Posts Tagged ‘Rebecca Schmid’
Friday, February 8th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid The Berlin Philharmonic is celebrating the centenary of Lutosławski with several concerts this month. The first of the series on February 7—featuring his Concert for Orchestra—opened appropriately with Anne-Sophie Mutter, who premiered one of his most important works, Chain Two, in 1988. In an interview I conducted two years ago, the violinist […]
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Tags: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Antonin Dvorak, Berlin Philharmonic, Bohumil Kubista, Carl Flesch, Chain Two, Manfred Honeck, Penderecki, Rebecca Schmid, Rihm, Witold Lutoslawski
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Friday, February 1st, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Richard Wagner has managed to slowly dominate the scene internationally in recent seasons, but with the official arrival of his bicentenary, the saturation in Germany has only begun. Nürnberg, Leipzig, Munich and Dresden have unveiled new exhibits; in the latter’s case, an entire new building. A stream of publications has hit the […]
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Tags: Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Die Zeit, Enno Poppe, Erhard Grosskopf, Giuseppe Verdi, Giuseppina Strepponi, Jürg Stenzl, Klaus Zehelein, La Scala, Manos Tsangaris, Mauricio Kagel, Nabucco, Nike Wagner, parsifal, Rebecca Schmid, richard wagner, Rigoletto, robert lepage, Schnebel, Simon Rattle, Star Wars, Tristan
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Après lui, le déluge…reflections on Wagner at the Akademie der Künste
Friday, January 25th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid It hardly needs to be said that contemporary music enjoys a privileged status in Germany. Even with the heavily protested merger of the SWR (Southwest German Radio) Orchestras currently in effect, the support of public broadcasting for cutting-edge programming everywhere from Donaueschingen to ‘poor but sexy’ Berlin creates an atmosphere of seemingly […]
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Tags: Aurélio Edler-Copes, Berlin Times, Christopher Trapani, Deutschlandradio, Dietmar Wiesner, Emmanuel Nunes, Ensemble Modern, Erik Charles Nielsen, FritzClub, Hanspeter Kyburz, Johannes Kreidler, Kaspar Hauser, Kulturradio RBB, Matthias Pintscher, New Forum—Jeune Création, Rebecca Schmid, Saar Berger, The New Yorker, Ultraschall Festival, Vito Žuraj, Wolfgang Rihm
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Sunday, January 20th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Berlin may be the capital residence for young composers today, and no other time of year makes this more apparent than the Ultraschall Festival for New Music. They gathered in strong numbers during freezing temperatures for a concert on January 19 at the Haus des Rundfunks, where Brad Lubman led the Deutsches […]
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Tags: Berlin, Berlin Times, Brad Lubman, Bruno Schulz, Chaya Chernowin, cleveland orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Deutschlandradiokultur, Georg Friedrich Haas, Kulturradio RBB, Magarete Zander, Maria Staud, Michael Jarell, musical america, Rebecca Schmid, Ultraschall Festival, W.A. Mozart
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Friday, January 11th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Journeys have provided powerful inspiration to writers, painters and composers alike, opening eyes to new ways of seeing the world. The broadening of artists’ palettes has sometimes allowed them to capture a landscape more vividly than the natives could themselves. One only has to think of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Gauguin’s portraits […]
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Tags: Andreas Ottensamer, Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Times, bruckner, Daishin Kashimoto, Dvorak, Gauguin, Mendelssohn, musical america, Philharmonie, Rebecca Schmid, Riccardo Chailly, Switzerland
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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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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The eclectic musical life of the brief but thriving ‘Roaring twenties’ continues to inspire a nostalgia that is all the more understandable given contemporary classical music’s reorientation toward popular idioms from techno to rock. The latest album of French pianist Alexandre Tharaud, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, sets out to recreate the […]
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Tags: Alexandre Tharaud, Bénabar, Chanel, Clément Doucet, Cole Porter, Darius Milhaud, David Chevallier, EMI, Florent Jodelet, Frank Braley, George Gershwin, Guillaume Gallienne, Jean Cocteau, Jean Delescluse, Jean Wiéner, Juliette, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Les Six, Madeleine Peyroux, Maurice Chevalier, Nathalie Dessay, Picasso, Pleyel, Rebecca Schmid, Stravinsky, Virgin Classics, William Christopher Handy
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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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Friday, October 26th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The programming of the Berlin Philharmonic, while reportedly having gravitated away from the players’ specialty in German repertoire since Sir Simon Rattle took the reins a decade ago, not only gives equal weight to post-Romantic repertoire but consistently illuminates connections between works which seem disparate at first glance. Andris Nelsons conducted the […]
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Tags: Andris Nelsons, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Benjmain Britten, Berlin Philharmonic, Christian Tetzlaff, Claude Debussy, Johann Strauß, John Williams, Jörg Widmann, la mer, La valse, Luciano Berio, Maurice Ravel, peter grimes, Rebecca Schmid, Wolfgang Rihm
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Friday, October 12th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The socially aware agenda of the Komische Oper’s new Intendant Barrie Kosky has been ruffling the feathers of Berliners months before he officially took over this season, not least with the decision to end the house tradition of performing operas exclusively in the German language. His emphasis on cultural pluralism aside, the […]
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Tags: alban berg, American Lulu, barrie kosky, Berlin, Claudio Otelli, David Robert Coleman, Della Miles, Elena Kats-Chernin, Gonduras Jitomirksky, Jacques-Greg Belobo, Johannes Kalitzke, Kirill Serebrennikov, komische oper, lulu, Marisol Montalvo, Olga Neuwirth, Philipp Meierhöfer, Rebecca Schmid, Rolf Romei
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