Posts Tagged ‘Schiller Theater’
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
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid In an age of pervasive digital technology and avatars, it was only a matter of time before virtual experience infiltrated the concert hall. No handmade reeds, no tailcoats. Instead, over 70 synthesized speakers encircling the audience. The Berlin-based ensemble phase7, for a new production of Morton Feldman’s opera Neither, has replaced the […]
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Tags: A l'Arme!, avant-garde jazz, Die Tote Stadt, Eir Inderhaug, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, free jazz, John Coltrane, Ken Vandermark, Korngold, Kreuzberg, Louis Rastig, Morton Feldman, Neither, Neneh Cherry, Okkyung Lee, Ornette Coleman, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Evans, phase 7, Radialsystem, Rome Opera, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Leonard, Schiller Theater, Sun Ra, Sydney Opera House, The Cherry Thing, The Fifth Element, The Thing, University of Potsdam
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Infektion!, the name of the Staatsoper’s annual Festival for New Music Theater could easily extend to describe the presence of John Cage in Germany this year. No other country outside the U.S. has planned as many events for his centenary of his birth, and Berlin is in some people’s minds already ‘Caged […]
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Tags: Akademie der Künste, Alfredo Daza, Carl Darlhaus, Daniel Barenboim, Darmstadt, Die Zauberflöte, Dionysus, Don Giovanni, Elin Rombo, Esther Lee, Europeras, Frankfurt, Günther Albers, Infektion!, Ingo Metzmacher, Isabel Ostermann, James Cleverton, Joan La Barbara, John Cage, Jonathan Meese, Jorge Jara, Julia Faylenbogen, Liszt, MärzMusik, Matthias Klink, Mojca Erdmann, MOMA, mozart, Nicholas Isherwood, Nietzsche, Pierre Audi, Proserpina, Qi Gong, René Pape, Robert Farkas, Roman Trekel, Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg Festival, Schiller Theater, Sonic Arts Lounge, Sophia Simitzis, Staatsoper Berlin, Virpi Raisanen, wagner, Walkyrie, Wolfgang Rihm
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Few operas in history have gripped the human psyche to the same extent as Don Giovanni. Pushkin, Kierkegaard, and Bernard Shaw count among the literary figures to have written their own account of the daemonic seductor since Mozart and Da Ponte staged their ‘drama giocoso,’ a tragi-comedy, in Prague. Since the 19th […]
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Tags: Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Andrea Palent, anna netrebko, Anna Prohaska, Anthony Holgborne, Berlin Philharmonic, Boulevard Unter den Linden, C.P.E. Bach, Christian Schmidt, Christopher Maltman, Claus Guth, Da Ponte, Daniel Barenboim, dante, Don Giovanni, Dowland, Emmanuel Pahud, Erwin Schrott, Fine Arts Brass, Freundschaftsinsel, Friedrich the Great, Giuseppe Filianoti, Handel, Haydn Mendelssohn, Jürgen Flimm, La Scala, Maria Bengtsson, Meccore Quartet, mozart, Musikfestspiele Potsdam sanssouci, Peter Maxwell Davies, Potsdam, Purcell, Quantz, Robert Carsen, Röschmann, Rousseau, Salzburg Festival, Sanssouci, Schiller Theater, Staatsoper Berlin, Stefan Kocan, Water Music
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