Posts Tagged ‘Bavarian State Opera’
Friday, December 21st, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 21, 2012 MUNICH — They all laughed eight years ago when the Bavarian State Opera set Verdi’s Rigoletto on the Planet of the Apes, and the production fast vanished. Naturally, then, the return of the deformed ducal jester in a new régie last Saturday (Dec. 15) promised relative normalcy, perhaps [...]
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Tags: Árpád Schilling, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Franco Vassallo, Joseph Calleja, Marco Armiliato, Munich, Munich Times, Nadia Krasteva, Patricia Petibon, Planet of the Apes, Rigoletto, Vienna State Opera
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 23, 2012 MUNICH — Scorpion-Man prowls the rubble of an unnamed flattened city at the start of Babylon, Jörg Widmann’s new opera, wailing as he moves. We should care. Seven scenes, a Hanging Garden interlude, and three costly theater hours later, he is back, doing his thang over the same [...]
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Tags: Alexander Janiczek, András Schiff, Anna Prohaska, Arcanto Quartett, Babylon, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian-Babylonian March, Carlus Padrissa, Claron McFadden, David Schultheiß, Euphrates, Gabriele Schnaut, George Loomis, Jörg Widmann, Jussi Myllys, Kai Wessel, Kent Nagano, Mozarteum, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Munich Times, Peter Sloterdijk, Régietheater, Salzburg Festival, Tower of Babel, Willard White, Wolfgang Rihm
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Thursday, October 11th, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 11, 2012 MUNICH — Arts groups here present a compromised 2012–13 season, facing pros and cons not always aligned with those in America. Funding holds steady. City and state (Bavaria) play their part, and local powerhouses — Siemens, BMW, Audi, Allianz, and Linde among them — step up habitually to [...]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Allianz, Anja Harteros, Audi, Babylon, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, BMW, BR Chor, BR Klassik, Brigitte Fassbaender, Bruno Walter, Carlus Padrissa, Christian Thielemann, Constantinos Carydis, David Robertson, Don Pasquale, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Ferenc Fricsay, Gasteig, Hans Knappertsbusch, Herkulessaal, Jenůfa, Jörg Widmann, Kent Nagano, Linde, Lorin Maazel, Marcello Viotti, MDR Chor, MKO, Münchener Kammerorchester, Münchner Symphoniker, Munich Philharmonic, Munich Times, Orlande de Lassus, Peter Dijkstra, Prinzregententheater, Régietheater, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti, Richard Jones, Richard Strauss, Salvatore Sciarrino, Siemens, Simon Rattle, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Tomáš Hanus, Turandot, Ulf Schirmer, Wolfgang Heubisch, Wolfgang Sawallisch
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Classical:NEXT, an exclusively classical professional forum which held its first edition from May 30-June 2 in Munich, set out with high ambitions. Founded at the behest of the Association of Classical Independents in Germany (CLASS) as an alternative to MIDEM, which has left many attendants disappointed in recent years both for its [...]
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Tags: Anna Kleeblatt, Association of Classical Independents in Germany, Bavarian State Opera, carnegie hall, Carsten Dürer, Christopher Gruits, Classical:NEXT, Gasteig, Gramophone, Harry Klein club, James Jolly, Jessica Duchen, MIDEM, Munich, Naxos, Oliver Condy, PIANONews, Thierry Pécou
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