Posts Tagged ‘komische oper’
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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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The Komische Oper champions a populist approach through German-language productions and contemporary stage concepts that for some opera goers is synonymous with the most vexing of Regietheater. While the emphasis of the company’s founder Walter Felsenstein on living theater above musical purity remains a locally prized virtue, the house’s attendance rate sank [...]
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Tags: Andreas Homoki, barrie kosky, Bertold Brecht, Brigitte Geller, Calixto Bieto, Dagmar Manzel, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Edward James, Gesine Völlm, Hagen Matzeit, Handel, Heike Scheele, Julia Giebel, Karolina Gumos, Katarina Bradic, Kings Theater, komische oper, Konrad Jünghanel, Kristiina Poska, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Manuel Brug, Seven Deadly Sins, stefan herheim, Stella Doufexis, The Three Penny Opera, Thilo Reinhardt, Xerxes
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Saturday, April 9th, 2011
By James Jorden I apologize for long period (two months!) of radio silence: it’s been a very busy spring season in New York, broken up by a two week vacation my traveling companion and I called the “Regietournee,” a sampling of some of the opera direction going on in Germany (and other northern European theaters.) [...]
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Tags: barrie kosky, calixto bieito, doris doerrie, eurotrash, komische oper, otto schenk, regie, revivals, staatsoper unter den linden, symbols, the met
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