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Der Rosenkavalier, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2 January 2024
Die Feldmarschallin, Fürstin Werdenberg – Julia Kleiter Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau – Günther Groissböck Octavian – Marina Prudenskaya Herr von Faninal – Roman Trekel Sophie – Golda Schultz Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin – Anna Samuil Valzacchi – Karl-Michael Ebner Annina – Katharina Kammerloher Police Officer – Friedrich Hamel The Marschallin’s Major-domo – Florian Hoffmann Faninal’s Major-domo – Johan Krogius House Servant – Jens-Eric Schulze Notary – Dionyios Avgerinos Landlord – Johan Krogius Singer – Andrés Moreno Garcia Milliner – Regina Koncz Vendor of Pets – Michael Kim Leopold – Oliver Chwat Lackeys, Waiters – Sooongoo Lee, Felipe Martin, Insoo Hwoang, Thomas Vogel Three noble orphans – Olga Vilenskaia, Anna Woldt, Verena Albertz Lerchenauschen – Peter Krumow, Stefan Livland, Mike Keller, Thomas Vogel, Ben Bloomfeld, Andreas Neher Paper artist – Tomas Höfer Mohammed – Joseph UmohDirector – André HellerAssistant director – Wolfgang SchillySet designs – Xenia Hausner, Nanna NeudeckCostumes – Arthur Arbesser, […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-07-16 07:45:19
The Hofer Symphoniker in Bavaria has managed very... The post Orchestra names chief conductor after 20 years without one appeared first on Slippedisc.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-03-19 10:33:50
Othello was a lesbian, right?
Theater Hof in Bavaria is streaming Shakespeare’s Othello next weekend here. It says: The Hofer “Othello” version rethinks the classic subject of belonging and exclusion: In Reinhardt Friese’s brand new interpretation approach, Othello as a lesbian woman is a tolerated foreign body in the men’s world of the Venetian Navy. Antje Hochholdinger as Othello, Alrun […]
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Faces of classical music
2021-03-08 11:24:00
Franz Schubert: Octet in F major – Musicians of Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra – Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall, 11-13.03.2021 (Premiere: 11.03.2021, 20:30, Live streaming)
Like comparable works by Spohr, Hummel and others, Schubert's irresistible Octet is a late offshoot of the eighteenth-century tradition of serenades scored for mixed wind and strings. And together with the B flat Piano Trio, D.898, it comes closer than any of his other late instrumental works to the popular image of the companionable, echt-Viennese composer pouring out a stream of spontaneously inspired melody. We owe its existence to Count Ferdinand Troyer, a talented amateur clarinettist who was chief steward at the court of Beethoven's friend and pupil, Archduke Rudolf. Early in 1824 the count proposed that Schubert write a follow-up to Beethoven's Septet, which to its composer's intense irritation had become a runaway success. (When Beethoven learnt of its triumph in England he was heard muttering that the work should be burned.) Schubert duly obliged, adding a second violin to the Septet's line-up of clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, […]
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