créations Théâtrales / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.
Co-production Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, 
Premiered at the Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov Studio (2024).

Deborah Warner, an internationally recognized theatre and opera director, has continued to push the boundaries of theatre and redefine the vocabulary of the stage through a body of work marked by raw energy and sharp intelligence. For the staging of Winterreise, Franz Schubert’s last great lieder cycle, she frees the performers, Ian Bostridge, a long-time enthusiast of this cycle and author of a fascinating and captivating book – “Schubert’s Winter Journey – Anatomy of an Obsession”, and Julius Drake, a key musician of the Lundis Musicaux de l’Athénée, from the constraints of a traditional recital to offer them a much wider range of artistic and scenic acting. A deeply moving work, a striking theatrical and musical experience.

Günther Groissböck, bass
Julius Drake, piano

In this matinee recital, enjoy a rare Carnegie Hall appearance by Austrian bass Günther Groissböck, one of the world’s leading opera and lied singers. Accompanied by the exemplary Julius Drake, Groissböck performs selected works—including some rarities—by 19th-century master composers of song, including R. Schumann, Rott, Bruckner, Wolf, G. Mahler, and R. Strauss. The opportunity to witness this extraordinary singer—recently called “a revelation” at the Metropolitan Opera (The New York Times)—in his Zankel Hall recital debut is not to be missed.
Part of: Great Singers II: Jula Goldwurm Pure Voice Series

Program
R. SCHUMANN “Blondels Lied,” Op. 53, No. 1
R. SCHUMANN “Die feindlichen Brüder,” Op. 49, No. 2
R. SCHUMANN “Belsatzar,” Op. 57
R. SCHUMANN “Die beiden Grenadiere,” Op. 49, No. 1

ROTT “Der Sänger”
ROTT “Geistergruß”
ROTT “Wanderers Nachtlied”

BRUCKNER “Im April,” WAB 75
BRUCKNER “Herbstkummer,” WAB 72
BRUCKNER “Mein Herz und deine Stimme,” WAB 79

WOLF Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo

R. STRAUSS “Heimliche Aufforderung,” Op. 27, No. 3
R. STRAUSS “Zueignung,” Op. 10, No. 1
R. STRAUSS “Allerseelen,” Op. 10, No. 8
R. STRAUSS “Befreit,” Op. 39, No. 4

G. MAHLER Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Günther Groissböck, bass
Julius Drake, piano

A commanding presence on the opera stage and a recitalist of the highest order, Austrian bass Günther Groissböck owns a voice of exceptional richness and warmth. His programme with regular duo partner Julius Drake includes Brahms’s late take on life’s transience and Shostakovich’s symphonic song cycle, first performed eight months before the composer’s death 50 years ago.

Programme

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
4 Serious Songs Op. 121

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)
Liederkreis Op. 39

INTERVAL

HANS PFITZNER (1869-1949)
4 Lieder Op. 32

DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti Op. 145