Concerts
Okka von der Damerau / Levi Hammer
Sunday, 09/03/2025 / 07:30 PM - 09:45 PM / Laeiszhalle (Kleiner Saal)
- from 17.00€ to 49.00€
Hamburg-born, internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Okka von der Damerau and US conductor and pianist Levi Hammer met during a production of »Tristan und Isolde« in Los Angeles. It was there that the desire arose to meet artistically in Hamburg with a song recital. Johannes Brahms wrote many of his 200 songs for the alto Hermine Spies, who was famous throughout Europe in the late 20th century. She was only 36 years old and died shortly after her wedding and retreat into private life. Inspired by the songs dedicated to Hermine Spies and performed for the first time, the programme combines Brahms’ songs with Richard Wagner’s »Wesendonck Lieder« and is thus dedicated to the inexhaustible source of inspiration of unfulfilled love and longing.
PERFORMERS
Okka von der Damerau mezzo-soprano
Levi Hammer piano
PROGRAM
»Von ewiger Liebe«
Songs by Johannes Brahms
Richard Wagner
Fünf Gedichte für Frauenstimme und Klavier »Wesendonck-Lieder« WWV 91A
The concert takes place with an intermission.
All statements without guarantee.
