Posts Tagged ‘Akademie der Künste’
Friday, May 17th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid The tolerance of German audiences for extreme stage productions is a source of national pride and the envy of many abroad. But a production of Tannhäuser at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein which had to be stripped down to concert performance last week has set off a national debate about the sanctity […]
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Tags: Akademie der Künste, bayreuth festival, Burkhard C. Kosminski, Cicero, Der Spiegel, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Hitler, Holocaust, Klaus Staeck, musical america, Patrice Chéreau, Rebecca Schmid, richard wagner, Sebastian Baumgartner, stefan herheim, Tannhäuser, World War Two
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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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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Infektion!, the name of the Staatsoper’s annual Festival for New Music Theater could easily extend to describe the presence of John Cage in Germany this year. No other country outside the U.S. has planned as many events for his centenary of his birth, and Berlin is in some people’s minds already ‘Caged […]
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