Posts Tagged ‘Berlin’
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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Saturday, September 3rd, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: September 3, 2016 MUNICH — Visiting orchestras cost more for concertgoers. But why exactly? Several factors govern ticket prices on tours, often mitigating each other, and all have a bearing this month as three orchestras from this city hit the road: — Bavarian State Orchestra (BStO) with Kirill Petrenko, general music […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Berlin, Bonn, Commentary, Daniel Harding, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Kirill Petrenko, KKL, Lucerne, Luxembourg, Luzern, Milan, München, MünchenMusik, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Musikfest Berlin, National Theater, NBS, Paris, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Teatro alla Scala, Valery Gergiev
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Friday, October 10th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid “This is not a minimalist piece,” announced Cameron Carpenter in onstage discussion of Terry Riley’s At the Royal Majestic, an organ concerto which made its German premiere with the Deutsches-Symphonie Orchester Berlin (DSO) at the Philharmonie on Oct.9. His feet laced up in knee-high converse sneakers, Carpenter proceeded to play an excerpt […]
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Tags: Adolf Woelfli, Berlin, Cameron Carpenter, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Giancarlo Guerrero, Johann Fanger, Terry Riley, Xul Kolar
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Vladimir Putin has given the western world much reason for protest over the past year. There is the law banning homosexual “propaganda.” Two members of Pussy Riot still sit behind bars. According to some residents (and ex-residents) of the former Soviet Union, Russia is reverting to a full-blown totalitarian dictatorship. The businessman […]
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Tags: Amnesty International, Anna Politkowskaja, Arte, Arvo Part, Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Elsbeth Moser, Emmanuel Pahud, Gidon Kremer, Giya Kancheli, Greenpeace, Khatia Buniatishvili, Kremerata Baltica, Leonid Desyatnikov, Martha Argerich, Michail Chodorkowski, Mieczysław Weinberg, Osteuropa, Philharmonie, Pussy Riot, Reporters without Borders, Sergei Nakariakov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Svetlana Gannushkina, To Russia with Love, Vladimir Putin
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Friday, February 1st, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Richard Wagner has managed to slowly dominate the scene internationally in recent seasons, but with the official arrival of his bicentenary, the saturation in Germany has only begun. Nürnberg, Leipzig, Munich and Dresden have unveiled new exhibits; in the latter’s case, an entire new building. A stream of publications has hit the […]
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Tags: Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Die Zeit, Enno Poppe, Erhard Grosskopf, Giuseppe Verdi, Giuseppina Strepponi, Jürg Stenzl, Klaus Zehelein, La Scala, Manos Tsangaris, Mauricio Kagel, Nabucco, Nike Wagner, parsifal, Rebecca Schmid, richard wagner, Rigoletto, robert lepage, Schnebel, Simon Rattle, Star Wars, Tristan
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Sunday, January 20th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Berlin may be the capital residence for young composers today, and no other time of year makes this more apparent than the Ultraschall Festival for New Music. They gathered in strong numbers during freezing temperatures for a concert on January 19 at the Haus des Rundfunks, where Brad Lubman led the Deutsches […]
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Tags: Berlin, Berlin Times, Brad Lubman, Bruno Schulz, Chaya Chernowin, cleveland orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Deutschlandradiokultur, Georg Friedrich Haas, Kulturradio RBB, Magarete Zander, Maria Staud, Michael Jarell, musical america, Rebecca Schmid, Ultraschall Festival, W.A. Mozart
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Friday, October 12th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The socially aware agenda of the Komische Oper’s new Intendant Barrie Kosky has been ruffling the feathers of Berliners months before he officially took over this season, not least with the decision to end the house tradition of performing operas exclusively in the German language. His emphasis on cultural pluralism aside, the […]
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Tags: alban berg, American Lulu, barrie kosky, Berlin, Claudio Otelli, David Robert Coleman, Della Miles, Elena Kats-Chernin, Gonduras Jitomirksky, Jacques-Greg Belobo, Johannes Kalitzke, Kirill Serebrennikov, komische oper, lulu, Marisol Montalvo, Olga Neuwirth, Philipp Meierhöfer, Rebecca Schmid, Rolf Romei
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Sunday, September 30th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Many American opera-goers, including New Yorkers, look across the ocean and wish that their home institutions would afford themselves the same liberties of programming. Back in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper kicked off its season with a Lachenmann opera, Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, while the Komische Oper launched a Monteverdi trilogy including […]
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Tags: Ambroglio Maestri, anna netrebko, Anne-Catherine Bird, barrie kosky, Bartlett Sher, Berlin, Catherine Zuber, Deutsche Oper, donizetti, Efterklang, Johnny Greenwood, Karsten Fundal, komische oper, Lachenmann, L’Elisir d’Amore, Mariusz Kwiecien, Matthew Polenzani, Maurizio Benini, Met Museum, metropolitan opera, Michael Yeargan, Missy Mazzoli, MONO, NPR, Rebecca Schmid, Worldless Music Orchestra
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Friday, September 21st, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid In Berlin, where contemporary music thrives from the Philharmonie to off spaces, it is a widespread perception that New York’s mainstream institutions are afraid to program anything past Stravinsky. A look at Alan Gilbert’s recent undertakings with the New York Philharmonic, notably in a hugely successful “360” concert of Mozart, Stockhausen, Boulez […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, avery fisher hall, Beethoven, Berlin, Boulez, Ives, Kurtag, Leif Ove Andsnes, mozart, New York, New York Philharmonic, Rebecca Schmid, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Vaslav Nijinsky
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Friday, August 24th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The Bayreuth Festival has had its share of scandal to contend with as Wagner’s bicentenary approaches next season. An international investigation into exclusive ticketing practices; the publicized struggle to find the director for a new Ring cycle; administrative policies that have reportedly shortened rehearsal time; widely reviled productions; and—most recently—the last-minute withdrawal […]
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Tags: bayreuth festival, Berlin, berliner volksbühne, Christa Mayer, Christian Thielemann, Deutsche Oper, Eva Pasquier-, flying dutchman, Frank Castorf, german theatre, jan philipp, katharina wagner
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