Archive for May, 2017
Friday, May 19th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 19, 2017 RAVENNA — Sometimes a musician just needs a good partner. Cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne work magically together but have a habit of starting their recitals apart, as if to establish credentials. So it was April 11 here at the Teatro Alighieri, home of the Ravenna […]
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Tags: Alban Gerhardt, Associazione Musicale Angelo Mariani, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Cassadó y Moreu, Debussy, Ravenna, Ravenna Musica, Recensione, Review, Steven Osborne, Teatro Alighieri
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 17, 2017 MUNICH — President Trump will next Friday (May 26) attend his first orchestra concert since taking office. Scheduled for 7 p.m. al fresco at the Teatro Antico in Taormina, Sicily, the program consists of Italian opera overtures and intermezzos: Puccini – Madama Butterfly: Act III Sunrise Rossini – […]
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Tags: Donald Trump, Filarmonica della Scala, G7 Summit, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Mascagni, Myung-Whun Chung, News, Rossini, Taormina, Teatro Antico
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 16, 2017 MUNICH — Nikolaus Bachler’s Bavarian State Opera has been having its idea of fun with the taxpayer money it receives. In connection with a new Tannhäuser, due May 21, it commissioned for its quarterly Max Joseph magazine a discussion of Wagner’s bacchanale of distant bathing naiads and sedate […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Christoph Koch, Georg Seeßlen, Kirill Petrenko, München, Munich, News, Nikolaus Bachler, Piotr Wyrzykowski, Romeo Castellucci, Tannhäuser
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Sunday, May 14th, 2017
By: Frank Cadenhead Today, Sunday May 14, 2017, Emmanuel Macron, the newly-elected President of France is officially installed with much ceremony including a parade down the Champs-Elysées. In an interview on a French classical music website in April, he was asked about his favorite composer. This is his reply: “I have a great admiration for […]
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Tags: Emmanuel Macron, Franz Liszt, Giacomo Rossini, J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 2, 2017 MUNICH — Like the miracle of compound interest, Bavarian State Opera’s pricing can chart smartly upwards when you’re not watching. The company sells using an astounding total of 128 price points — the product of eight price categories for its National Theater home and sixteen sliding scales. Things […]
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Tags: Andrea Battistoni, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Charles Castronovo, Giuseppe Verdi, Leo Nucci, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Plácido Domingo, Sonya Yoncheva
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