Posts Tagged ‘Kent Nagano’
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, January 27th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 27, 2017 ZURICH — It was not the most natural of programs. Beethoven’s familiar C-Major Piano Concerto (1795) prepared nobody for Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà … , or Lightning Over the Beyond … , the 65-minute theological ornithological astronomical would-be symphony Messiaen finished in 1991. Wary of the exotic fare ahead, […]
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Tags: Beethoven, CD, Daniil Trifonov, Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà, Ingo Metzmacher, Kairos, Kent Nagano, Lightning Over the Beyond, Messiaen, Review, Tonhalle-Orchester, Vienna Philharmonic, Zurich
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Friday, July 24th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 24, 2015 MUNICH — Bavarian State Opera has confirmed by phone it will announce a contract extension for Kirill Petrenko before the start of next season, in September. With the month of August being a house holiday, the news could come as early as next week when the company’s annual […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Berlin Philharmonic, Commentary, Kent Nagano, Kirill Petrenko, Ludwig Spaenle, Luisi, München, Munich, News, Nikolaus Bachler, Wolfgang Sawallisch
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 19, 2014 MUNICH — Bavarian State Opera’s flag-waving, Putin-skewering production of Boris Godunov had extra resonance in a revival on Sunday afternoon (March 16) as Crimeans engaged in their foregone conclusion of a referendum. Musically, too, all emerged tougher and more urgent than at last year’s premiere. Kirill Petrenko sharpened […]
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Tags: Ain Anger, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Anatoli Kotcherga, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, BelAir Classiques, Bieito, Boris Godunov, Dmytro Popov, Gerhard Siegel, Kent Nagano, Kevin Conners, Kirill Petrenko, Markus Eiche, München, Munich, Review, Sören Eckhoff, Vladimir Matorin
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Sunday, October 13th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 13, 2013 MUNICH — Next Wednesday (Oct. 16) new portraits go on display in Bavarian State Opera’s lobby. Twenty-one new portraits. Astrid Varnay, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kurt Moll, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberová, René Kollo, Hildegard Behrens and Waltraud Meier are among the worthy singing subjects, company troopers all. But […]
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Tags: Anja Harteros, Astrid Varnay, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Brigitte Fassbaender, Christian Gerhaher, Clemens Krauss, Commentary, Diana Damrau, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Edita Gruberová, Fritz Wunderlich, Heinrich Vogl, Hermann Prey, Hildegard Behrens, Joseph Keilberth, Júlia Várady, Kaufmann, Kent Nagano, Kirill Petrenko, Klaus Florian Vogt, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Margaret Price, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Nina Stemme, Peter Jonas, Peter Seiffert, René Kollo, Richard Strauss, Therese Vogl, Waltraud Meier, Wolfgang Brendel, Wolfgang Koch, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Zubin Mehta
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Saturday, August 24th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 24, 2013 MUNICH — What is written on skin? Craftsmanship “as immaculate as anything … composed since the heyday of Ravel” and “glimpses of a 21st-century tonality,” if you read Alex Ross in The New Yorker. And “a psychologically gripping, emotionally heart-pounding and viscerally satisfying drama,” according to Corinna da […]
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Tags: Barbara Hannigan, Christopher Purves, Eva Reiter, George Benjamin, Iestyn Davies, John Allan Clayton, Katie Mitchell, Kent Nagano, Klangforum Wien, Marie Victoria Simmonds, Martin Crimp, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Philipp Alexander Marguerre, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Written On Skin
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 21, 2013 MUNICH — As dramaturgy, Calixto Bieito’s new staging here of Mussorgsky’s seven‑scene 1869 Boris Godunov (heard and seen yesterday, Feb. 20) runs into trouble almost immediately. Set in present‑day Russia — identifiable by the up‑to‑date, thug‑police gear and the wall map in Boris’s Terem (Scene V) — it […]
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Tags: Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Anatoli Kotcherga, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bieito, Boris Godunov, Gerhard Siegel, Kent Nagano, Kevin Conners, Mezzo TV, München, Munich, Mussorgsky, Okka von der Damerau, Review, Sergei Skorokhodov, Staatsoper Hamburg, Vladimir Matorin, Vladimir Putin
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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 thing over the same […]
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Tags: András Schiff, Anna Prohaska, Arcanto Quartet, Babylon, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian-Babylonian March, Bayerische Staatsoper, Carlus Padrissa, Claron McFadden, Commentary, David Schultheiß, Gabriele Schnaut, Jörg Widmann, Jussi Myllys, Kai Wessel, Kent Nagano, München, Munich, Peter Sloterdijk, Review, Rihm, Willard White
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Thursday, October 11th, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 11, 2012 MUNICH — Arts groups here present a restrained 2012–13 season facing pros and cons not always aligned with those in America. Funding, for instance, holds steady: city and state (Bavaria) play their part, as do local corporations Siemens, BMW, Audi, Allianz and Linde. Excellent pools of musicians, instrumental […]
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Tags: Alexander Liebreich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, BR Chor, Brigitte Fassbaender, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Constantinos Carydis, Cuvilliés Theater, Don Pasquale, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Jenůfa, Kent Nagano, Lorin Maazel, MKO, Münchener Kammerorchester, Münchner Philharmoniker, Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester, Münchner Symphoniker, Munich Philharmonic, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Peter Dijkstra, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Tomáš Hanus, Ulf Schirmer
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