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2024-01-06 18:38:00
New York Philharmonic. Jaap van Zweden, conductor; Rudolf Buchbinder, piano. January 5, 2023.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Orchestra (Seat U5, $80).Van Zweden and Buchbinder at the conclusion of the Beethoven Concerto.ProgramPrelude to Act I of the Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (1862-67) by Wagner (1813-83).Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 (1806) by Beethoven (1770-1827).Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (1884-85) by Brahms (1833-97).The first thing I noticed about the program is it consists of well-known, traditional pieces, with nothing from a contemporary composer. A left-brain program, as I call it. Worked for me, and - from the NY Times reviewer's headline - worked for some critics as well.Beethoven's piano concerto was the one that was of most interest. I saw the van Zweden/Buchbinder combination in Hong Kong back in September, 2023. It was Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, and I had a lot of good things to say about it. While the 4th may be less "substantial," it was […]
2023-12-11 07:57:00
Opera & Democracy: Transatlantic Conversations & Concerts celebrating the centenary of the reopening of the Krolloper in Berlin
Krolloper in Berlin in 19302024 is the centenary of the reopening of the Krolloper in Berlin. It reopened in 1924 with a performance of Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, as an offshoot of the Berlin State Opera, but under Otto Klemperer from 1927-1931 the Krolloper took on independent artistic significance, becoming a gathering space for the avant-garde as well as promoting the idea of inclusive and accessible opera. It was forced to close in 1931 and after the Reichstag fire in 1933 served as the seat of the last parliament – it was there that the Weimar Republic came to an end. Many Krolloper artists, including Otto Klemperer, were persecuted and forced into exile.The Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, the former residence of the Mann family in American exile and today an important German American cultural forum, is cooperating with renowned opera houses in Germany and partners in the USA to bring together […]
2023-12-04 14:03:00
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Deutsche Oper, 3 December 2023
Hans Sachs – Johan Reuter Veit Pogner – Albert Pesendorfer Kunz Vogelgesang – Gideon Poppe Konrad Nachtigall – Marek Reichert Sixtus Beckmesser – Philipp Jekal Fritz Kothner – Thomas Lehman Balthasar Zorn – Jörg Schörner Ulrich Eißlinger – Patrick Vogel Augustin Moser – Paul Kaufmann Hermann Ortel – Stephen Bronk Hans Schwarz – Tobias Kehrer Hans Foltz – Byung Gil Kim Walther von Stolzing – Magnus Vigilius David – Ya-Chung Huang Eva – Elena Tsallagova Magdalena – Kathrin Göring Night Watchman – Tobias Kehrer Apprentices – Agata Kornaga, Freya Müller, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Yehui Jeong, Oleksandra Diachenko, Natalie Jurk, Jongwoo Hong, Thoma Jaron-Wutz, Leon Juurlink, Kyoungloul Kim, Sotiris Charalampous, Simon GrindbergJossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito (directors)Torsten Köpf (co-set designer)Charlotte Pistorius (co-costume designer)Olaf Freese (lighting) Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Jeremy Bines)Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinUlf Schirmer (conductor)Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, premiere am 12.6.2022 in der Deutschen […]
2023-09-19 13:03:52
Barbican Hall, LondonThe 500-year-old orchestra celebrated its rich history with a full-colour performance of Strauss’s Alpine Symphony and the UK premiere of Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva’s White IntermentThe Bayerisches Staatsorchester (Bavarian State Orchestra) celebrates its half-millennium this year. That’s right: 500 years old – a symphony orchestra dating back to before such things existed, if you accept there being an unbroken line between the musicians at the Munich court in 1523 and the disciplined body of players making the Barbican’s beams ring here in the first of a pair of concerts with their music director Vladimir Jurowski.On the way the orchestra has inspired many composers, not least Wagner, and they nodded to this with their encore, the prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. It had a sense of profundity that was almost devotional – a feeling heightened by the fact that so much of what had gone before […]
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