Posts Tagged ‘Christian Thielemann’
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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Monday, November 19th, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 19, 2012 DRESDEN — Christian Thielemann made his opera debut here yesterday (Nov. 18), thirty-seven long months after agreeing to replace Fabio Luisi as Chefdirigent of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, effectively music director of the Semperoper company. The vehicle, Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s 12-year-old, quasi-faithful staging of Der Rosenkavalier — notable […]
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Tags: Christian Thielemann, Daniela Fally, Daniela Sindram, Der Rosenkavalier, Dresden, Dresden Staatskapelle, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Luisi, Review, Richard Strauss, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Semperoper, Soile Isokoski, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Wolfgang Bankl
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Thursday, October 11th, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 11, 2012 MUNICH — Arts groups here present a restrained 2012–13 season facing pros and cons not always aligned with those in America. Funding, for instance, holds steady: city and state (Bavaria) play their part, as do local corporations Siemens, BMW, Audi, Allianz and Linde. Excellent pools of musicians, instrumental […]
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Tags: Alexander Liebreich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, BR Chor, Brigitte Fassbaender, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Constantinos Carydis, Cuvilliés Theater, Don Pasquale, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Jenůfa, Kent Nagano, Lorin Maazel, MKO, Münchener Kammerorchester, Münchner Philharmoniker, Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester, Münchner Symphoniker, Munich Philharmonic, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Peter Dijkstra, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Tomáš Hanus, Ulf Schirmer
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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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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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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The theme of this year’s Dresdener Musikfestspiele, “Herz Europas” (the Heart of Europe), inventively returns the East German city to its roots as a thriving cultural hub. While today’s united Germany is roiled by the end of the ‘Merkozy’ era and Eurobond controversy, the emphasis of the festival (May 15-June 3) on […]
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Tags: Academy of Ancient Music, Allen Boxer, Alte Gemälde Galerie, Anja Zügner, Baltic Youth Orchestra, Bartok, Britten, bruckner, Canaletto, Christian Thielemann, Cimarosa, Concentus Musicus Wien, Daniel Liebeskind, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dresden, Dresdener Musikfestspiele, Dresdner Kapellsolisten, Gläsener Manufaktur, Großer Garten, Helmut Branny, Herald Tribune, Honegger, Ian Bostridge, Il Giardino Armonico, Ilhun Jung, Jan Vogler, Kristian Järvi, Marinsky Orchestra, Matthias Henneberg, MDR Symphony Orchestra, mozart, Music Critics Association of North America, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Princess Amalie, Raphael, Ravel, Rossini, Staatskapelle Dresden, Steven Devine, Strauss, Tehila Nini Goldstein, Valery Gergiev, Volkswagon
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