Tonight, exactly 20 years since the death of French composer Gérard Grisey, "ensemble paradigme" starts a concert series with his music. The series includes concerts in Weimar, Hamburg and Munich over the whole concert season. Tonight's concert consist of music by Grisey and his former student Jörn Arnecke who will talk about his collaboration with Grisey. All concerts will include a work introduction held by musicologist Florence Eller.
Today Vitali Alekseenok conducts new premiere of Udo Zimmermann’s opera “Weisse Rose“ which takes place in the theatre Belvedere Weimar. Opera describes last minutes of life and feelings of Hans and Sophie Scholl who has been the main participants of the Munich anti-Nazi resistance group „Weisse Rose“.
Within the German-Ukrainian project “Music overcomes walls” Vitali Alekseenok made his Ukrainian opera debut, have conducting Mozart´s “Don Giovanni” with Luhansk Philharmonic Orchestra and soloists of leading European theaters in the war region of Eastern Ukraine in Severodonetsk.