Friday, November 16th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid As Regietheater becomes the norm on opera stages in Germany, it is a pleasant, if not shocking, surprise to see a production of Die Zauberflöte that looks like a throwback to the time of its world premiere. The Staatsoper Berlin has revived a 1994 staging modelled after designs by the nineteenth-century Prussian […]
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Tags: Adriane Queiroz, Alina Anca, Anna Lapkovskaja, August Everding, Aurelius Sängerknaben, Carola Höhn, Daniel Barenboim, Die Zauberflöte, Emmanuel Schikaneder, Friedrich Wilhelm, Julien Salemkour, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kyungho Kim, Narine Yeghiyan, Pavol Breslik, Rebecca Schmid, René Pape, Roman Trekel, Rowan Hellier, Schiller Theater, Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, The Magic Flute, W.A. Mozart
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Infektion!, the name of the Staatsoper’s annual Festival for New Music Theater could easily extend to describe the presence of John Cage in Germany this year. No other country outside the U.S. has planned as many events for his centenary of his birth, and Berlin is in some people’s minds already ‘Caged […]
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Tags: Akademie der Künste, Alfredo Daza, Carl Darlhaus, Daniel Barenboim, Darmstadt, Die Zauberflöte, Dionysus, Don Giovanni, Elin Rombo, Esther Lee, Europeras, Frankfurt, Günther Albers, Infektion!, Ingo Metzmacher, Isabel Ostermann, James Cleverton, Joan La Barbara, John Cage, Jonathan Meese, Jorge Jara, Julia Faylenbogen, Liszt, MärzMusik, Matthias Klink, Mojca Erdmann, MOMA, mozart, Nicholas Isherwood, Nietzsche, Pierre Audi, Proserpina, Qi Gong, René Pape, Robert Farkas, Roman Trekel, Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg Festival, Schiller Theater, Sonic Arts Lounge, Sophia Simitzis, Staatsoper Berlin, Virpi Raisanen, wagner, Walkyrie, Wolfgang Rihm
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