Posts Tagged ‘Richard Strauss’
Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
By: Frank Cadenhead Where is Stephen Colbert when you need him? He certainly could do a comedy routine about the train wreck that is the opening of the musical season in Paris this year. The goofiness of multiple openings of world-class events on the same day would get lots of laughs. In his absence I […]
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Tags: Anja Harteros, Annick Boccon-Gibod, bryn terfel, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniel Harding, Daniele Gatti, Edouard Foure Caul-Futy, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Emmanuel Krivine, Marcelo Alvarez, mikko franck, Opéra National de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Renaud Capuçon, Richard Strauss, Stéphane Denève
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Friday, October 31st, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 31, 2014 SALZBURG — Alexander Pereira is now gone from the main festival here, and two tenuous summers are in the offing before Markus Hinterhäuser replaces him as Intendant in 2017. His exit, under a cloud, ends a budget tempest but threatens reversals of worthy initiatives he took: lengthening the […]
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Tags: Academy of St Martin In the Fields, Alexander Pereira, Bartoli, Beethoven, Brahms, Commentary, Damiano Michieletto, Ensemble Matheus, Enzo Capuano, Felsenreitschule, Fierrabras, Gluck, Haus für Mozart, Haydn, Helga Rabl-Stadler, Ingo Metzmacher, Ivor Bolton, Javier Camarena, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Julia Kleiter, La Cenerentola, Markus Hinterhäuser, Mendelssohn, Michail Lifits, Mozarteum, Mozarteumorchester, Murray Perahia, Nicola Alaimo, Peter Stein, Review, Richard Strauss, Rolando Villazón, Rossini, Salzburg, Salzburg Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Schubert, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Tomo Keller, Ugo Guagliardo, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vilde Frang, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Saturday, June 21st, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 21, 2014 SCHWETZINGEN — The right setting makes all the difference. At the palace here, a probing six-week spring music festival mirrors the scale and serenity of its context, courtesy each year of Stuttgart broadcaster SWR. Two days last month afforded a sampling of the extended activities: the melodic Arcadian […]
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Tags: Anna Lucia Richter, Brahms, Christian Tetzlaff, Claudia Rohrbach, Concerto Köln, Francisco Fernández Rueda, Hasse, Holger Falk, Junghänel, Lars Vogt, Leucippo, Mannheim, Marx, Michael Gees, Netta Or, Review, Richard Strauss, Schwetzingen, Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Südwest-Rundfunk, SWR, Tanja Tetzlaff, Tatjana Gürbaca, Vasily Khoroshev, Virpi Raisanen
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid Richard Strauss was a man of many masks, from his intimate piano songs to the demonic outpourings of his stage works and tone poems. Following a semi-staging of his second opera, Feuersnot, in Dresden, where it premiered in 1901, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig came to the Saxon capital on June 9 to stake […]
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Tags: Alter Schlachthof, Cameron Carpenter, Dresden, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, J.S. Bach, leonard bernstein, Riccardo Chailly, Richard Strauss, Semperoper, touring organ
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Friday, May 16th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid Classical music historiography of the 20th century tends to create neatly delineated periods, with World War Two creating a kind of indelible caesura in all things aesthetic and philosophical. This is particularly true in Germany, where the Nachkriegszeit (post-war period) is defined as a veritable epoch: a time in which the country […]
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Tags: Aco Aleksander Bišćević, Allan Clayton, Andreas Ottensamer, Aribert Reimann, barrie kosky, Castor et Pollux, Cenk Sahin, Christian Curnyn, David Robert Coleman, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Frans Helmerson, Gili Schwarzman, Guy Braunstein, Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, Jonathan Gilad, Katrin Lea Tag, komische oper, Mojca Erdmann, Mor Biron, Nicole Chevalier, Richard Strauss
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Friday, April 11th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 11, 2014 MUNICH — Watching Manfred Honeck lead the Munich Philharmonic in Strauss last Sunday (April 6), a question came to mind. Why isn’t this the man replacing Lorin Maazel next year? With refreshing conviction and broad arm gestures à la Carlos Kleiber, Honeck drew polished performances from the orchestra […]
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Tags: Anja Harteros, Carlos Kleiber, Ein Heldenleben, Gasteig, Lorin Maazel, Manfred Honeck, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Review, Richard Strauss, Rosenkavalier-Suite, Sreten Krstič, Vier letzte Lieder
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Friday, March 7th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 7, 2014 MUNICH — Kirill Petrenko unobtrusively passed the litmus test of Der Rosenkavalier here this week, shaping the score on his own terms (March 5) amid the hoopla of his Bavarian State Opera company’s 2014–15 season announcement. Energetic, vivid, not so flexible, often perilously fast or loud, but dynamically […]
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Tags: Alice Coote, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Der Rosenkavalier, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Kirill Petrenko, Mojca Erdmann, München, Munich, Peter Rose, Review, Richard Strauss, Soile Isokoski
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Friday, November 22nd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 22, 2013 MUNICH — Everything looked ready for its close-up, Mr. DeMille, at Die Frau ohne Schatten last night (Nov. 21). Down to the last falcon feather. When the cameras roll for a Dec. 1 live stream of this new Bavarian State Opera production, the copious blue-greens, red and purple […]
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Tags: Adrianne Pieczonka, Alain Resnais, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Deborah Polaski, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Elena Pankratova, Johan Botha, Kirill Petrenko, Krzysztof Warlikowski, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Review, Richard Strauss, Wolfgang Koch
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Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 12, 2013 MUNICH — Some like to tiptoe into a new job. Kirill Petrenko, 41, prefers to plunge. The fresh Generalmusikdirektor at Bavarian State Opera is now deep in rehearsals for his first production here: Strauss’s ambitious, arduous Die Frau ohne Schatten, uncut apparently. Krzysztof Warlikowski directs. Known in Munich […]
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Tags: Adrianne Pieczonka, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deborah Polaski, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Elena Pankratova, Evgeny Onegin, Johan Botha, Joseph Keilberth, Kirill Petrenko, Krzysztof Warlikowski, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Richard Strauss, Wolfgang Koch
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Sunday, October 13th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 13, 2013 MUNICH — Next Wednesday (Oct. 16) new portraits go on display in Bavarian State Opera’s lobby. Twenty-one new portraits. Astrid Varnay, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kurt Moll, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberová, René Kollo, Hildegard Behrens and Waltraud Meier are among the worthy singing subjects, company troopers all. But […]
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Tags: Anja Harteros, Astrid Varnay, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Brigitte Fassbaender, Christian Gerhaher, Clemens Krauss, Commentary, Diana Damrau, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Edita Gruberová, Fritz Wunderlich, Heinrich Vogl, Hermann Prey, Hildegard Behrens, Joseph Keilberth, Júlia Várady, Kaufmann, Kent Nagano, Kirill Petrenko, Klaus Florian Vogt, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Margaret Price, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Nina Stemme, Peter Jonas, Peter Seiffert, René Kollo, Richard Strauss, Therese Vogl, Waltraud Meier, Wolfgang Brendel, Wolfgang Koch, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Zubin Mehta
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