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ELLA
MILCH SHERIFF
Ella Milch-Sheriff, winner of Lifetime achievement award by the Israel's composers and authors institute, winner of the Prime-minister prize, is one of Israel's most performed composers.
Ella composed 5 operas, chamber, orchestral and vocal music as well as popular music and solo works. Her music is performed widely through Europe, Israel and the US. (Israel Philharmonic , Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Bochum, Braunschweig, London, Manchester, Vienna, Stockholm, Zurich, Palermo, Boston, etc.)
Her new opera "Alma" about Alma Mahler-Werfel conducted by Omer Meir Wellber won unanimous premiere success at the Vienna Volksoper.
Opera in Five Acts
By Ella Milch-Sheriff
Libretto: Ido Ricklin
The story of Alma Mahler as never told before. She is known as the Wife, the Lover, and the Muse who inspired great artists. For years she was scorned and derided as "The Widow of the four Arts" but little is known of her bereavement. Little is told of the children that Alma bore to the four artists who loved her - and whom she tragically lost, one after the other. Who was the real Alma?
World Premiere: 26 October 2024, Volksoper Vienna.
Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber
Stage director: Ruth Brauer-Kvam
"Alma" by Ella Milch-Sheriff achieved a unanimous premiere success at the Vienna Volksoper..."
BR Klassik, 27.10.24
Walter Weidringer (translated from German)
https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/kritik-alma-ella-milch-sheriff-annette-dasch-volksoper-wien-100.html
October 26 2024
"Alma"
Opera in 5 acts
Volksoper Wien
Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber
Libretto: Ido Ricklin
Stage director: Ruth Brauer-Kwam
Premiere: October 26th
Vienna Volksoper
December 30 2023
"The eternal stranger" (2020)
"Der ewige Fremde" a Monodrama for actor and orchestra
Text: Joshua Sobol
Tonhalle Orchester, Zurich
Eli Danker, actor
Omer Meir Wellber
Wiener Symphoniker
Konzerthaus Wien
December 30th, Silvester concert
March 30,31 2023
"The eternal stranger" (2020)
"Der ewige Fremde"
a Monodrama for actor and orchestra
Text: Joshua Sobol
Stockholm Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Eli Danker, actor
Omer Meir Wellber
F E A T U R E D R E V I E W S
The Eternal Stranger, World premiere
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Omer Meir Wellber
February 2020
Leipziger Volkszeitung
"Not only a great experience of loneliness for the composer, but at the same time an appeal for humanity towards strangers and refugees... The work and biography of Ella Milch-Sheriff, daughter of two Holocaust survivors, inseparably intertwine"
The Eternal Stranger, Switzerland premiere
Tonhalle Orchester Zuerich, Omer Meir Wellber
Neue Zuercher Zeitung, January 14, 2023
"...Inspired by a dream of Beethoven...the Israeli composer deals with the uprooting of expellees and refugees in this touching piece..."
The eternal Stranger, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Hamburger Abendblatt, December 2021
"...oriental grace and a very poetic text (spoken and embodied by Eli Danker) take you on a thoughtful journey..."
The Eternal Stranger, American premiere
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber
The Boston Globe/January 6, 2023
Jeremy Eichler
"...Compellingly conceived..."
The Eternal Stranger, Switzerland premiere
Oper Aktuel, Kaspar Sannemann 12.01.2023
"… music that is immensely sensitive and beautiful and makes you curious about other works by this composer...With great compositional artistry, Ella Milch-Sheriff has managed to embed the text in the music… one listens admiringly to the intensive expressiveness of the score...
…for over 50 years, I can hardly remember ever being so moved as I was last night in the Tonhalle Zurich."
"The eternal stranger" Italian premiere
Teatro Massimo, Palermo, 4-5 July 2020
"...The eternal stranger of (directed by) Wellber is enchanting.
A hymn to the human mercy on stage..."
"The Banality of Love" – Opera by Ella Milch-Sheriff
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
28 January, 2018
Eva-Elisabeth Fischer
"Ella Milch-Sheriff's superb opera about the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger is premiered in Regensburg with great success... A Herculean undertaking which wins a grandiose success..."
The Eternal Stranger, American premiere
Classical Scene
Julian Gau January 7, 2023
"...vibrant, moving drama of The Eternal Stranger…Let us continue to enjoy the imaginative new horizons of Milch-Sheriff..."
The eternal Stranger, UK premiere
BBC Philharmonic, Wellber, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review by Robert Beale
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
"...something extraordinarily powerful and moving...
If that didn’t stir emotions enough, the UK premiere of The Eternal Stranger and the Beethoven pieces was certain to do so..."
"The eternal stranger" Israeli premiere
Israel Philharmonic, Omer meir Wellber
April 2022
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