Posts Tagged ‘News’
Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 12, 2013 MUNICH — Some like to tiptoe into a new job. Kirill Petrenko, 41, prefers to plunge. The fresh Generalmusikdirektor at Bavarian State Opera is now deep in rehearsals for his first production here: Strauss’s ambitious, arduous Die Frau ohne Schatten, uncut apparently. Krzysztof Warlikowski directs. Known in Munich […]
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Tags: Adrianne Pieczonka, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deborah Polaski, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Elena Pankratova, Evgeny Onegin, Johan Botha, Joseph Keilberth, Kirill Petrenko, Krzysztof Warlikowski, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Richard Strauss, Wolfgang Koch
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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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Monday, June 3rd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 3, 2013 MUNICH — Mariss Jansons has signed an extension of his contract as Chefdirigent of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and its choral forces, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) announced today here. The added period runs from Sept. 2015 through Aug. 2018. The Riga, Latvia-born conductor, 70, also serves as chief […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, Mariss Jansons, München, Munich, News, Nikolaus Pont, ORF, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wiener Konzerthaus
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Friday, February 1st, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 1, 2013 MUNICH — In a statement issued today here, Lorin Maazel shed light on the brevity of his tenure as Chefdirigent of the Munich Philharmonic: “I congratulate Valery Gergiev on his appointment as principal conductor … starting the 2015–16 season. I am honored to have been serving as the […]
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Tags: Christian Thielemann, Lorin Maazel, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Valery Gergiev
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 23, 2013 MUNICH — With the city council’s blessing today of Valery Gergiev’s hire as the next Chefdirigent of the Munich Philharmonic, all three of the Bavarian capital’s globally renowned orchestras will be in Soviet-born hands by late 2015. This September, 40-year-old Kirill Petrenko of Omsk, Siberia, finally takes over […]
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Tags: Abendzeitung, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Kirill Petrenko, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Valery Gergiev
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