Posts Tagged ‘Munich’
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 20, 2018 MUNICH — Judging from reports around the country here, the Houston Symphony Orchestra today returns to Texas mission-accomplished. The clarity of its tone colors, the exuberance of its brass section, the articulate luster of its strings — all have been remarked upon during an eleven-day tour to busy […]
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Tags: Andrés Orozco Estrada, Bernstein, Gasteig, Hilary Hahn, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Kritik, Megan Conley, München, MünchenMusik, Munich, Review, Serenade, West Side Story
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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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Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 21, 2018 MUNICH — Putting box-office steadiness ahead of artistic achievement, the city council here voted this morning to extend by five years Valery Gergiev’s contract as Chefdirigent of the civically run Munich Philharmonic, as requested by the orchestra’s managers. The move doubles the Russian’s tenure, to encompass the seasons […]
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Tags: Commentary, Gasteig, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Valery Gergiev
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 31, 2018 MUNICH — Contrary to a London blog report yesterday, nothing has been “locked down” with regard to a contract extension for Valery Gergiev at the Munich Philharmonic, though things are indeed moving in that direction, for practical more than artistic reasons. What has happened is that Hans-Georg Küppers, […]
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Tags: Andris Nelsons, Dieter Reiter, Gasteig, Hans-Georg Küppers, Kirill Petrenko, Mariss Jansons, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Paul Müller, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowski, Vladimir Putin
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Friday, January 12th, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 12, 2018 MUNICH — Against the medical odds, perhaps, Mariss Jansons turns seventy-five on Sunday, still adored by his favorite orchestra. Bavarian Broadcasting marks the occasion with a 44-minute video portrait, Im Zeichen der Musik, or In the Music’s Character, freely watchable. Last evening here at the Gasteig, a subscription […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Beethoven, BR, BR Chor, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Gasteig, Genia Kühmeier, Gerhild Romberger, Howard Arman, Hummel, Kritik, Luca Pisaroni, Mariss Jansons, Martin Angerer, Maximilian Schmitt, München, Munich, Review, Stravinsky, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphony in Three Movements
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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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Saturday, November 4th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 4, 2017 MUNICH — With a shrill, pretty Hanna, a shriller, pretty Valencienne, a Camille of uneven tone, but a tight, fluent chorus and much charming orchestral work, Die lustige Witwe ended six years of darkness at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Oct. 19. This city’s second opera company, of the […]
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Tags: Adam Cooper, Anthony Bramall, Daniel Prohaska, Die lustige Witwe, Josef Köpplinger, Kritik, Lehár, München, Munich, Review, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, The Merry Widow
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 27, 2017 MUNICH — Though it will be built on the wrong side of the wrong train station, Munich’s much-debated, much-delayed new concert hall crept toward reality today with the announcement of a winning design. Bregenz-based Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten secured first place in the competition for the venue, now dubbed […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Commentary, Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten, Dieter Reiter, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Horst Seehofer, Konzertsaal München, München, Münchner Konzerthaus, Munich, Neues Odeon, News, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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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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