Pauline's birthday party
To mark the 200th birthday of Pauline Viardot, Aurea Marston is organizing a semi-staged "Concert in Action". The concert will take place in May 2021 if funding is secured.
The French opera singer and composer Pauline Viardot (1821-1910) was one of the most versatile artists of the 19th century. At that time, it was hardly possible for women to develop their talents. Nevertheless, she made a name for herself as a singer, composer and woman of the world. As a singer, she was comparable to stars such as Adele or Netrebko, except that she obviously had a far greater vocal range than them. The meetings in her salon with famous contemporaries such as Franz Liszt or Clara and Robert Schumann must have been legendary and only begin to show what an interesting personality she must have been. As a woman of today, one always searches in vain for female role models in the past. In the case of Pauline Viardot, one is rewarded and in this project her legacy as a composer is to be fully appreciated and, above all, heard!
Aurea Marston, Cornelia Lenzin, Simona Mango and Nicolaia Marston would like to celebrate Viardot's 200th birthday with a semi-staged concert in May 2021. Her songs, duets and song arrangements will play the main role. They will be complemented by other songs and duets by composers from her circle of friends (e.g. Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt or Clara and Robert Schumann). In addition to the music, the performers also want to bring the composer's life and times to life with a great deal of humor. A light-footed staging gives the program a narrative thread and a humorous touch. The aim is to bring this wonderful music of the Romantic period to a wide audience.
In times of Corona, traditional fundraising has left the performers high and dry, which is why they looked for new ways to finance the project and started crowdfunding:
www.lokalhelden.ch/concerts
