Darius Herrmann & Levi Fuchs
Eröffnungs-Liederabend des Festivals. Liederabend zum Thema der Natur, Sehnsucht, Vergänglichkeit und Hoffnung. Mit Darius Hermann (Bariton) und Levi Fuchs (Klavier)
Programm
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Im Frühling, D 882 (Ernst Schulze)
Der Wanderer, D 489 / op. 4 Nr. 1 (Georg Philipp Schmidt von Lübeck)
An den Mond, D 259 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Der Musensohn, D 764 / op. 92 Nr. 1 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
Im Frühling (Eduard Mörike)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Intermezzo F-Dur, op. 118 Nr. 5 (Klavier solo; aus Sechs Klavierstücke)
Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
aus dem Italienischen Liederbuch (Paul Heyse nach italienischen Volksliedern)
Nr. 3 Ihr seid die Allerschönste
Nr. 33 Sterb ich, so hüllt in Blumen meine Glieder
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Heimliche Aufforderung, op. 27 Nr. 3 (John Henry Mackay)
— Pause —
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Сирень (Siren’ / Flieder), op. 21 Nr. 5 (Jekaterina Beketowa)
Не пой, красавица, при мне (Ne poj, krasawiza / Sing nicht, Schöne), op. 4 Nr. 4 (Alexander Puschkin)
Prélude D-Dur, op. 23 Nr. 4 (Klavier solo; aus Dix préludes)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Gebet während der Schlacht, D 171 (Theodor Körner)
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
aus den Kindertotenliedern (Friedrich Rückert)
Nr. 2 Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Achim von Arnim / Clemens Brentano)
Nr. 12 Das irdische Leben
Nr. 14 Urlicht
Darius Herrmann
Baritone
The German baritone Darius Herrmann was born in 2002 in Ashiya, Japan. He gained his first singing experience as a soloist and chorister at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz and in the Thomanerchor Leipzig. Since 2022 he has been studying voice at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin in the class of Professor Roman Trekel.
In university productions he has appeared as Voce in Mozart’s Idomeneo (2024), as Frank in Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (2025), and as Alberich in excerpts from Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Further engagements have taken him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in the 2024/25 season for the project Neue Szenen, and in 2026 to a concert of the Internationale Siegfried-Wagner-Gesellschaft at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
In the 2026/27 season Darius Herrmann is an academy member of the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin. He is also a scholarship holder of the Giovanni Omodeo Foundation.

Levi Fuchs
Pianist
The German pianist Levi Fuchs was born in 2003 in Görlitz. He began piano lessons at the age of nine and, while still a teenager, gained early practical experience accompanying choirs and vocal ensembles. He has won numerous prizes as a Lied accompanist and developed from an early stage a particular gift for sensitive collaboration with singers. From 2019 to 2021 he attended the Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik in Dresden, before beginning his Bachelor’s degree in Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy (IGP) at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden with Professor Karl-Heinz Simon in 2021. He has also taken part in masterclasses with, among others, Professor Christian A. Pohl, Professor Michael Schütze, and Martin Helmchen, continually refining his pianistic sound and his art of interpretation in the field of Lied.

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