German Art Song Festival

The Castleton Theater House will host a German Art Song Festival in April, featuring the most significant ‘Lieder’ Cycles ever written.

Three performances are performed by three-time Grammy award-winner opera singer Michelle DeYoung, baritone Theo Hoffman and tenor Ian Koziara. Bradley Moore, Metropolitan Opera pianist and conductor, renowned collaborative pianist and vocal coach, will play in all three cycles.

► Sunday, April 10, 4 p.m.:

Schubert’s Winterreise (Winter Journey) in the hands of a great artist is a transporting experience. Few female interpreters sing this passionate anti-odyssey of a rejected male lover. Three-time Grammy award winner and Metropolitan Opera Star Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano, casts a new light on this beloved cycle of 24 songs.

► Saturday, April 16, 4 p.m.:

Die schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Maiden of the Mill), is the full Romantic life in one song cycle. Among the most versatile and refined young singers of his generation, baritone Theo Hoffman lends his voice to the young

journeyman miller and his companion, the little brook.

► Sunday, April 24, 4 p.m.: Die schöne Magelone (The Fair Magelone) by Brahms, is the quintessential song cycle of the Romantic Period. Charismatic tenor Ian Koziara embodies the young knight with his extreme outbursts of emotion and restrained contemplation. Actress Dietlinde Turban Maazel’s narration of Tieck’s ‘Wondrous Love Story’ guides the listener to experience the external and internal events of the story and highlights the dramatic and emotional settings of the songs.

Tickets can be purchased at castleton.simpletix.com.