Posts Tagged ‘Dresden’
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid Richard Strauss was a man of many masks, from his intimate piano songs to the demonic outpourings of his stage works and tone poems. Following a semi-staging of his second opera, Feuersnot, in Dresden, where it premiered in 1901, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig came to the Saxon capital on June 9 to stake […]
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Tags: Alter Schlachthof, Cameron Carpenter, Dresden, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, J.S. Bach, leonard bernstein, Riccardo Chailly, Richard Strauss, Semperoper, touring organ
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 19, 2012 DRESDEN — Christian Thielemann made his opera debut here yesterday (Nov. 18), thirty-seven long months after agreeing to replace Fabio Luisi as Chefdirigent of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, effectively music director of the Semperoper company. The vehicle, Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s 12-year-old, quasi-faithful staging of Der Rosenkavalier — notable […]
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Tags: Christian Thielemann, Daniela Fally, Daniela Sindram, Der Rosenkavalier, Dresden, Dresden Staatskapelle, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Luisi, Review, Richard Strauss, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Semperoper, Soile Isokoski, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Wolfgang Bankl
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The theme of this year’s Dresdener Musikfestspiele, “Herz Europas” (the Heart of Europe), inventively returns the East German city to its roots as a thriving cultural hub. While today’s united Germany is roiled by the end of the ‘Merkozy’ era and Eurobond controversy, the emphasis of the festival (May 15-June 3) on […]
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