Posts Tagged ‘Munich’
Saturday, July 29th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 29, 2017 MUNICH — Not every week does the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra devote a whole program to music written since 2000. Guest conductor Matthias Pintscher’s concert July 7 in the Herkulessaal proved an exception. It began spatially, extravagantly, with his own fantasy With Lilies White (2002); progressed to a […]
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Tags: Anna-Maria Palii, Augsburger Domsingknaben, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, György Kurtág, Herkulessaal, Jonathan Harvey, Kritik, Mark Andre, Matthias Pintscher, München, Munich, Petite musique solennelle, Review, Sarah Aristidou, Sheva Tehoval, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Vinzenz Löffel, whence … whither, With Lilies White, woher … wohin
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Friday, June 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 16, 2017 MUNICH — Today Berlin got as close to Munich as Vienna already is: four hours by rail. Deutsche Bahn test-trains for the first time ran the recently completed high-speed track between the two German cities, 400 miles apart, and the company promised passenger service starting Dec. 10, the […]
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Tags: Berlin, Deutsche Bahn, High-Speed Rail, ICE, Leipzig, München, Munich, News, Nuremberg, Nürnberg, ÖBB, Railjet, Vienna
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Friday, June 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 16, 2017 MUNICH — An odd thing happened during the curtain calls last evening after a taut, riveting Rusalka here at Bavarian State Opera. The orchestra players made various signs of approval for the cast members’ work, as is customary, and then essentially none for the conductor (and leading lady’s […]
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Tags: Alyona Abramova, Andris Nelsons, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dmytro Popov, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Günther Groissböck, Helena Zubanovich, Kristine Opolais, Kušej, München, Munich, Nadia Krasteva, News, Rachael Wilson, Tara Erraught, Tomáš Hanus, Ulrich Reß
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 16, 2017 MUNICH — Nikolaus Bachler’s Bavarian State Opera has been having its idea of fun with the taxpayer money it receives. In connection with a new Tannhäuser, due May 21, it commissioned for its quarterly Max Joseph magazine a discussion of Wagner’s bacchanale of distant bathing naiads and sedate […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Christoph Koch, Georg Seeßlen, Kirill Petrenko, München, Munich, News, Nikolaus Bachler, Piotr Wyrzykowski, Romeo Castellucci, Tannhäuser
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 2, 2017 MUNICH — Like the miracle of compound interest, Bavarian State Opera’s pricing can chart smartly upwards when you’re not watching. The company sells using an astounding total of 128 price points — the product of eight price categories for its National Theater home and sixteen sliding scales. Things […]
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Tags: Andrea Battistoni, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Charles Castronovo, Giuseppe Verdi, Leo Nucci, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Plácido Domingo, Sonya Yoncheva
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Monday, April 24th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 24, 2017 MUNICH — It was a short courtship by recent standards. Dalmatian conductor Ivan Repušić (pr. REP-oosh-itch), 39, debuted with the Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester in a concert La rondine in Oct. 2015, returned for a gala two months later and signed his contract* last June. His background, happily, is stable: […]
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Tags: BR Chor, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Duruflé, Henry Raudales, Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Ivan Repušić, Ljubomir Puškarić, Max Hanft, München, Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester, Munich, Okka von der Damerau, Respighi, Review
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 13, 2017 MUNICH — Bavaria’s Culture Ministry declined to comment last week on the handicapping of online ticket buyers by Bavarian State Opera, one of the entities it supervises. In theory the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture, Science and Art, to give it its full name, supports culture […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Ludwig Spaenle, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News
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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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Thursday, March 9th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 9, 2017 MUNICH — Making a taut and impassioned case for Mahler’s Tenth Symphony (1910) here at the Herkulessaal Feb. 17, Yannick Nézet-Séguin still rather confirmed Leonard Bernstein’s dictum that the composer “had said it all in the Ninth.” Mahler’s inspiration sustained itself, as tidily executed by the Symphonie-Orchester des […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berg, Dem Andenken eines Engels, Herkulessaal, Mahler, München, Munich, Review, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Veronika Eberle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 7, 2017 MUNICH — Without citing an error, Bavarian State Opera claimed last month that the report here about its handicapping of online ticket buyers contains “false statements” but at the same time said it would “leave it as it is.” The report, based on research by people using two […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, CTS Eventim, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News
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