Über den Bergen (Beyond the mountains)
One of my all-time favourite songs. I have learned about it years ago, when the daughter of the poet Karl Busse (who wrote the lyrics) lived next door to us.
In February 2021 Tasso Schille from the German-Sorbian Popular Theatre in Bautzen made this recording and performed the piano part in it.
La serva scaltra
“The cunning maid” - Intermezzo by Johann Adolph Hasse, 1729
In the 18th century short and amusing „intermezzi“ were used as entertaining „fillers“ during the intermissions of bombastic baroque operas.
In 1997/98 we staged a production of such an „intermezzo“ as a minimalist stand-alone opera with the help of the Societaetstheaterverein e.V. in the studio-theatre „PODIUM“, the predecessor of today’s „Societaetstheatre Dresden“. Here you can watch a condensed version …
Stage dirction: Peter Herzog; stage design: André Bytomski, make-up artist: Anja Nickel, costumes: Staatsoperette Dresden and Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater Bautzen, musical director/harpsicord: Holger Miersch, Dorilla: Saskia Köhler, Balanzone: Olaf Plassa
Thanks to everyone involved for their consent for publication and especially to Peter Herzog for his video-version.
Eisland (Frozen country)
It all started with a concert in Dresden in 1998, where I met Götz Lindenberg for the very first time.
Three years later I got the opportunity to sing some of his songs for the CD „Spells“, which was published by Raumer Records Berlin in 2002.
My voice and my approach to vocal music have changed a lot since then, but I can still identify with these songs and I love to remember this creative time in Berlin.
Many thanks to Peter Herzog for his video-version of my favourite song from this album.