York Höller - Der Meister und Margarita
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In 1989 York Höller composed Der Meister und Margarita, an opera in two acts, which was premiered on May 20, 1989, in the Palais Garnier of the Opéra de Paris, the biggest opera building in the world where is situated the famous story of Le fantôme de l'opéra.
Der Meister und Margarita by York Höller would be the last opera performed in the Palais Garnier, since the opera company would move to the Opéra de la Bastille after this performance. In this video, which is an excerpt of the news of the French television channel Antenne 2, is paid as much attention to the removal of the opera performances as to Höller's opera. Besides excerpts of the opera, you will also see interviews with Michel Philippe, bariton, and Jean-Louis Soumanias, bass.
On November 1, 1991, the opera had its German premiere in the famous Opernhaus in Cologne. Both the performance in Paris and in Cologne were conducted by Lothar Zagrosek.
More reading
Siglind Bruhn, full-time researcher in 20th century musicology at the Institu-te for the Humanities of the University of Michigan and “chercheur perma-nent” on the Institut d’esthétique des arts contemporains of the Sorbonne, made a comparative study of the opera's of York Höller, Rainer Kunad and Sergey Slonimsky.
Siglind Bruhn's study is downloadable in the archives section
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