Posts Tagged ‘Klaus Florian Vogt’
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, August 19th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 19, 2016 BAYREUTH — Clouds over Europe’s festivals this summer are as figurative as they are literal. The trouble is not lower standards or Regietheater, or even money, but has to do with Europe itself and macabre shifts that are gradually threatening the way of life accepted since 1945. Last […]
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Tags: Bayreuth, Bayreuther Festspiele, BR Klassik, Bühnenweihfestspiel, Christian Thielemann, Claudia Mahnke, Deutsche Grammophon, DVD, Elena Pankratova, Georg Zeppenfeld, Gerd Grochowski, Hartmut Haenchen, Iain Paterson, Klaus Florian Vogt, Kritik, Petra Lang, Review, Ryan McKinny, Stephen Gould, Tristan und Isolde, Uwe Eric Laufenberg
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 17, 2016 MUNICH — Bayerischer Rundfunk confirmed on Thursday it will video-stream the premiere of Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s new staging of Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival. — when: 9:57 a.m. EDT on July 25, 2016 — where: www.br-klassik.de/concert Laufenberg is reportedly intent on exploring the religious aspect of Wagner’s 1881 […]
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Tags: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bayreuth, Bayreuther Festspiele, BR Klassik, Bühnenweihfestspiel, Elena Pankratova, Georg Zeppenfeld, Gerd Grochowski, Hartmut Haenchen, Klaus Florian Vogt, News, Ryan McKinny, Uwe Eric Laufenberg
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead The Austrian newspaper, Der Kurier, let drop a great deal of information about what to expect in the future for the Bayreuth Festival. The new Ring in 2020, to the surprise of many, will not be conducted by the new Music Director of the festival, Christian Thielemann, but rather the Boston Symphony’s […]
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Tags: Alvis Hermanis, Andreas Schager, Andris Nelsons, anna netrebko, barrie kosky, bayreuth festival, Berlin Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann, Christine Goerke, Dimitri Tcherniakov, Frank Castorf, Grace Bumbry, Kirill Petrenko, Klaus Florian Vogt, Michael Volle, richard wagner, Roberto Alagna, Simon Rattle, Tobias Kratzer, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Wieland Wagner
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Thursday, October 17th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 17, 2013 MUNICH — Spirograph needlemaniac defaces legendary (and conveniently deceased) Brünnhilde. And so on. Bavarian State Opera’s anticipated additions to its portrait gallery went public yesterday, their twenty-one victims — er, honored subjects — being depicted in various media by twenty-one visual artists. Scattered docent notes: • Anja Harteros […]
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Tags: Anja Harteros, Astrid Varnay, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Brigitte Fassbaender, Christian Gerhaher, Commentary, Diana Damrau, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Edita Gruberová, Fritz Wunderlich, Hermann Prey, Hildegard Behrens, Júlia Várady, Klaus Florian Vogt, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Margaret Price, Maurizio Anzeri, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Peter Seiffert, René Kollo, Waltraud Meier, Wolfgang Brendel, Wolfgang Koch
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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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