Archive for 2017
Thursday, December 28th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 28, 2017 MUNICH — Post is under revision. Illustration © Queue-it and Bayerische Staatsoper Related posts: Staatsoper Favors Local Fans See-Through Lulu Ettinger Drives Aida U.S. Orchestras on Travel Ban Time for Schwetzingen
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, CTS Eventim, Ludwig Spaenle, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Queue-it
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Sunday, November 26th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 26, 2017 MUNICH — Post is under revision. Photos © Arthaus, BelAir Classiques, Querstand, Supraphon, Warner Classics Related posts: Winter Discs Time for Schwetzingen Ives: Violin Sonatas on CD Chung to Conduct for Trump Manon, Let’s Go
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Tags: Agnieszka Rehlis, Aida, Aldo Protti, Aleksandra Kurzak, Andrea Chénier, Anja Harteros, Anton Bruckner, Antonino Votto, Antonio Pappano, Arthaus, Artur Ruciński, Badischer Staatsopernchor, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bayreuther Festspiele, BelAir Classiques, Bellini, Berg, Berlioz, Birgit Nilsson, Bo Skovhus, Bohumil Gregor, Callas, CD, Cesare Valletti, Choeur de l’Opéra du Rhin, Choeur Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Cigánské melodie, Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Coro della Cappella Musicale Pontificia, Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Cypresses, Cypřiše, Daniela Sindram, Deutsche Grammophon, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Dmitry Korchak, DVD, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Enzo Mascherini, Erato, Erwin Schrott, Eugenia Ratti, Fiorenza Cossotto, Gewandhaus-Orchester, Gino Penno, Giordano, Giuseppe Modesti, Giuseppe Verdi, Gypsy Melodies, Hanna Hipp, Haydn, Herbert Blomstedt, Herbert von Karajan, Italo Tajo, Ivo Žídek, Jacek Kaspszyk, John Nelson, Joyce DiDonato, Karel Berman, Karl Böhm, Kaufmann, Kirill Petrenko, La sonnambula, Leif Ove Andsnes, Leoš Janáček, Les Troyens, Libuše Prylová, Litany to the Virgin Mary, Macbeth, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Mario del Monaco, Marlis Petersen, Martti Talvela, Massimo Palombella, Matthias Klink, Michael Spyres, Missa Papae Marcelli, Nicolas Courjal, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Palestrina, Pavol Breslik, Piero Cappuccilli, Plácido Domingo, Prague National Theatre, Premysl Kočí, Querstand, Raina Kabaivanska, Review, Róbert Pechanec, Rudolf Vonásek, Sistine Chapel Choir, Stéphane Degout, Supraphon, Szymanowski, Teatro alla Scala, Tézier, Tristan und Isolde, Věc Makropulos, Victor de Sabata, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Warner Classics, Warsaw Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wolfgang Windgassen
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Saturday, November 4th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 4, 2017 MUNICH — With a shrill, pretty Hanna, a shriller, pretty Valencienne, a Camille of uneven tone, but a tight, fluent chorus and much charming orchestral work, Die lustige Witwe ended six years of darkness at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Oct. 19. This city’s second opera company, of the […]
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Tags: Adam Cooper, Anthony Bramall, Daniel Prohaska, Die lustige Witwe, Josef Köpplinger, Kritik, Lehár, München, Munich, Review, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, The Merry Widow
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
By: Frank Cadenhead On October 30, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, made an appearance at the Opéra de Strasbourg. No, it was not a gala or a special occasion. It was just to witness a rehearsal of the opera Carmen in its “participatory version.” The Strasbourg opera forces, along with their chorus, Maîtrise de l’Opéra […]
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Tags: Emmanuel Macron, Opera de Strasbourg
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 27, 2017 MUNICH — Though it will be built on the wrong side of the wrong train station, Munich’s much-debated, much-delayed new concert hall crept toward reality today with the announcement of a winning design. Bregenz-based Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten secured first place in the competition for the venue, now dubbed […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Commentary, Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten, Dieter Reiter, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Horst Seehofer, Konzertsaal München, München, Münchner Konzerthaus, Munich, Neues Odeon, News, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Monday, October 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 16, 2017 MUNICH — Sony has released a remarkable recording of Brahms’s Magelone-Romanzen, Op. 33, complete with Zwischentexte prepared by German author Martin Walser. Christian Gerhaher sings the fifteen songs and recites two of the other three poems (the 1st, 16th and 17th) from Ludwig Tieck’s 1797 narrative not set […]
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Tags: Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Klassik, Brahms, CD, Christian Gerhaher, Commentary, Die schöne Magelone, Gerold Huber, Kritik, Magelone-Romanzen, Martin Walser, Review, Sony Classical, Tieck
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Monday, October 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 16, 2017 GRÜNWALD — In mixing-bowl terms, Berlin’s Armida Quartett and Paris’s Quatuor Modigliani combined rather than blended in a standing-room-only concert Oct. 11 here at the August Everding Saal. That is as required for some recipes, possibly including Mendelssohn’s E-flat String Octet (1825), which received a convulsive, unnuanced performance […]
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Tags: Amaury Coeytaux, Armida Quartett, August Everding Saal, Brahms, CD, François Kieffer, Grünwald, Kritik, Martin Funda, Mendelssohn, Mirare, Modigliani Quartet, Octet, Oktett, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Quatuor Modigliani, Review, Schumann, Teresa Schwamm, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2017
Just a quick update for those of you wondering about the arts implications of the revised travel ban: Aside from adding North Korea and Venezuela (with the latter not actually be a “real” ban) to the list, everything else is pretty much the same as it was…with everyone in the world regardless of citizenship continuing […]
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Sunday, September 24th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: September 24, 2017 MUNICH — He had to abandon his Munich Philharmonic cycle, a cosmic Fifth being one of its relics, but Christian Thielemann’s Dresden cycle* of the numbered Bruckner symphonies has progressed smoothly to near completion, and with video. Oddly parts of it have been filmed here at the Gasteig […]
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Tags: Anton Bruckner, Bell’Arte, Bruch, C Major, Christian Thielemann, Dresden Staatskapelle, DVD, Gasteig, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich Philharmonic, Nikolaj Znaider, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Stiftsbasilika St Florian, Valery Gergiev
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: September 23, 2017 BREGENZ — Post is under revision. Photos © Bregenzer Festspiele Related posts: Nitrates In the Canapés Harteros Warms to Tosca Nézet-Séguin: Hit, Miss On Wenlock Edge with MPhil Wagner, Duke of Erl
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Tags: Andrew Foster-Williams, Bregenz, Bregenzer Festspielchor, Bregenzer Festspiele, Es Devlin, Festspielhaus Bregenz, Franck, Georges Bizet, Gérard Korsten, Jordan de Souza, Kasper Holten, Kinderchor der Musik-Mittelschule Bregenz, Lena Belkina, Martin Muehle, Mélissa Petit, Messiaen, Paweł Zalejski, Piotr Szumieł, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Seebühne, Sinfonia concertante, Symphonie-Orchester Vorarlberg, Un sourire, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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