Posts Tagged ‘Handel’
Monday, November 12th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Fans of Joyce DiDonato may find it hard to fathom that one of today’s leading bel canto singers and Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year is just spreading her stardom to Germany. The Kansas native has sung only once at a Berlin opera house, performing Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at […]
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Tags: Alan Curtis, Cesti, Dmitry Sinkovksy, Drama Queens, Handel, Il Complesso Barocco, Joyce DiDonato, Keiser, Konzerthaus Berlin, Porta, Virgin records, Vivaldi
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Few operas in history have gripped the human psyche to the same extent as Don Giovanni. Pushkin, Kierkegaard, and Bernard Shaw count among the literary figures to have written their own account of the daemonic seductor since Mozart and Da Ponte staged their ‘drama giocoso,’ a tragi-comedy, in Prague. Since the 19th […]
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Tags: Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Andrea Palent, anna netrebko, Anna Prohaska, Anthony Holgborne, Berlin Philharmonic, Boulevard Unter den Linden, C.P.E. Bach, Christian Schmidt, Christopher Maltman, Claus Guth, Da Ponte, Daniel Barenboim, dante, Don Giovanni, Dowland, Emmanuel Pahud, Erwin Schrott, Fine Arts Brass, Freundschaftsinsel, Friedrich the Great, Giuseppe Filianoti, Handel, Haydn Mendelssohn, Jürgen Flimm, La Scala, Maria Bengtsson, Meccore Quartet, mozart, Musikfestspiele Potsdam sanssouci, Peter Maxwell Davies, Potsdam, Purcell, Quantz, Robert Carsen, Röschmann, Rousseau, Salzburg Festival, Sanssouci, Schiller Theater, Staatsoper Berlin, Stefan Kocan, Water Music
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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 […]
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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’