Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Hampson’
Sunday, January 31st, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 31, 2016 MUNICH — Three years ago Bavarian State Opera’s yearly Silvester performances of Die Fledermaus came to a sudden, poorly excused halt. Never mind that they were a global signature of the company; Carlos Kleiber famously led ten of them. As substitutes, the powers-that-be provided La traviata (Verdi was […]
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Tags: Andreas Weirich, Anna Prohaska, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bo Skovhus, Carlos Kleiber, Christian Rieger, Cornelius Obonya, Die Fledermaus, Edgaras Montvidas, Johann Strauß, Kirill Petrenko, Marlis Petersen, Michael Nagy, Michaela Selinger, München, Munich, Review, Thomas Hampson
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Friday, April 12th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid If tradition means not preserving the ashes but fanning the flames, in the words of Gustav Mahler, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is celebrating its 125th anniversary with one foot firmly planted in the past and the other striding fearlessly into the future. Between a tour of six continents this season, the orchestra […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Beyond the Score, Bob Zimmerman, Ernst von Siemens Prize, Gramophone, Janine Jansen, Lang Lang, Mahler, Mariss Jansons, musical america, New World Symphony, Prince Willem-Alexander, Princess Máxima, Prokofiev, Queen Beatrix, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Saint-Saens, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Thomas Hampson, Vienna Philharmonic, wagner, Willem Mengelberg
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Three Operas Far be it for this occasional operagoer to butt heads with Peter G. Davis in a work I barely know. “What are you doing at an Italian opera performance?” he asked me in feigned horror on opening night of the Met’s revival of Verdi’s Macbeth (3/15). “I’m here for the […]
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Tags: Carlo Bergonzi, carnegie, Diana Damrau, Franz Schmidt, leon botstein, Lori Guilbeau, Mariusz, Murray Perahia, Noseda, Paganini, Peter G. Davis, Rachel Barton Pine, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stephen Powell, Thomas Hampson, Wozzeck
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