Posts Tagged ‘Konzerthaus Berlin’
Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid A saying goes that where words stop, music begins. Trite as this may sound, The Red Heifer, a one-act opera by Iván Fischer which made its German premiere at the Konzerthaus last week, serves as a powerful example. As a reaction to right-wing politics in modern-day Hungary, Fischer’s home country, the work […]
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Tags: Carola Höhn, David Robert Coleman, Iván Fischer, Jozsef Csapo, Jozsef Gyabronka, Jürgen Flimm, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kyra Varga, Orsolya Sáfár, Otto Katzameier, Red HeJonatán Kovácsifer, Salvatore Sciarrino, staatsoper unter den linden, Stephen Chambers, Timothy Sharp
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on The Red Heifer at the Konzerthaus; Macbeth haunts the Staatsoper
Friday, May 23rd, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid The story of Billy Budd, a Herman Melville story which became the basis for Britten’s now classic opera, revolves around a seaman whose allure is so strong that John Claggart, the Master-at-arms on an 18th century war ship, conspires to eradicate his presence. Fate takes a strange twist when Budd, reduced to […]
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Tags: Alfred Brendel, Benjman Britten, Billy Budd, Burkhard Ulrich, David Alden, Deutsche Oper, Donald Runnicles, Francesco Piemontesi, Gidon Saks, John Chest, Konzerthaus Berlin, Maxine Braham, Paul Steinberg, Thomas Blondelle, Tobias Kehrer
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Artists on the Rise at the Deutsche Oper and the Konzerthaus
Friday, March 14th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin presented what was announced as a “French evening” on March 12 featuring the German premiere of Dutilleux’s Le temps l’horloge. The RSB has its share of competition between the Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsche-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (another orchestra with broadcast roots), the Staatskapelle and others. But it was a surprise to see […]
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Tags: Baudelaire, Bohuslav Martinu, Claude Debussy, Deutsche Grammophon, Henri Dutilleux, Konzerthaus Berlin, Laura Aikin, Le temps l’horloge, Ludovic Morlot, MusicalAmerica.com, Rebecca Schmid, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on At the Konzerthaus, a German Premiere and a half-empty Hall
Friday, August 23rd, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid The season is already underway in flying colors at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Iván Fischer, following an enthusiastically received appearance at the Mostly Mozart Festival, unveiled his concert staging of Le Nozze di Figaro yesterday featuring much of the same cast alongside the Konzerthausorchester. It was a pleasure to see the concert house’s […]
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Tags: Andrew Shore, Ann Murray, György Kertész, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Iván Fischer, Konzerthaus Berlin, Laura Tatulescu, Matteo Peirone, Miah Persson, Mostly Mozart, MusicalAmerica.com, Nozze di Figaro, Rachel Frenkel, Roman Trekel
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Opera on the Gendarmenmarkt: Iván Fischer’s ‘Marriage of Figaro’
Friday, November 16th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid As Regietheater becomes the norm on opera stages in Germany, it is a pleasant, if not shocking, surprise to see a production of Die Zauberflöte that looks like a throwback to the time of its world premiere. The Staatsoper Berlin has revived a 1994 staging modelled after designs by the nineteenth-century Prussian […]
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Tags: Adriane Queiroz, Alina Anca, Anna Lapkovskaja, August Everding, Aurelius Sängerknaben, Carola Höhn, Daniel Barenboim, Die Zauberflöte, Emmanuel Schikaneder, Friedrich Wilhelm, Julien Salemkour, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kyungho Kim, Narine Yeghiyan, Pavol Breslik, Rebecca Schmid, René Pape, Roman Trekel, Rowan Hellier, Schiller Theater, Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, The Magic Flute, W.A. Mozart
Posted in Berlin Times, Uncategorized | Comments Off on ‘The Magic Flute’ regains its Classical Garb
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
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Drama Queen of the Year visits Berlin