Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez)

From the Theater an den Wien, Vienna, 2004
Pierre Boulez conducts a Triple Bill. Watch it here: https://bit.ly/PierreBoulez-TripleBill-Ensemble-Intercontemporain

Anja Silja – Pierrot
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez – conductor

Sets and Costumes by Gilles Aillaud
Lighting by Dominique Borrini

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A vocal melodrama around the Pierrot poems of Albert Giraud, Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire Op. 21, is a startling work of raw expressionism. Notorious as the most shocking atonal musical work of its time, it is scored for a small ensemble and a soprano employing Sprechgesang. Acclaimed for her acting abilities, the celebrated German singer Anja Silja takes the role of Schoenberg’s Pierrot: not simply the traditional figure of pathos but a dislocated, splintered personality who rasps out tortured and often violent fantasies.

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