Interview
Christian Gerhaher in conversation with Martin Heinze Kirill Petrenko conducts Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”
“Strong, zealous, even evil and angry and dark” – this is how Felix Mendelssohn imagined the biblical prophet Elijah, the protagonist of his oratorio of the same name. Full of drama, the composer portrays a man who struggles to convert the people to the true faith – in vain, as he is forced to realise at the end. Under the direction of Kirill Petrenko, the distinguished baritone Christian Gerhaher takes on the role of Elijah.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko
Elsa Dreisig
Wiebke Lehmkuhl
Daniel Behle
Christian Gerhaher
Rundfunkchor Berlin
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