Posts Tagged ‘Vladimir Putin’
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 31, 2018 MUNICH — Contrary to a London blog report yesterday, nothing has been “locked down” with regard to a contract extension for Valery Gergiev at the Munich Philharmonic, though things are indeed moving in that direction, for practical more than artistic reasons. What has happened is that Hans-Georg Küppers, […]
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Tags: Andris Nelsons, Dieter Reiter, Gasteig, Hans-Georg Küppers, Kirill Petrenko, Mariss Jansons, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Paul Müller, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowski, Vladimir Putin
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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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Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 9, 2014 MUNICH — Not a week goes by here now without media mention of Valery Gergiev. The musical friend of Vladimir Putin and, more to the point, high-profile employee-to-be of the City of Munich inspires comment even in modest suburban newspapers. Many want his alarmingly long contract (2015–20) shredded. […]
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Tags: Astana Opera, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Green Party, Hans-Georg Küppers, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariinsky Theater, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Paul Müller, Pink List, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Putin
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Thursday, March 27th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 27, 2014 MUNICH — In eight days in May 2004, as a kind of audition for the post of principal conductor, Valery Gergiev drove the London Symphony Orchestra brilliantly, if roughly, through recorded concerts of all of Prokofiev’s symphonies. Acclaim ensued, he got the job, and two years later the […]
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Tags: Alexander Timchenko, Andrius Zlabys, Dmitri Levkovich, Gasteig, Ilya Bannik, Irina Vasilieva, Le roi des étoiles, Les noces, London Symphony Orchestra, L’oiseau de feu, Marina Radiushina, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Olga Savova, Philips, Prokofiev, Review, Sergei Babayan, Stravinsky, Symphonies d’instruments à vent, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Putin
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Vladimir Putin has given the western world much reason for protest over the past year. There is the law banning homosexual “propaganda.” Two members of Pussy Riot still sit behind bars. According to some residents (and ex-residents) of the former Soviet Union, Russia is reverting to a full-blown totalitarian dictatorship. The businessman […]
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Tags: Amnesty International, Anna Politkowskaja, Arte, Arvo Part, Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Elsbeth Moser, Emmanuel Pahud, Gidon Kremer, Giya Kancheli, Greenpeace, Khatia Buniatishvili, Kremerata Baltica, Leonid Desyatnikov, Martha Argerich, Michail Chodorkowski, Mieczysław Weinberg, Osteuropa, Philharmonie, Pussy Riot, Reporters without Borders, Sergei Nakariakov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Svetlana Gannushkina, To Russia with Love, Vladimir Putin
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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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