Posts Tagged ‘wagner’
Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
By: James Jorden Our old friend Heather Mac Donald is back, ostensibly to mourn the loss of “Petrarchan intimacy with the past“ in the study of the humanities, but, reliably enough, she can’t help taking a swipe at Regietheater while she’s at it. Now, my contact with academia has been scarce and spotty since I […]
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Tags: Big Macs, cell phones, heather mac donald, kinky sex, mozart, nudity, psychopaths, rough and regie, slobs, sluts, snide put-downs of American capitalism, Tchaikovsky, verdi, wagner
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Thursday, October 24th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Whether Parsifal is a supremacist scripture or a mystic journey, we are used to seeing at least one appearance of the Holy Grail or Spear. Wagner, a man of the theater as much as a composer, left clear indications in his libretto about when and how these objects should be deployed in […]
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Tags: Agnieszka Zwierko, Gabriel Chmura, Henrik Vibskov, Hotel Pro Forma, Jerzy Mechliński, Jesper Kongshaug, Kirsten Dehlholm, Krzystof Bączyk, Mark Morouse, parsifal, Poznán Opera, Thomas Mohr, wagner
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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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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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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The author Karl Scheffler famously described Berlin as condemned to forever becoming but never being. When I arrived here nearly two years ago as a DAAD grantee in journalism, the city sprawled out like an unfinished collage. The Philharmonie on the gleaming, rebuilt Potsdamer Platz where I heard Daniel Barenboim perform and […]
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Tags: Beethoven, Berlin, Berlin Times, DAAD, Daniel Barenboim, Don Giovanni, Karl Scheffler, New York, Offenbach, Potsdamer Platz, wagner, Zürich Mozart
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
By James Jorden Revelation comes in the strangest places. Like, for example, I had this eventual moment of clarity about what it was that went wrong in the Lepage Ring, and what do you think sparked it? Of all things, last night’s performance of Ernani at the Met.
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Tags: Anthony Tommasini, Beethoven, Deborah Voigt, james jorden, musicalamerica, new york times, otto schenk, robert lepage, the machine, wagner
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
By James Jorden Now that it has become apparent that Robert Lepage’s production of the Ring at the Met is a fiasco (too soon? Nah.)… well, anyway, since arguably the production is a dreary, unworkable, overpriced mess whose primary (perhaps only) virtue is that it actually hasn’t killed anyone yet, and since, let’s face it, […]
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Tags: ann ziff, benedikt von peter, blogs, blu-ray, bryn terfel, Deborah Voigt, deconstruction, eva-maria westbroek, fabio luisi, gesamtkunstwerk, gwyneth jones, hd, james levine, jonas kaufmann, julian crouch, lady gaga, lehman's syndrome, martin kusej, metropolitan opera, otto schenk, peter gelb, phelim mcdermott, pundits, regie, richard croft, robert lepage, satyagraha, stefan herheim, the enchanted island, the fortress of solitude, the machine, the met, wagner
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
By James Jorden The critics’ reaction to Robert Lepage’s new production of Die Walküre at the Met leaves this contrarian reviewer in something of a quandary. Not only was pretty much everybody underwhelmed, but there was a consensus about what (they thought) was wrong: the clunkiness of The Machine, the lack of poetry in the […]
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Tags: bryn terfel, Deborah Voigt, frammistans, hd, regie, robert lepage, the machine, the met, wagner
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