Nina Stemme and Johannes Martin Kränzle are the soloists in dramatic production of Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle, conducted by Music Director Jaap van Zweden. Also on the program is an equally dark work composed in the same year: Schoenberg’s apprehensive monodrama Erwartung. Alec Baldwin is your host on The New York Philharmonic This Week.
Bluebeard’s Castle
Nina Stemme as Isolde for the Met Opera
Playlist
Arnold Schoenberg (arr. Voice and Harp by L. Stephenson / S. Lundberg): Erwartung (Expectation), from Vier Lieder, Op. 2
Katarina Karneus, mezzo-soprano; Nancy Allen, harp
Arnold Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17
Katarina Karneus, mezzo-soprano
Béla Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle
Katarina Karneus, speaker; Nina Stemme, soprano; Johannes Martin Kränzle, baritone