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Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] featuring Israeli cellist, Kristina Reiko Cooper, who, incidentally, performed at the work’s première and, indeed, came up with the idea for the work. Singing in Yiddish, the quartet of outstanding vocalists was admirably led by German soprano, Johanna Ihrig, who harbours a strong, richly textured wide-ranging voice, well supported by Nora Steuerwald (contralto), Falk Hoffmann (tenor) and Steven Klose (bass) complemented by the ‘poetic whispering voices’ (Flüsterstimmen) of Eliana Pliskin Jacobs, Sasha Lurje, Daniel Kahn and Karsten Troyke. Dating from 2022 and commissioned by Yad Vashem (the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem) and the American Society for Yad Vashem, the work received its première on 5th November 2022 by the Kaunas State Orchestra and Kaunas State Choir under Constantine Orbelian in the Philharmonic Hall in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian academic and cultural life. Inspired by the heroism of Chiune Sugihara who […]
2019-08-16 16:30:31
Large scale, striking & engaging: Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in an historic quarry in Austria
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Oper im Steinbruch (Photo Andreas Tischler) Mozart Die Zauberflöte; Kateryna Kasper, Michael Porter, Luke Stoker, Danae Kontora, Uwe Schenke Primus, dir: Carolin Pienkos & Cornelius Obonya, cond: Karsten Januschke; Oper im Steinbruch, Austria Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 15 August 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Impressive both in scale and artistic quality, Mozart's opera performed in an historic quarry in AustriaOper im Steinbruch (Opera in the Quarry) presents opera in the 2000 quarry at St Margarethen near Eisenstadt in Austria. Opera has been performed there since the late 1990s, but there was no opera last year and this year is the first under the new artistic director Daniel Serafin, himself a former singer but with a degree in business administration and something of a minor Austrian celebrity as he has been on the country's equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing twice.The quarry is huge, […]
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2019-08-02 13:32:47
Karsten Schubert, Gallerist Who Championed Young British Artists Movement, Dead At 57
“His first exhibition was of the sculptor Alison Wilding, whose work he continued to show until his death. It was in 1988, though, that … three of the [Goldsmiths] art school’s new graduates – Gary Hume, Michael Landy and Ian Davenport – had their first West End exhibition at Karsten Schubert Limited.” – The Guardian
2018-07-03 14:44:47
For my July mixtape, i’ve decided to take myself on an impromptu trip around mainland Europe. With the help of Google Maps, i’ve plotted a course that’s somewhat circuitous but which manages to take in most of the continent. Starting in Holland (I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper, Ryoji Ikeda), we move down through Belgium (Autechre) and France (Andrew Liles) to the coast of Portugal (John Oswald). Coming back through Spain (Fergus Kelly, SPC ECO) and detouring into France again (Karsten Pflum, Zbigniew … The post appeared first on 5:4.
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