Marta Herman
@martaherman.bsky.social
Opera singer, first-gen Polish-Canadian living in Germany
music, books, goats
music, books, goats
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Die Zeichnung des 17-Jährigen Paul Klee "Meine Bude" ist in der unteren linken Ecke auf den 15. November 1896 datiert.
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Die Zeichnung des 17-Jährigen Paul Klee "Meine Bude" ist in der unteren linken Ecke auf den 15. November 1896 datiert.
I didn’t (and still don’t) know enough about how musical life in Germany and occupied countries was eviscerated under the nazis through the systematic targeting of jewish musicians. A harrowing read, but important and sadly increasingly relevant…
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?
Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I didn’t (and still don’t) know enough about how musical life in Germany and occupied countries was eviscerated under the nazis through the systematic targeting of jewish musicians. A harrowing read, but important and sadly increasingly relevant…
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Recently sang in Wuppertal and can confirm that the Schwebebahn is all it is cracked up to be, railway nerd heaven! This article also features the opulent art nouveau Stadthalle 📸, which is where we are performing our Ring cycle with the Sinfonieorchester 🤓
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
The unsung German city with the world’s most extraordinary train
It is 125 years since the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, the oldest suspension railway, first set off. Today it still fascinates visitors to this Rhineland city
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Recently sang in Wuppertal and can confirm that the Schwebebahn is all it is cracked up to be, railway nerd heaven! This article also features the opulent art nouveau Stadthalle 📸, which is where we are performing our Ring cycle with the Sinfonieorchester 🤓
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
Great documentary about Luigi Nono on @artefr.bsky.social, today is the last day to watch!
December 13, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Great documentary about Luigi Nono on @artefr.bsky.social, today is the last day to watch!
Striking description of hiking alone at night in this, Sand's fictionalized epistolary account of her alpine Grand Tour. I wonder whether it is based on actual experience or desire - and am sad about how it registers as a transgressive, notable thing for a solo woman traveller, even 200 years later
December 1, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Striking description of hiking alone at night in this, Sand's fictionalized epistolary account of her alpine Grand Tour. I wonder whether it is based on actual experience or desire - and am sad about how it registers as a transgressive, notable thing for a solo woman traveller, even 200 years later
Last week's Wagner recital, or: joy, and risk 🪽
Risk, because @twgfaulkner.bsky.social & I both debuted so much new repertoire : Erda, Marke, Fricka, Wotan, Waltraute, Pogner...
Joy, because the risk paid off and we shared a special evening with a wildly supportive audience in our Wahlheimat 💜
Risk, because @twgfaulkner.bsky.social & I both debuted so much new repertoire : Erda, Marke, Fricka, Wotan, Waltraute, Pogner...
Joy, because the risk paid off and we shared a special evening with a wildly supportive audience in our Wahlheimat 💜
November 24, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Last week's Wagner recital, or: joy, and risk 🪽
Risk, because @twgfaulkner.bsky.social & I both debuted so much new repertoire : Erda, Marke, Fricka, Wotan, Waltraute, Pogner...
Joy, because the risk paid off and we shared a special evening with a wildly supportive audience in our Wahlheimat 💜
Risk, because @twgfaulkner.bsky.social & I both debuted so much new repertoire : Erda, Marke, Fricka, Wotan, Waltraute, Pogner...
Joy, because the risk paid off and we shared a special evening with a wildly supportive audience in our Wahlheimat 💜
All smiles for our Wagner+ duo concert today, 16Uhr, Stadtmuseum Neu-Isenburg 🌞 @twgfaulkner.bsky.social + me with the wonderful Björn Huestege🎹 singing all our favourite *gods and royals with strong opinions*, v excite 🤓
November 17, 2024 at 10:36 AM
All smiles for our Wagner+ duo concert today, 16Uhr, Stadtmuseum Neu-Isenburg 🌞 @twgfaulkner.bsky.social + me with the wonderful Björn Huestege🎹 singing all our favourite *gods and royals with strong opinions*, v excite 🤓
This coming Sunday, with @twgfaulkner.bsky.social we get to explore a wonderful selection of Wagner, Verdi, and Strauss-dysfunctional married couple Fricka and Wotan included! And, special delight, we get to debut this programme in our hometown, just outside Frankfurt. We'd love to see you there!
