Posts Tagged ‘barrie kosky’
Saturday, October 8th, 2016
By: Frank Cadenhead The September 15 press conference was unusually packed for the season announcement of Opéra Comique. After being closed for 18 months and under new management, the interest in the future of this iconic Parisian institution was high. The new director, Olivier Mantei, was the only speaker and occupied the stage for about […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: barrie kosky, Camille Saint-Saëns, Denis Podalydès, Ensemble Pygmalion, Henry Purcell, Jacques Offenbach, Jules Barbier, Katie Mitchell, Komische Oper Berlin, Louis Langrée, Marin Marais, Michel Carré, Olivier Mantei, Philippe Manoury, Raphaël Pichon, Thomas Jolly, Violeta Cruz
Posted in An American in Paris | Comments Off on The Return of the Opéra Comique
Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead The Austrian newspaper, Der Kurier, let drop a great deal of information about what to expect in the future for the Bayreuth Festival. The new Ring in 2020, to the surprise of many, will not be conducted by the new Music Director of the festival, Christian Thielemann, but rather the Boston Symphony’s […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Alvis Hermanis, Andreas Schager, Andris Nelsons, anna netrebko, barrie kosky, bayreuth festival, Berlin Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann, Christine Goerke, Dimitri Tcherniakov, Frank Castorf, Grace Bumbry, Kirill Petrenko, Klaus Florian Vogt, Michael Volle, richard wagner, Roberto Alagna, Simon Rattle, Tobias Kratzer, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Wieland Wagner
Posted in An American in Paris | Comments Off on More Random Thoughts on Bayreuth
Friday, May 16th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid Classical music historiography of the 20th century tends to create neatly delineated periods, with World War Two creating a kind of indelible caesura in all things aesthetic and philosophical. This is particularly true in Germany, where the Nachkriegszeit (post-war period) is defined as a veritable epoch: a time in which the country […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Aco Aleksander Bišćević, Allan Clayton, Andreas Ottensamer, Aribert Reimann, barrie kosky, Castor et Pollux, Cenk Sahin, Christian Curnyn, David Robert Coleman, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Frans Helmerson, Gili Schwarzman, Guy Braunstein, Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, Jonathan Gilad, Katrin Lea Tag, komische oper, Mojca Erdmann, Mor Biron, Nicole Chevalier, Richard Strauss
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on New works at the Jewish Museum; Rameau’s “Castor et Pollux”
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid The Deutsche Oper’s Tischlerei, a new wing for alternative music theater, hosted the results of Neue Szenen—a competition for composition launched by the Hans Eisler Conservatory—on April 8. Three young composers, Evan Gardner, Stefan Johannes Hanke and Leah Muir, emerged from a pool of 52 applicants with their musical settings of a […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Andrew Watts, Anna Politkowskaja, Annelie Sophie Müller, Baldur Brönimann, barrie kosky, Carsten Sabrowski, Chechnya, Chris Meritt, Christoph Nußbaumeder, Claudio Otelli, Czechoslovakia, Deutsche Oper, Echo Ensemble, Eir Inderhaug, Evan Gardner, Georg Bochow, Hans Eisler Conservatory, Julia Giebel, Katharina Thomas, komische oper, Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti, Manuel Nawri, Michael Höppner, MusicalAmerica.com, Neue Szenen, Peter Corrigan, Prokofiev, Rebecca Schmid, Robert Carsen, Sarah Palin, Stefan Johannes Hanke, Tamara Heimbrock, Tansel Akzeybek, Zoe Kissa
Posted in Berlin Times, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Catching up on the opera scene…
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 […]
Read the rest of this article »
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
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on ‘Lulu’ as post-racial Manifesto
Sunday, September 30th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Many American opera-goers, including New Yorkers, look across the ocean and wish that their home institutions would afford themselves the same liberties of programming. Back in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper kicked off its season with a Lachenmann opera, Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, while the Komische Oper launched a Monteverdi trilogy including […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Ambroglio Maestri, anna netrebko, Anne-Catherine Bird, barrie kosky, Bartlett Sher, Berlin, Catherine Zuber, Deutsche Oper, donizetti, Efterklang, Johnny Greenwood, Karsten Fundal, komische oper, Lachenmann, L’Elisir d’Amore, Mariusz Kwiecien, Matthew Polenzani, Maurizio Benini, Met Museum, metropolitan opera, Michael Yeargan, Missy Mazzoli, MONO, NPR, Rebecca Schmid, Worldless Music Orchestra
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on The Elixir fails to work its Magic at Lincoln Center; Efterklang with the Wordless Music Orchestra
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The Komische Oper champions a populist approach through German-language productions and contemporary stage concepts that for some opera goers is synonymous with the most vexing of Regietheater. While the emphasis of the company’s founder Walter Felsenstein on living theater above musical purity remains a locally prized virtue, the house’s attendance rate sank […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Andreas Homoki, barrie kosky, Bertold Brecht, Brigitte Geller, Calixto Bieto, Dagmar Manzel, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Edward James, Gesine Völlm, Hagen Matzeit, Handel, Heike Scheele, Julia Giebel, Karolina Gumos, Katarina Bradic, Kings Theater, komische oper, Konrad Jünghanel, Kristiina Poska, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Manuel Brug, Seven Deadly Sins, stefan herheim, Stella Doufexis, The Three Penny Opera, Thilo Reinhardt, Xerxes
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Winds of Change at the Komische Oper: ‘Xerxes’ and ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
By James Jorden I apologize for long period (two months!) of radio silence: it’s been a very busy spring season in New York, broken up by a two week vacation my traveling companion and I called the “Regietournee,” a sampling of some of the opera direction going on in Germany (and other northern European theaters.) […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: barrie kosky, calixto bieito, doris doerrie, eurotrash, komische oper, otto schenk, regie, revivals, staatsoper unter den linden, symbols, the met
Posted in Rough and Regie | Comments Off on Berlin Diary