Upcoming lecture recitals
Special event: Wednesday, 1. July 2026, 20 h, Neuköllner Oper (Karl-Marx-Straße 131 - 133, 12043 Berlin)Viktor Ullmann's opera The Emperor of Atlantis or The Refusal of Death, facsimile edition
Ullmann's one act opera was composed and prepared for performance in Theresienstadt Ghetto, but the performance finally didn't take place. Although both the composer and his librettist were murdered in Auschwitz, the documents relating to the work were saved. This paved the way for the premiere in Amsterdam in 1975 and a definitive production by Winfried Radeke at the Neuköllner Oper in 1989. A facsimile volume - published by Bärenreiter and the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel - has just been released, making the surviving source materials available in brilliant print quality. Editor Heidy Zimmermann is coming to Berlin to present this lavish volume; her talk will be complemented by a panel discussion with Winfried Radeke and Albrecht Dümling.
The singers Gesine Nowakowsky and Andreas Joksch perform excerpts from the opera, accompanied by Hans-Peter Kirchberg (piano) and Olaf Taube (drums); Hans-Peter Kirchberg plays a movement from one of Ullmann's sonatas.
Tickets at Neuköllner Oper: [www.neukoellneroper.de/performance/der-kaiser-von-atlantis/]
Following lecture recitals
(176) Thursday, 15. October 2026: Expelled from Germany, a continued career in Japan and the USA. The composer and conductor Joseph Rosenstock (1895-1985)
(177) Thursday, 17. December 2026: Persecution in West and East: Gustav Lewin and Lev Abeliovich
Entrance fee: 8 Euros
Reservations: Konzerthaus Berlin [www.konzerthaus.de]
Tel.: (030) 20309 - 2101
