Posts Tagged ‘La Scala’
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid The Festtage of the Staatsoper Berlin, founded by Daniel Barenboim in 1996, is not officially an Easter Festival. But while the Berlin Philharmonic left the Philharmonie for some mountain air (taking up residence for the first time this year in Baden-Baden), the maestro— between conducting the first full cycle of the Cassiers/Bagnoli […]
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Tags: Alessandro Manzoni, Berlin Times, Bernarda Fink, Daniel Barenboim, Daniela Barcellona, Fabio Sartori, Fesstage, Frank Xaver Süßmayer, La Scala, Maria Bengtsson, Maria Segreta, mozart, René Pape, Rollando Villazòn, Staatskapelle Berlin, verdi
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
By James Conlon A few months ago I wrote about two extraordinary projects in Rome that introduce children, from five to eighteen years of age, to opera. Performances of The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni were presented to thousands of young people by two completely separate entities: the Rome Opera and the Tito Gobbi Foundation. […]
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Tags: audience building, Education, James Conlon, LA Opera, La Scala, young audiences
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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
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Après lui, le déluge…reflections on Wagner at the Akademie der Künste
Friday, June 29th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Few operas in history have gripped the human psyche to the same extent as Don Giovanni. Pushkin, Kierkegaard, and Bernard Shaw count among the literary figures to have written their own account of the daemonic seductor since Mozart and Da Ponte staged their ‘drama giocoso,’ a tragi-comedy, in Prague. Since the 19th […]
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Tags: Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Andrea Palent, anna netrebko, Anna Prohaska, Anthony Holgborne, Berlin Philharmonic, Boulevard Unter den Linden, C.P.E. Bach, Christian Schmidt, Christopher Maltman, Claus Guth, Da Ponte, Daniel Barenboim, dante, Don Giovanni, Dowland, Emmanuel Pahud, Erwin Schrott, Fine Arts Brass, Freundschaftsinsel, Friedrich the Great, Giuseppe Filianoti, Handel, Haydn Mendelssohn, Jürgen Flimm, La Scala, Maria Bengtsson, Meccore Quartet, mozart, Musikfestspiele Potsdam sanssouci, Peter Maxwell Davies, Potsdam, Purcell, Quantz, Robert Carsen, Röschmann, Rousseau, Salzburg Festival, Sanssouci, Schiller Theater, Staatsoper Berlin, Stefan Kocan, Water Music
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Claus Guth’s Forest-bound ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Staatsoper; Musikfestspiele Potsdam’s new Pleasure Garden