Posts Tagged ‘Deutsche Oper’
Thursday, January 10th, 2019
By: Frank Cadenhead. Positive annual results for 2018 have just been announced by two largest Berlin opera houses. For the Berlin State Opera (Berliner Staatsoper Unter den Linden) the occupancy rate was 92 percent, two percent less than the previous year. During the calendar year, some 235,000 seats were occupied for some 300 performances. Touring was […]
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Tags: Berliner Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper, Renee Fleming
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Friday, May 23rd, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid The story of Billy Budd, a Herman Melville story which became the basis for Britten’s now classic opera, revolves around a seaman whose allure is so strong that John Claggart, the Master-at-arms on an 18th century war ship, conspires to eradicate his presence. Fate takes a strange twist when Budd, reduced to […]
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Tags: Alfred Brendel, Benjman Britten, Billy Budd, Burkhard Ulrich, David Alden, Deutsche Oper, Donald Runnicles, Francesco Piemontesi, Gidon Saks, John Chest, Konzerthaus Berlin, Maxine Braham, Paul Steinberg, Thomas Blondelle, Tobias Kehrer
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Artists on the Rise at the Deutsche Oper and the Konzerthaus
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid A new production of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore at the Deutsche Oper turned out to be a very Anglophone evening. Staged by Irina Brook (daughter of the legendary director Peter Brook), the opera starred young American singers Heidi Stober and Dimitri Pittas. And for the first time, the company introduced English subtitles alongside […]
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Tags: Alexandra Hutton, Deutsche Oper, Dimitri Pittas, donizetti, Heidi Stober, Irina Brook, L'Elisir d'amore, Martin Buczkó, MusicalAmerica.com, Nicola Alaimo, Noëlle Ginefri, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Simon Pauly, Thomas Richter
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid The Deutsche Oper’s Tischlerei, a new wing for alternative music theater, hosted the results of Neue Szenen—a competition for composition launched by the Hans Eisler Conservatory—on April 8. Three young composers, Evan Gardner, Stefan Johannes Hanke and Leah Muir, emerged from a pool of 52 applicants with their musical settings of a […]
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Tags: Andrew Watts, Anna Politkowskaja, Annelie Sophie Müller, Baldur Brönimann, barrie kosky, Carsten Sabrowski, Chechnya, Chris Meritt, Christoph Nußbaumeder, Claudio Otelli, Czechoslovakia, Deutsche Oper, Echo Ensemble, Eir Inderhaug, Evan Gardner, Georg Bochow, Hans Eisler Conservatory, Julia Giebel, Katharina Thomas, komische oper, Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti, Manuel Nawri, Michael Höppner, MusicalAmerica.com, Neue Szenen, Peter Corrigan, Prokofiev, Rebecca Schmid, Robert Carsen, Sarah Palin, Stefan Johannes Hanke, Tamara Heimbrock, Tansel Akzeybek, Zoe Kissa
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Friday, November 30th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid In the final scenes of Mahlermania, a ‘dramatic fantasy with music by Gustav Mahler’ conceived by the troupe Nico and the Navigators in cooperation with the Deutsche Oper to inaugurate the West Berlin opera house’s new alternative stage Tischlerei on November 27, manuscript paper and fur coats scatter across the stage in […]
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Tags: Alma Mahler, Anna-Luise Recke, Annedore Kleist, Deutsche Oper, Frank Willens, Gustav Mahler, Katarina Bradic, Mahlermania, Moritz Gnann, Nico and the Navigators, Rebecca Schmid, Simon Pauly, Tischlerei
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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
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on The Elixir fails to work its Magic at Lincoln Center; Efterklang with the Wordless Music Orchestra
Friday, August 24th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The Bayreuth Festival has had its share of scandal to contend with as Wagner’s bicentenary approaches next season. An international investigation into exclusive ticketing practices; the publicized struggle to find the director for a new Ring cycle; administrative policies that have reportedly shortened rehearsal time; widely reviled productions; and—most recently—the last-minute withdrawal […]
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Tags: bayreuth festival, Berlin, berliner volksbühne, Christa Mayer, Christian Thielemann, Deutsche Oper, Eva Pasquier-, flying dutchman, Frank Castorf, german theatre, jan philipp, katharina wagner
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The Deutsche Oper maintains a dedicated West Berlin following not only for its provocative stagings but sober concert operas showcasing star singers. Of nine “premieres” this season, four are in concert, and in the best scenario feature works known for their dramaturgical weaknesses. The house claimed in a press conference last season […]
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Tags: Armin Gramer, Daniel Cramer, Deutsche Oper, Ensemble Kaleidoskop, Guillermo Garcia Calvo, HAU1, I Due Foscari, james jorden, Leo Nucci, Mascha Mazur, Monteverdi, Olof Borman, Orfeo, Peaches, Ramon Vargas, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Sabine Neumann, Tagesspiegel, Timo Kreuser, Ulrike Schwab, verdi
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Angela Meade makes Berlin Debut; Peaches takes Opera Underground
