Posts Tagged ‘Bayerische Staatsoper’
Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 21, 2018 MUNICH — Bavaria’s Culture Ministry, responsible for Bayerische Staatsoper and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, among many other entities, underwent a sudden double shake-up this morning with the firing of its cheerful chief, Ludwig Spaenle, and an organizational severing into two parts. Bernd Sibler, 47, is the new Kultusminister. The […]
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Tags: Angela Merkel, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bernd Sibler, CDU, CSU, Franz Josef Strauß, Horst Seehofer, King Ludwig I, Ludwig Spaenle, Markus Söder, News, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 6, 2018 MUNICH — The rumor emerged last fall, lingered, and today became fact during a Free State of Bavaria cabinet meeting: Serge Dorny, 56, and Vladimir Jurowski, 45, will in Sept. 2021 take over as Intendant and Generalmusikdirektor, respectively, at Bavarian State Opera. So said a statement from Bavaria’s […]
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Tags: Andris Nelsons, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Ludwig Spaenle, München, Munich, News, Semperoper, Serge Dorny, Vladimir Jurowski
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 27, 2018 MUNICH — Sometimes the revival has the better cast. So it was for La Favorite at Bavarian State Opera on Sunday, when Giacomo Sagripanti, Clémentine Margaine and Ludovic Tézier made more sense of the music than their counterparts in the 2016 production’s first run (a Deutsche Grammophon DVD) […]
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Tags: Amélie Niermeyer, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Clémentine Margaine, Deutsche Grammophon, DVD, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Sagripanti, Kritik, Matthew Polenzani, Mika Kares, München, Munich, Review, Tézier
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Thursday, December 28th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 28, 2017 MUNICH — Post is under revision. Illustration © Queue-it and Bayerische Staatsoper Related posts: Staatsoper Favors Local Fans See-Through Lulu Ettinger Drives Aida U.S. Orchestras on Travel Ban Time for Schwetzingen
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, CTS Eventim, Ludwig Spaenle, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Queue-it
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Friday, August 18th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 18, 2017 MUNICH — BelAir Classiques and Mezzo TV have succeeded in getting a ban overturned on their sale and airing, respectively, of a 2010 filmed staging of Dialogues des Carmélites made here at Bavarian State Opera. The ban, or arrêt, had been imposed in 2015 by the Cour d’appel […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, BelAir Classiques, Dialogues des Carmélites, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Georges Bernanos, Mezzo TV, München, Munich, Naxos, News, Poulenc
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Friday, June 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 16, 2017 MUNICH — An odd thing happened during the curtain calls last evening after a taut, riveting Rusalka here at Bavarian State Opera. The orchestra players made various signs of approval for the cast members’ work, as is customary, and then essentially none for the conductor (and leading lady’s […]
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Tags: Alyona Abramova, Andris Nelsons, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dmytro Popov, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Günther Groissböck, Helena Zubanovich, Kristine Opolais, Kušej, München, Munich, Nadia Krasteva, News, Rachael Wilson, Tara Erraught, Tomáš Hanus, Ulrich Reß
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 16, 2017 MUNICH — Nikolaus Bachler’s Bavarian State Opera has been having its idea of fun with the taxpayer money it receives. In connection with a new Tannhäuser, due May 21, it commissioned for its quarterly Max Joseph magazine a discussion of Wagner’s bacchanale of distant bathing naiads and sedate […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Christoph Koch, Georg Seeßlen, Kirill Petrenko, München, Munich, News, Nikolaus Bachler, Piotr Wyrzykowski, Romeo Castellucci, Tannhäuser
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 2, 2017 MUNICH — Like the miracle of compound interest, Bavarian State Opera’s pricing can chart smartly upwards when you’re not watching. The company sells using an astounding total of 128 price points — the product of eight price categories for its National Theater home and sixteen sliding scales. Things […]
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Tags: Andrea Battistoni, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Charles Castronovo, Giuseppe Verdi, Leo Nucci, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News, Plácido Domingo, Sonya Yoncheva
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 13, 2017 MUNICH — Bavaria’s Culture Ministry declined to comment last week on the handicapping of online ticket buyers by Bavarian State Opera, one of the entities it supervises. In theory the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture, Science and Art, to give it its full name, supports culture […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Ludwig Spaenle, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, News
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 13, 2017 MUNICH — Philipp Stölzl’s new and relatively sane production of Andrea Chénier will be video-streamed Saturday by Bavarian State Opera as part of a regular free service. — when: 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT), March 18, 2017 — where: https://www.staatsoper.de/tv.html Omer Meir Wellber brings his inimitable visceral […]
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Tags: Andrea Chénier, Anja Harteros, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Giordano, Kaufmann, Luca Salsi, München, Munich, News, Omer Meir Wellber, Philipp Stölzl
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