{"id":15977,"date":"2026-06-02T17:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/?p=15977"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:16:05","slug":"a-one-of-a-kind-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/a-one-of-a-kind-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"A one-of-a-kind cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAn extraordinary experience&#8221;\u2026 is how Feuilleton Frankfurt described a performance of the symphonic concert <strong>Amaz\u00f4nia<\/strong> in September 2024, presented at the Alte Oper Frankfurt under the musical direction of <strong>Simone Menezes<\/strong> and featuring photographs by the world-renowned late photographer <strong>Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado<\/strong>. The programme celebrates the unique natural cosmos of the Amazon in all its facets, with compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Philip Glass which, like Salgado\u2019s photographs, are directly inspired by this diverse, wild, and tragically endangered rainforest region. Together with the Dresden Philharmonic, the Italian-Brazilian conductor <strong>Simone Menezes<\/strong> will appear in June at the Dresden Music Festival and at Gulbenkian M\u00fasica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5 June 2026, Dresdner Musikfestspiele \/ 11 &amp; 12 June 2026, Gulbenkian M\u00fasica, Lissabon<\/strong><br>AMAZ\u00d4NIA &#8211; orchestral concert with photos by Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado<br><strong>Dresden Philharmonic \/ Camile Provenzale, soprano \/ Simone Menezes, conductor<\/strong><br>H. Villa-Lobos: Excerpts from <em>Bachianas Brasileiras<\/em> \/ P. Glass: \u00a0<em>\u00c1guas da Amaz\u00f4nia<\/em> \u2013 Metamorphosis \/ H. Villa-Lobos: <em>Floresta do Amazonas<\/em> (arr. Simone Menezes)<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMAZ\u00d4NIA is a musical and visual celebration of the beauty and diversity of the Amazon.<a href=\"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/a-one-of-a-kind-cosmos\/\" class=\"more-link\">MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-news.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15981,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977\/revisions\/15981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}