Symphoniker im Foyer

In the stylish ambience of the Düsseldorf opera foyer, members of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra explore well-known and unknown masterpieces of chamber music together with singers from the opera ensemble.

To mark the Day of German Unity, members of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra are dedicating themselves to the diverse voices of composers who were silenced by the National Socialists. They include works by Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann, who together did not lose their creativity even in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, as well as the Austrian Eric Zeisl, who, like many other artists, was able to make his way into exile in America just in time. There he also met Kurt Weill, who managed to completely reinvent himself in America. The program concludes with works by Erwin Schulhoff, the Bohemian composer whose incredibly diverse oeuvre, ranging from religious songs to jazz oratorios, was almost forgotten by the National Socialists until he was rediscovered in the 1990s.//