Archive for June, 2017
Friday, June 23rd, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 23, 2017 MUNICH — Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, complete, is slated for President Trump’s second orchestra concert on the job, to take place, like the first, in Europe, specifically at Hamburg’s new Elbphilharmonie. Details of the July 7 event, part of the 12th G20 Summit, were announced Wednesday by a spokesman […]
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Tags: Angela Merkel, Beethoven, Christiane Karg, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Franz-Josef Selig, G20 Summit, Hamburg State Opera Chorus, Kent Nagano, Klaus Florian Vogt, News, Okka von der Damerau, Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, Vladimir Putin
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Friday, June 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 16, 2017 MUNICH — Today Berlin got as close to Munich as Vienna already is: four hours by rail. Deutsche Bahn test-trains for the first time ran the recently completed high-speed track between the two German cities, 400 miles apart, and the company promised passenger service starting Dec. 10, the […]
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Tags: Berlin, Deutsche Bahn, High-Speed Rail, ICE, Leipzig, München, Munich, News, Nuremberg, Nürnberg, ÖBB, Railjet, Vienna
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Friday, June 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 16, 2017 MUNICH — An odd thing happened during the curtain calls last evening after a taut, riveting Rusalka here at Bavarian State Opera. The orchestra players made various signs of approval for the cast members’ work, as is customary, and then essentially none for the conductor (and leading lady’s […]
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Tags: Alyona Abramova, Andris Nelsons, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dmytro Popov, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Günther Groissböck, Helena Zubanovich, Kristine Opolais, Kušej, München, Munich, Nadia Krasteva, News, Rachael Wilson, Tara Erraught, Tomáš Hanus, Ulrich Reß
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Thursday, June 15th, 2017
By: Frank Cadenhead June 15, 2017. An article in Tuesday’s Le Figaro newspaper gives some positive news about the future of the two radio orchestras in France, the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. As we reported in 2015 in Musical America, there was panic when proposals were floated to […]
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Tags: Emmanuel Krivine, Erick Denut, Jean-Marc Bador, Luc Besson, Mathieu Gallet, mikko franck, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 3, 2017 SALZBURG — When artistic control of the Whitsun Festival here moved to Cecilia Bartoli nearly six years ago, its programming changed from a steady focus on one period and place (18th-century Napoli) to shifting annual themes. First there was “Cleopatra.” Next came the idea of “sacrifice.” Then the […]
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Tags: Antonio Pappano, Ariodante, Bartoli, Christof Loy, Christophe Dumaux, Georg Friedrich Händel, Gianluca Capuano, Großes Festspielhaus, Haus für Mozart, Kathryn Lewek, Les Musiciens du Prince, Mendelssohn, Nathan Berg, Norman Reinhardt, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Review, Salzburg, Salzburger Bachchor, Sandrine Piau, Tatiana Serjan, Terfel, Whitsun Festival
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