Posts Tagged ‘Bayerischer Staatsopernchor’
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 17, 2016 MUNICH — Beckmesser blew his brains out at the end of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg last night here in the Nationaltheater. That was after first aiming his gun at the back of the head of Sachs, and after a graphically brutal beating by David and bat-wielding apprentices had […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Benjamin Bruns, Christof Fischesser, David Bösch, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Kaufmann, Kirill Petrenko, Kritik, Markus Eiche, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Review, Sara Jakubiak, Sören Eckhoff, Tareq Nazmi, Wolfgang Koch
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Sunday, January 31st, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 31, 2016 MUNICH — Three years ago Bavarian State Opera’s yearly Silvester performances of Die Fledermaus came to a sudden, poorly excused halt. Never mind that they were a global signature of the company; Carlos Kleiber famously led ten of them. As substitutes, the powers-that-be provided La traviata (Verdi was […]
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Tags: Andreas Weirich, Anna Prohaska, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bo Skovhus, Carlos Kleiber, Christian Rieger, Cornelius Obonya, Die Fledermaus, Edgaras Montvidas, Johann Strauß, Kirill Petrenko, Marlis Petersen, Michael Nagy, Michaela Selinger, München, Munich, Review, Thomas Hampson
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: September 30, 2015 MUNICH — Bavarian State Opera’s irredeemably banal 2009 Aida has been spiffed up and its awkward action scheme apparently restudied for a fall run here. Even so, the honors at Monday’s performance (Sept. 28) belonged firmly with the musicians, instrumental and vocal. Mannheim-based conductor Dan Ettinger exerted a […]
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Tags: Aida, Ain Anger, Anna Smirnova, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Dan Ettinger, Franco Vassallo, Giuseppe Verdi, Kaufmann, Krassimira Stoyanova, Kritik, Marco Spotti, München, Munich, Review
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Thursday, December 11th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 11, 2014 MUNICH — Puccini lost even before the curtain went up Nov. 15 on Hans Neuenfels’ conceptual new staging of Manon Lescaut for Bavarian State Opera. Anna Netrebko, its titular star, abandoned the project in quiet disgust, understandably it turned out. Disaster did not follow, but the night and […]
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Tags: Abbé Prévost, Alain Altinoglu, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Commentary, Dean Power, Der Spiegel, Giacomo Puccini, Hans Neuenfels, Kaufmann, Kristine Opolais, Manon Lescaut, Markus Eiche, München, Munich, Netrebko, Okka von der Damerau, Review, Roland Bracht, Ulrich Reß
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Friday, August 29th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 29, 2014 MUNICH — Staged works and the legendary Lied evenings hold the limelight here at the annual Opernfestspiele, begun 139 years ago. But veins of chamber music and, since 2008, choral programming run through the five-week schedule, lending scope and affirming organizer Bayerische Staatsoper’s depth of musicianship. The chamber […]
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Tags: Adrian Mustea, Allan Bergius, Allerheiligen Hofkirche, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Beethoven, Court Church of All Saints, Cuvilliés Theater, David Schultheiß, Ernö Dohnányi, München, Münchner Hofkantorei, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Petite messe solennelle, Review, Rossini, Sophie Raynaud, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang Antesberger
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Monday, July 7th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 7, 2014 MUNICH — It was standing room only for Die Flut yesterday (July 6). Not only was Boris Blacher’s 1946 radio opera sold out, but the audience was expected to stand or stroll through it, as directed by Aernout Mik at a former riding hall here. Improbably part of […]
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Tags: Aernout Mik, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Boris Blacher, Dean Power, Die Flut, Guy de Maupassant, Heinz von Cramer, Iulia Maria Dan, Kritik, Miklós Sebestyén, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Oksana Lyniv, Reithalle, Review, Tim Kuypers
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Saturday, June 28th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 28, 2014 MUNICH — Verdi’s Macbeth is back, for its eighth run in six years at Bavarian State Opera, this time to open the dressy Opernfestspiele. The production’s giant chandelier, plastic sheeting, silly tent and field of skulls are now globally familiar, even if they don’t exactly transport us to […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Giuseppe Verdi, Ildar Abdrazakov, Joseph Calleja, Kritik, Kušej, Macbeth, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Netrebko, Paolo Carignani, Review, Simon Keenlyside, Sören Eckhoff
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Friday, December 21st, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 21, 2012 MUNICH — They all laughed eight years ago when Bavarian State Opera set Verdi’s Rigoletto on the Planet of the Apes, and the production fast vanished. Naturally, then, the return of the deformed ducal jester in a new régie last Saturday (Dec. 15) promised relative normalcy, perhaps even […]
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Tags: Árpád Schilling, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Franco Vassallo, Giuseppe Verdi, Joseph Calleja, Kritik, Marco Armiliato, München, Munich, Nadia Krasteva, Patricia Petibon, Review, Rigoletto
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