“Amopera” with Needcompany and Klangforum in Hong Kong, South Korea and Vienna
From March 19, Holger Falk will be touring Asia with “Amopera – a dystopian ballad”.
The performative meta-opera with works by Luciano Berio, Alban Berg, Harrison Birtwistle, Benjamin Britten, Peter Maxwell Davies, Beat Furrer, Sara Glojnarić, Bernhard Lang, Rebecca Saunders, Salvatore Sciarrino, Michael Wertmüller, Iannis Xenakis and Alexander von Zemlinsky will be performed in Hong Kong on March 19 and in Daegu (South Korea) on March 22 and 23.

Performers: Klangforum Wien, Tim Anderson (conductor), Needcompany, Jan Lauwers (director), Paul Blackmann (performer), Holger Falk (baritone), Maarten Seghers (performer), Sarah Maria Sun (soprano), Grace Tjang (performer)

On May 11, “Amopera” will be performed with the same cast at the Wiener Konzerthaus.

Photo (c) Valerie Maltseva

Holger Falk’s current CD “Georges Auric: Mélodies et Chansons” is on the longlist for the German Record Critics‘ Award.

Schubert and Eisler at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
On February 5, Holger sang a recital at the venerable Library of Congress in Washington D.C. together with Steffen Schleiermacher. The program consisted of selected songs by Hanns Eisler and Franz Schubert. The Coolidge Auditorium was transformed into a salon for an evening of political and socially critical songs that have probably never before been heard at the center of American democracy.
In spring 2025, the Library of Congress will celebrate 100 years of concerts in the library.

Il gondoliere veneziano in Florida, New York City and Connecticut
Together with the ensemble nuovo aspetto, Holger Falk performed the program “Il gondoliere veneziano” three times in the USA in February:
On February 7 in Jacksonville/Florida, on February 9 as part of the Corpus Christi Church-Ancient music festival “music before 1800” in New York City and on February 11 in the auditorium of the University of Connecticut – where Holger Falk also gave a master class for students on February 10.