November 12, 2024 at 2:21 PM
This coming Sunday, with @twgfaulkner.bsky.social we get to explore a wonderful selection of Wagner, Verdi, and Strauss-dysfunctional married couple Fricka and Wotan included! And, special delight, we get to debut this programme in our hometown, just outside Frankfurt. We'd love to see you there!
Concert claxon 🥳 Distract yourself from the 🌀 state of the world 🌀 by enjoying our very cool programme of new music (and not just) for chamber ensemble and voice featuring harpsichord: Kagel's Rezitativarie, Berio + The Beatles... Tomorrow, 08.11.24, 19Uhr, Altmünsterkirche, MAINZ!
November 7, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Concert claxon 🥳 Distract yourself from the 🌀 state of the world 🌀 by enjoying our very cool programme of new music (and not just) for chamber ensemble and voice featuring harpsichord: Kagel's Rezitativarie, Berio + The Beatles... Tomorrow, 08.11.24, 19Uhr, Altmünsterkirche, MAINZ!
Love conkers all 🌰🌝
September 22, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Love conkers all 🌰🌝
Some opera animals are more equal than others. Let the new theatre season begin!
August 8, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Some opera animals are more equal than others. Let the new theatre season begin!
Always after a good singing lesson, I'll want to go straight to practice instead of listening back first but I'll then heed the smarter angel on my shoulder, listen, and realize that what I took away is a mere 10% of the l e a r n i n g s 🔁 and repeat all over again next time...
April 19, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Always after a good singing lesson, I'll want to go straight to practice instead of listening back first but I'll then heed the smarter angel on my shoulder, listen, and realize that what I took away is a mere 10% of the l e a r n i n g s 🔁 and repeat all over again next time...
Swiss Easter is intense. Tag urself, are you *checks notes* Häsli-Potter? The "Beer is my yoga" (what) Bunny? "I am Bunough" 🫠 Or my personal favourite, ChatGPT Bunny, whose t-shirt proclaims "I'm smarter than I look" 💀 so much to unpack here
March 25, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Swiss Easter is intense. Tag urself, are you *checks notes* Häsli-Potter? The "Beer is my yoga" (what) Bunny? "I am Bunough" 🫠 Or my personal favourite, ChatGPT Bunny, whose t-shirt proclaims "I'm smarter than I look" 💀 so much to unpack here
Last night: Beethoven by Chailly + the Lucerne Festival Orchestra - a masterful performance, thrillingly seamless, a joy 🤍
March 23, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Last night: Beethoven by Chailly + the Lucerne Festival Orchestra - a masterful performance, thrillingly seamless, a joy 🤍
My #1 top tip for Paris, after having spent a few weeks visiting my husband here, is: make sure you have somewhere nice to stay because you WILL get food poisoning and have to spend quality time stuck inside staring at the walls of your Parisian abode 😵
March 1, 2024 at 3:58 PM
My #1 top tip for Paris, after having spent a few weeks visiting my husband here, is: make sure you have somewhere nice to stay because you WILL get food poisoning and have to spend quality time stuck inside staring at the walls of your Parisian abode 😵
Lovely venue for Messiah this past weekend 🩵 Since it was my first, it was a beautiful reminder of how rewarding it can be to approach very well known music with fresh ears - how often do we stop really listening to something we think we know too well?
February 27, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Lovely venue for Messiah this past weekend 🩵 Since it was my first, it was a beautiful reminder of how rewarding it can be to approach very well known music with fresh ears - how often do we stop really listening to something we think we know too well?
