From Baroque to Mozart to modern music, Katharina Ruckgaber sings everything with her characteristic sense of style. She also regularly devotes herself to lesser-known composers. A CD has now been released featuring works by Mátyás Seiber (1905–1960), a student of Kodály, who was born in Hungary and lived and worked in England from 1935 onwards. On this album, Katharina Ruckgaber sings 4 Chansons populaires françaises for soprano & string orchestra with the Württemberger Philharmonie Reutlingen under Fedor Rudin.
At the Alte Oper Frankfurt, she will appear in a concert in the 2 × Hören (“2 × Listening”) series, this instance being dedicated to works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. This concert series offers the audience deeper access to central—and also less well-known—works of the chamber music repertoire. After an initial hearing, a workshop discussion follows, addressing background to the work’s creation, compositional features, and questions of interpretation. The work is then heard a second time, with the audience’s ears now open to previously hidden secrets within the music.
Alte Oper Frankfurt
2 × Hören: Tchaikovsky
Katharina Ruckgaber, soprano
Apr 20, 2026
