Posts Tagged ‘Kaufmann’
Sunday, November 26th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 26, 2017 MUNICH — Post is under revision. Photos © Arthaus, BelAir Classiques, Querstand, Supraphon, Warner Classics Related posts: Winter Discs Time for Schwetzingen Ives: Violin Sonatas on CD Chung to Conduct for Trump Manon, Let’s Go
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Tags: Agnieszka Rehlis, Aida, Aldo Protti, Aleksandra Kurzak, Andrea Chénier, Anja Harteros, Anton Bruckner, Antonino Votto, Antonio Pappano, Arthaus, Artur Ruciński, Badischer Staatsopernchor, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bayreuther Festspiele, BelAir Classiques, Bellini, Berg, Berlioz, Birgit Nilsson, Bo Skovhus, Bohumil Gregor, Callas, CD, Cesare Valletti, Choeur de l’Opéra du Rhin, Choeur Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Cigánské melodie, Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Coro della Cappella Musicale Pontificia, Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Cypresses, Cypřiše, Daniela Sindram, Deutsche Grammophon, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Dmitry Korchak, DVD, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Enzo Mascherini, Erato, Erwin Schrott, Eugenia Ratti, Fiorenza Cossotto, Gewandhaus-Orchester, Gino Penno, Giordano, Giuseppe Modesti, Giuseppe Verdi, Gypsy Melodies, Hanna Hipp, Haydn, Herbert Blomstedt, Herbert von Karajan, Italo Tajo, Ivo Žídek, Jacek Kaspszyk, John Nelson, Joyce DiDonato, Karel Berman, Karl Böhm, Kaufmann, Kirill Petrenko, La sonnambula, Leif Ove Andsnes, Leoš Janáček, Les Troyens, Libuše Prylová, Litany to the Virgin Mary, Macbeth, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Mario del Monaco, Marlis Petersen, Martti Talvela, Massimo Palombella, Matthias Klink, Michael Spyres, Missa Papae Marcelli, Nicolas Courjal, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Palestrina, Pavol Breslik, Piero Cappuccilli, Plácido Domingo, Prague National Theatre, Premysl Kočí, Querstand, Raina Kabaivanska, Review, Róbert Pechanec, Rudolf Vonásek, Sistine Chapel Choir, Stéphane Degout, Supraphon, Szymanowski, Teatro alla Scala, Tézier, Tristan und Isolde, Věc Makropulos, Victor de Sabata, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Warner Classics, Warsaw Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wolfgang Windgassen
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 13, 2017 MUNICH — Philipp Stölzl’s new and relatively sane production of Andrea Chénier will be video-streamed Saturday by Bavarian State Opera as part of a regular free service. — when: 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT), March 18, 2017 — where: https://www.staatsoper.de/tv.html Omer Meir Wellber brings his inimitable visceral […]
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Tags: Andrea Chénier, Anja Harteros, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Giordano, Kaufmann, Luca Salsi, München, Munich, News, Omer Meir Wellber, Philipp Stölzl
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 17, 2016 MUNICH — When Anja Harteros was singing her first Toscas three seasons ago, it was clear she had the vocal resources for the role, and the Mediterranean temperament. Even so, the portrayal didn’t quite compute. Enter Bryn Terfel, a Scarpia to rattle the aloofest, longest-legged of prima donnas. […]
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Tags: Anja Harteros, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bondy, Giacomo Puccini, Kaufmann, Kirill Petrenko, Kritik, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Review, Terfel, Tölzer Knabenchor, Tosca
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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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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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Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 31, 2015 MUNICH — Arts projects in Europe with any visual aspect to them nowadays migrate to DVD whether or not there is a need, partly to justify public subsidy through distribution. Many are operas filmed too often, like Nationaltheater Mannheim’s just-released Der Ring des Nibelungen, which joins DVD tetralogies […]
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Tags: Alessandro Corbelli, Alvis Hermanis, Anne Sofie von Otter, Antifonale Ambrosiano, Antonio Pappano, Archiv, Armonia Atenea, Bartoli, Bejun Mehta, Benoît Jacquot, Berlin Philharmonic, Bernadette Manca di Nissa, B’Rock Orchestra Ghent, CD, Daniel Behle, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Die Soldaten, DVD, Edgardo Rocha, Emmanuelle Haïm, Erato, EuroArts, Frédéric Antoun, Georg Friedrich Händel, George Petrou, Gluck, Hippolyte et Aricie, Ingo Metzmacher, Iphigénie en Aulide, Iphigénie en Tauride, Ivan Alexandre, Javier Camarena, Jean-François Lapointe, John Osborn, Kaufmann, Kolokola, Konstantin Wolff, Kristina Hammarström, Laura Aikin, Laurent Alvaro, Le comte Ory, Le Concert d’Astrée, Libreria Musicale Italiana, Liliana Nikiteanu, Lo frate ’nnamorato, London Symphony Orchestra, Luciana d’Intino, Marc Minkowski, Massenet, Michel Plasson, Mikhail Petrenko, Mireille Delunsch, Moshe Leiser, Muhai Tang, Nicolas Testé, Nuccia Focile, Oliver Widmer, Opéra National de Paris, Opernhaus Zürich, Opus Arte, Orlando, Otello, Patrice Caurier, Pergolesi, Peter Kálmán, Pierre Audi, Rachmaninoff, Rameau, Rebeca Olvera, René Jacobs, Review, Riccardo Muti, Roberto de Simone, Rolando Villazón, Rossini, Simon Rattle, Sophie Karthäuser, Sophie Koch, Stéphane Degout, Sunhae Im, Teatro alla Scala, Ugo Guagliardo, Véronique Gens, Vienna Philharmonic, Warner Classics, Werther, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yann Beuron, Zimmermann
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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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Thursday, April 10th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 10, 2014 MUNICH — Local tenor Jonas Kaufmann and his wife, mezzo-soprano Margarete Joswig, have jointly announced their separation. The musicians began their careers in the middle 1990s. Both sang early on for the Saarländisches Staatstheater and at the Brahms Days festival in Tutzing, just south of here. They have […]
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Tags: Brahms Days, Brahmstage, Kaufmann, Margarete Joswig, München, Munich, News, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Tutzing
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Friday, December 27th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 27, 2013 MUNICH — Martin Kušej’s new staging of La forza del destino for Bavarian State Opera opened Dec. 22 and is due for streaming tomorrow. Well cast, it alas trivializes the feud and the questions of honor and destiny that excited Verdi and his librettist Piave, despite being the […]
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Tags: Abu Ghraib, Anja Harteros, Asher Fisch, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Franz Werfel, Giuseppe Verdi, Guantánamo, Karl Böhm, Kaufmann, Kušej, La forza del destino, München, Munich, Nadia Krasteva, Piave, Renato Girolami, Review, Tézier, Vitalij Kowaljow
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 13, 2013 MUNICH — Olivier Py’s neon-lit vaudeville vision of Il trovatore is back, with cast adjustments. At the performance on Nov. 9, Krassimira Stoyanova introduced a cool-timbred Leonora of a certain age, her versatile and expressive top reflecting keen musicianship. Vitaliy Bilyy lurched about in hammy fits as di […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Elena Manistina, Giuseppe Verdi, Goran Jurić, Kaufmann, Krassimira Stoyanova, München, Munich, Olivier Py, Paolo Carignani, Review, Vitaliy Bilyy
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