Obra: Je ne t'aime pas

Les deux chanteuses ont proposé un panorama innovant des sept péchés capitaux à travers les styles et les cultures, avec la complicité unificatrice de Julius Drake au piano.

Two of the world’s most sought-after opera singers giving Lieder recitals on the same night. The kind of painful choice which Viennese musical institutions and their chaotic schedules throw up all too regularly. I went for Nina Stemme over Jonas Kaufmann on the basis that she gives fewer solo recitals, despite harbouring reservations about how her big voice would fare in this repertoire.