Romantic Duets
German and French Romantic duets by Felix Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy, César Franck, Peter Cornelius, Camille Saint-Saëns, Anton
Rubinstein and Carl Millöcker.
“As a singing duo, after
twenty years of making music together
we have chosen a repertoire
that can most clearly bring to life
our shared experience: these duets are
house music in the very best sense;
music and lyrics that resist
any self-indulgent over-interpretation
and gain their depth through
simplicity and honesty.
The fact that, alongside our musical
partnership, our personal
connection also resonates through the music is intentional and
ideally audible and palpable.
Furthermore, some of the works in
this form have scarcely – and the grand, highly entertaining Millöcker duet has
never – appeared on recorded media. We hope that these little musical
treasures reach their audience in their purest form: from mouth to ear, from heart to
heart.”
Monica Theiss-Eröd,
Adrian Eröd
Spring Fever
The recordings for “Ich und Du” at the
Liszt Centre in Raiding instantly
put the whole team in a spring-like mood
despite the autumnal
weather outside.
When two people know each other so well
it is also a particularly inspiring experience
for the producer.
Artistic decisions and personal
aspects merge into musical
moments that flow wonderfully into
the recording. This
recording opens windows and
doors to this private spring for the listener!
Andreas Rathammer, Producer
Monica Theiss-Eröd, Soprano
The soprano Monica Theiss-Eröd studied
at the University of Music and Performing
Arts in Vienna with Rotraud Hansmann and KS
Walter Berry. In 1993
she won 3rd
prize at the
‘Jugend musiziert’ competition.
Since 1990 she has appeared as a
soloist at venues including
the Vienna
Volksoper, the Vienna State Opera and at the
Mozart Festival in Schönbrunn in various
roles. As Papagena, the First and Second Boys
(The Magic Flute), Blondchen (The Abduction
from the Seraglio) and Barbarina (The Marriage
of Figaro), Ännchen (Der Freischütz, C.M.
von Weber) and Giulia (La Scala di Seta,
G. Rossini).
Monica Theiss-Eröd regularly performs
recitals and concerts, including the
St John Passion (J.S. Bach), Handel’s
Messiah, A German Requiem (J. Brahms),
W.A. Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Requiem and
Mass in C minor, and at the Maribor Festival
Vivaldi’s Gloria.
From 2007 to 2009, she was engaged at the Stadttheater
Klagenfurt as a Naiad in the opera Ariadne
on Naxos (R. Strauss) and as Cupid and
Athena in L’incoronazione di Poppea
(C. Monteverdi). At the Vienna
Operetta Summer in 2009, she sang with great
success as Pepi in Wiener Blut (J. Strauss) and
in 2010 as Valencienne in The Merry Widow (F.
Lehár). Since then, she has appeared in recitals
and concerts with renowned artists
such as Daniel Ottensamer, Eduard Kutrowatz,
Barbara Moser, Margarete Babinsky and
her husband Adrian Eröd.
Adrian Eröd, baritone
Since his debut in 2001 at the Vienna
State Opera, the young Austrian
has been delighting audiences
at his home theatre, the Vienna State Opera,
and internationally
, as well as the press
, with
his versatility as
a singer.
Whether as Figaro
in Rossini’s The Barber
of Seville or as
Valentin in Gounod’s
Faust, as Billy Budd
or as Lescaut in Massenet’s Manon.
Under Christian Thielemann, he sang the
role of Beckmesser in Wagner’s The Mastersingers
of Nuremberg with such resounding
success that he was invited by the Bayreuth
to perform this role
on the Green Hill as well.
Since then, he has also appeared as Beckmesser
in Zurich, Cologne, Leipzig, Tokyo and
Amsterdam. His portrayal of Loge
in the Vienna production of Wagner’s
Rheingold also caused an international
sensation, and at the Bregenz Festival
he enjoyed sensational success as
Shylock in the world premiere of André
Tchaikovsky’s “The Merchant of Venice”.
Alongside his work on the
opera stage, Eröd is also highly successful on the
concert stage. He has
sung under Riccardo Muti with the Vienna
Philharmonic, with Sir Simon Rattle and
the Berlin Philharmonic, and under Nikolaus
Harnoncourt’s “St Matthew Passion”.
As a lieder singer, Adrian Eröd, for whom this
art form is particularly close to his heart, has so far
performed at venues including the Vienna and Graz
Musikverein, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the
Liszt Centre in Raiding, the Tokyo Spring
Festival and the Carinthian Summer in