Posts Tagged ‘Michael Nagy’
Sunday, January 31st, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 31, 2016 MUNICH — Three years ago Bavarian State Opera’s yearly Silvester performances of Die Fledermaus came to a sudden, poorly excused halt. Never mind that they were a global signature of the company; Carlos Kleiber famously led ten of them. As substitutes, the powers-that-be provided La traviata (Verdi was […]
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Tags: Andreas Weirich, Anna Prohaska, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bo Skovhus, Carlos Kleiber, Christian Rieger, Cornelius Obonya, Die Fledermaus, Edgaras Montvidas, Johann Strauß, Kirill Petrenko, Marlis Petersen, Michael Nagy, Michaela Selinger, München, Munich, Review, Thomas Hampson
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 28, 2013 MUNICH — Bayerischer Rundfunk chose to film Bach’s St Matthew Passion last month in the Herkulessaal, in blue light. Drafted for the mood-enhanced venture were Karina Gauvin, Gerhild Romberger, Maximilian Schmitt and Michael Nagy, the vocal quartet; Julian Prégardien and Karl-Magnus Fredriksson as the Evangelist and Jesus; the […]
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Tags: Arte TV, Bach, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, BR Klassik, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Köln, Gerhild Romberger, Herkulessaal, Jan Freiheit, Julian Prégardien, Karina Gauvin, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson, Lent, Matthäus-Passion, Maximilian Schmitt, Mayumi Hirasaki, Michael Nagy, München, Munich, Peter Dijkstra, Regensburger Domspatzen, Review, St Matthew Passion
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Friday, August 31st, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid „Kinder, schaff Neues,“ (Children, create something new) Wagner wrote in an adage frequently quoted by stage directors in Germany. In Bayreuth, 136 years after the founding of his festival, the spirit is alive and well. Provocatively-minded Regietheater, for lack of a better blanket term, has come to stamp the recently installed administration […]
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Tags: bayreuth festival, Burkhard Fritz, Camilla Nylund, Christian Marthaler, Christian Thielemann, Irène Theorin, katharina wagner, Kwangchul Youn, Michael Nagy, Michele Breedt, Peter Schneider, Philippe Jordan, Robert Dean Smith, Sebastian Baumgarten, stefan herheim, Susan Maclean, Torsten Kerl, Wolfgang Wagner
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