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Michael Hirsch
Composer

︎︎︎ Intérieur [2015]
︎︎︎ Wednesday 09/11/2022 19.30 @ Ku.Be

*1958 in Munich, +2017 in Berlin; has lived in Berlin since 1981.

Michael Hirsch was born in Munich and lived in Berlin. Hirsch’s works include chamber and vocal music, speech compositions, music for orchestra, and various types of opera and music theater. In 2003, his short opera “La Didone abbandonata” was written for the Dresden Days for Contemporary Music. In 2005, the chamber opera “Eines schönen Tages” [One Fine Day] was commissioned and premiered by the opera in Hanover and the chamber opera “Die Klage des Pleberio” was premiered in Berlin. A further short opera “Celestina im Gespräch mit sich selbst” [Celestina in Conversation With Herself] was written for the Dresden Days for Contemporary Music in 2006, and in 2007 Hirsch composed for the Stuttgart Opera “Stationendrama” [Station Drama], which was performed in a moving subway train. 2008–2009 saw the premieres of the large vocal and symphonic work “Worte Steine” [Words Stones] for baritone, choir, and large orchestra, as well as the madrigal opera “Tragicomedia”, written for the Stuttgart Neue Vocalsolisten and premiered at the ECLAT festival in Stuttgart in 2009.