Posts Tagged ‘Jörg Widmann’
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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Friday, October 26th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The programming of the Berlin Philharmonic, while reportedly having gravitated away from the players’ specialty in German repertoire since Sir Simon Rattle took the reins a decade ago, not only gives equal weight to post-Romantic repertoire but consistently illuminates connections between works which seem disparate at first glance. Andris Nelsons conducted the [...]
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Tags: Andris Nelsons, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Benjmain Britten, Berlin Philharmonic, Christian Tetzlaff, Claude Debussy, Johann Strauß, John Williams, Jörg Widmann, la mer, La valse, Luciano Berio, Maurice Ravel, peter grimes, Rebecca Schmid, 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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