Posts Tagged ‘Prinz-Regenten-Theater’
Sunday, August 7th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 7, 2016 MUNICH — Two evenings after an “Allahu Akbar” eruption here cost nine mostly teenage, mostly Muslim, lives, it felt perverse to indulge in 280-year-old French escapism stretching to Turkey, Peru, Iran and the future United States. But there we were July 24 in the Prinz-Regenten-Theater for Bavarian State […]
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Tags: Ana Quintans, Anna Prohaska, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Compagnie Eastman, Cyril Auvity, Elsa Benoit, François Lis, Goran Jurić, Ivor Bolton, John Moore, Kritik, Les Indes galantes, Lisette Oropesa, Mathias Vidal, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Rameau, Review, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Tareq Nazmi
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Friday, March 18th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 18, 2016 MUNICH — It would be a novelty to hear Le vin herbé the way composer Frank Martin conceived it. The 1940 secular chamber oratorio reportedly soars when realized in concert by twelve French-singing voices, double string trio, double bass and piano — its lean forces yet complex harmony […]
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Tags: Andreas Burkhart, Barbara Fleckenstein, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, BR Klassik, CD, Frank Martin, Howard Arman, Johanna Winkel, Johannes-Passion, Le vin herbé, Marcel Reijans, München, Munich, Peter Dijkstra, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Tareq Nazmi
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Monday, June 29th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 29, 2015 MUNICH — Noisy and sustained boos fell upon stage director Christiane Pohle and her team after Pelléas et Mélisande last night here in the Prinz-Regenten-Theater. Though not uncommon in this epoch of Regietheater, the intensity of the scorn for Bavarian State Opera’s new production was alarming coming from […]
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Tags: Alastair Miles, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Christiane Pohle, Commentary, Constantinos Carydis, Debussy, Elena Tsallagova, Elliot Madore, Hanno Eilers, Kritik, Markus Eiche, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Nikolaus Bachler, Okka von der Damerau, Pelléas et Mélisande, Peter Lobert, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Tölzer Knabenchor
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Sunday, April 26th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 26, 2015 MUNICH — He will always be attached to Rossini, but Michele Mariotti, 36, can probe and illuminate a vast repertory besides. This much was evident March 23 in a refreshing return engagement with the Münchner Symphoniker. The Pesaro-born maestro’s podium technique and constructive manner recall another Rossinian, the […]
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Tags: Guillaume Tell, Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Mendelssohn, Michele Mariotti, München, Münchner Symphoniker, Munich, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Ray Chen, Review, Rossini, Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 16, 2015 MUNICH — Ivo Pogorelich wants to continue to play. He has recital programs planned out till 2020. He keeps several concertos in his repertory, the Chopin F-Minor and Prokofiev Third performed here persuasively in recent seasons. He is “pleased,” he writes, about a new box of his old […]
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Tags: Bell’Arte, Brahms, Dante Sonata, Ivo Pogorelich, Liszt, München, Munich, Paganini Variations, Piano, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Schumann, Stravinsky, Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka
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Monday, March 24th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 24, 2014 MUNICH — Few conductors can jump into a Berg-Zemlinsky-Honegger program on three days’ notice and lead it fluently without change. Enter Clement Power (33), a gray-haired Londoner, for the Münchener Kammerorchester’s March 13 subscription concert here at the Prinz-Regenten-Theater. The newcomer showed an easy rapport with the players […]
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Tags: Alexander Liebreich, Berg, Clement Power, Drei Stücke aus der Lyrischen Suite, ECM Records, Goethe Institute, Honegger, Maiblumen blühten überall, MKO, München, Münchener Kammerorchester, Munich, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Reinbert de Leeuw, Review, Rupprecht Drees, Sandrine Piau, Sieben frühe Lieder, Zemlinsky
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Sunday, December 22nd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 22, 2013 MUNICH — Somewhere between the patent introspection of his new Mompou CD* and the tags of his early Stateside career — “big bravura pianist,” “new Horowitz” — lies an accurate description of Arcadi Volodos. It may simply be this: German Romantic, as in Schumann and Brahms, with impressionist […]
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Tags: Alexei Volodin, Antonio Gaudí, Arcadi Volodos, Bell’Arte, Brahms, CD, Jeunes filles au jardin, Kinderszenen, Mompou, München, Munich, Música callada, Piano, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Riccardo Chailly, Scènes d’enfants, Schubert, Schumann, Sony Classical
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Saturday, November 2nd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 2, 2013 MUNICH — Can music be sincere and ironic at the same time? Ask Peter Dijkstra, the artistic leader of the BR Chor who last weekend (Oct. 26) led Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle as billed. Solemnly. The result sounded not much like Rossini. Nobody smiled, and the musicians looked […]
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Tags: Andreas Groethuysen, Anke Vondung, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eric Cutler, Giuseppe Verdi, Max Hanft, Michael Volle, München, Munich, Pater noster, Peter Dijkstra, Petite messe solennelle, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Regula Mühlemann, Review, Rossini, Yaara Tal
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Saturday, August 24th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 24, 2013 MUNICH — What is written on skin? Craftsmanship “as immaculate as anything … composed since the heyday of Ravel” and “glimpses of a 21st-century tonality,” if you read Alex Ross in The New Yorker. And “a psychologically gripping, emotionally heart-pounding and viscerally satisfying drama,” according to Corinna da […]
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Tags: Barbara Hannigan, Christopher Purves, Eva Reiter, George Benjamin, Iestyn Davies, John Allan Clayton, Katie Mitchell, Kent Nagano, Klangforum Wien, Marie Victoria Simmonds, Martin Crimp, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Philipp Alexander Marguerre, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Written On Skin
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 9, 2013 MUNICH — With the brightness of his voice working against him at every turn, Pavol Breslik blazed and sweated his way through Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin last Friday (July 5) here at the Prinz-Regenten-Theater. By the end, drowned in Wilhelm Müller’s creek, he had somehow won over the […]
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Tags: Amir Katz, Die schöne Müllerin, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Pavol Breslik, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Schubert, Wilhelm Müller
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