A Name for a Shakespeare-themed Japanese restaurant: matcha ado about nothing
January 27, 2024 at 8:48 AM
A Name for a Shakespeare-themed Japanese restaurant: matcha ado about nothing
Verbindungen, Schulen, Grünflächen, alles prima, aber - warte! WIE SIND DIE WURSTVERHÄLTNISSE
(from a local fb group) 🌭🌭🌭
(from a local fb group) 🌭🌭🌭
January 14, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Verbindungen, Schulen, Grünflächen, alles prima, aber - warte! WIE SIND DIE WURSTVERHÄLTNISSE
(from a local fb group) 🌭🌭🌭
(from a local fb group) 🌭🌭🌭
Thinking about the end of Walküre last night when cast & crew gathered in the wings all still, quietly transfixed by Wotans Abschied. A beautiful near-ritual appreciation, having been a part of creating, and now witnessing, magic. Opera is impossible and also perfect sometimes
January 8, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Thinking about the end of Walküre last night when cast & crew gathered in the wings all still, quietly transfixed by Wotans Abschied. A beautiful near-ritual appreciation, having been a part of creating, and now witnessing, magic. Opera is impossible and also perfect sometimes
It's opening night for our Walküre at Oper Leipzig tonight! Beloved production + great colleagues + the amazing Gewandhausorchester = one happy Grimgerde :)
January 7, 2024 at 10:54 AM
It's opening night for our Walküre at Oper Leipzig tonight! Beloved production + great colleagues + the amazing Gewandhausorchester = one happy Grimgerde :)
Back at #operleipzig for Walküre, popped by Leipzig's beautiful Marktplatz early before our 10am rehearsal and was greeted by the verdant bouquets of kale that grace every German market this time of year (what glorious spongy fronds) (happy to be here) 🌞
January 5, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Back at #operleipzig for Walküre, popped by Leipzig's beautiful Marktplatz early before our 10am rehearsal and was greeted by the verdant bouquets of kale that grace every German market this time of year (what glorious spongy fronds) (happy to be here) 🌞
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HEIKE MATTHIESEN (1964–2023) | NACHRUF
Heike starb friedlich am 22. Dezember 2023. Sie war seit 2017 Teil des geschäftsführenden Vorstands beim Internationalen Arbeitskreis Frau und Musik, dem Trägerverein unseres Archivs 🕯️
Wir denken sehr an dich 🖤
Heike starb friedlich am 22. Dezember 2023. Sie war seit 2017 Teil des geschäftsführenden Vorstands beim Internationalen Arbeitskreis Frau und Musik, dem Trägerverein unseres Archivs 🕯️
Wir denken sehr an dich 🖤
Heike Matthiesen (1964–2023) | Nachruf
Heike Matthiesen starb am 22. Dezember 2023. Sie war seit 2017 Teil des geschäftsführenden Vorstands beim IAK Frau und Musik in Frankfurt.
www.archiv-frau-musik.de
December 27, 2023 at 4:39 PM
HEIKE MATTHIESEN (1964–2023) | NACHRUF
Heike starb friedlich am 22. Dezember 2023. Sie war seit 2017 Teil des geschäftsführenden Vorstands beim Internationalen Arbeitskreis Frau und Musik, dem Trägerverein unseres Archivs 🕯️
Wir denken sehr an dich 🖤
Heike starb friedlich am 22. Dezember 2023. Sie war seit 2017 Teil des geschäftsführenden Vorstands beim Internationalen Arbeitskreis Frau und Musik, dem Trägerverein unseres Archivs 🕯️
Wir denken sehr an dich 🖤
Toronto, where are these coming from, why come everyone has them now, blink twice if you're being held captive by your giant blow-up Santas
December 16, 2023 at 1:44 PM
Toronto, where are these coming from, why come everyone has them now, blink twice if you're being held captive by your giant blow-up Santas
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This painting of a slug by 18th century Japanese painter Nagasawa Rosetsu is my very favorite thing today
November 27, 2023 at 11:23 PM
This painting of a slug by 18th century Japanese painter Nagasawa Rosetsu is my very favorite thing today
The actual recording of Schubert's Lindenbaum that Thomas Mann had in his private collection, and wrote about as Hans Castorp's favourite in Zauberberg 🥲
Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 5. Der Lindenbaum
Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of AmericaWinterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 5. Der Lindenbaum · Richard TauberTauber, Richard: Lieder (1919-1926)℗ 2003 NaxosRele...
https://youtu.be/iX81oCxrBZU?si…
November 22, 2023 at 3:53 PM
The actual recording of Schubert's Lindenbaum that Thomas Mann had in his private collection, and wrote about as Hans Castorp's favourite in Zauberberg 🥲