Posts Tagged ‘Bayerisches Staatsorchester’
Sunday, October 13th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 13, 2013 MUNICH — Next Wednesday (Oct. 16) new portraits go on display in Bavarian State Opera’s lobby. Twenty-one new portraits. Astrid Varnay, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kurt Moll, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberová, René Kollo, Hildegard Behrens and Waltraud Meier are among the worthy singing subjects, company troopers all. But […]
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Tags: Anja Harteros, Astrid Varnay, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Brigitte Fassbaender, Christian Gerhaher, Clemens Krauss, Commentary, Diana Damrau, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Edita Gruberová, Fritz Wunderlich, Heinrich Vogl, Hermann Prey, Hildegard Behrens, Joseph Keilberth, Júlia Várady, Kaufmann, Kent Nagano, Kirill Petrenko, Klaus Florian Vogt, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Margaret Price, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Nina Stemme, Peter Jonas, Peter Seiffert, René Kollo, Richard Strauss, Therese Vogl, Waltraud Meier, Wolfgang Brendel, Wolfgang Koch, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Zubin Mehta
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Friday, June 28th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 28, 2013 MUNICH — It helps when two of Caruso’s “four greatest singers” live nearby, the more so when they act as capably as they sing. That was the edge enjoyed by Bavarian State Opera in restaging Verdi’s Il trovatore to open its 138-year-old Munich Opera Festival yesterday, one of […]
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Tags: Alexey Markov, Anja Harteros, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Elena Manistina, Giuseppe Verdi, Kaufmann, Kwangchul Youn, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Nikolaus Bachler, Olivier Py, Paolo Carignani, Review
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Saturday, June 8th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 8, 2013 MUNICH — The drama of Verdi’s Genovese opera Simon Boccanegra, circa 1339 and 1363, pivots on the protagonist’s Solomon-like statecraft and courage, as deployed in the Council Chamber scene of Act I. Here plebeo and patrizio powers, emotional and familial woes, jostle compellingly. In his new* staging for […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bertrand de Billy, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Giuseppe Verdi, Kristine Opolais, München, Munich, Review, Simon Boccanegra, Stefano Secco, Vitalij Kowaljow, Željko Lučić
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 2, 2013 MUNICH — A short walk separates two of this city’s four opera houses: the Cuvilliés Theater, where Mozart conducted Idomeneo, and the National Theater, where Hans von Bülow led the first Tristan und Isolde. Ensconced half way stands the Court Church of All Saints, an 1837 neo-Romanesque, quasi-Byzantine […]
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Tags: Allerheiligen Hofkirche, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bayern München, Brahms, Court Church of All Saints, Cuvilliés Theater, Echo Klassik Award, Farao Classics, Johannes Dengler, Julian Riem, Koechlin, Lennox Berkeley, Markus Wolf, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Review
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Saturday, May 4th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 4, 2013 MUNICH — Ádám Fischer keenly propelled a revival here last night (May 3) of Stephan Kimmig’s 3½-year-old, shipping-container staging of Don Giovanni for Bavarian State Opera. Predictably the music fared better than the dramma. Hanna-Elisabeth Müller brought an evenly produced, warmly intoned Zerlina. After a tenuous start coping […]
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Tags: Ádám Fischer, Alex Esposito, Annette Dasch, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Constantinos Carydis, Don Giovanni, Erin Wall, Gerald Finley, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, München, Munich, Review, Stephan Kimmig, Tareq Nazmi, William Burden, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 21, 2013 MUNICH — As dramaturgy, Calixto Bieito’s new staging here of Mussorgsky’s seven‑scene 1869 Boris Godunov (heard and seen yesterday, Feb. 20) runs into trouble almost immediately. Set in present‑day Russia — identifiable by the up‑to‑date, thug‑police gear and the wall map in Boris’s Terem (Scene V) — it […]
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Tags: Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Anatoli Kotcherga, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bieito, Boris Godunov, Gerhard Siegel, Kent Nagano, Kevin Conners, Mezzo TV, München, Munich, Mussorgsky, Okka von der Damerau, Review, Sergei Skorokhodov, Staatsoper Hamburg, Vladimir Matorin, Vladimir Putin
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 23, 2013 MUNICH — With the city council’s blessing today of Valery Gergiev’s hire as the next Chefdirigent of the Munich Philharmonic, all three of the Bavarian capital’s globally renowned orchestras will be in Soviet-born hands by late 2015. This September, 40-year-old Kirill Petrenko of Omsk, Siberia, finally takes over […]
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Tags: Abendzeitung, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Kirill Petrenko, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Valery Gergiev
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Thursday, October 11th, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 11, 2012 MUNICH — Arts groups here present a restrained 2012–13 season facing pros and cons not always aligned with those in America. Funding, for instance, holds steady: city and state (Bavaria) play their part, as do local corporations Siemens, BMW, Audi, Allianz and Linde. Excellent pools of musicians, instrumental […]
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Tags: Alexander Liebreich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, BR Chor, Brigitte Fassbaender, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Constantinos Carydis, Cuvilliés Theater, Don Pasquale, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Jenůfa, Kent Nagano, Lorin Maazel, MKO, Münchener Kammerorchester, Münchner Philharmoniker, Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester, Münchner Symphoniker, Munich Philharmonic, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Peter Dijkstra, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Tomáš Hanus, Ulf Schirmer
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