John Lionel Golden News
American playwright (1874-1955)
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- United States of America
- actor, writer, theatrical director
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2024-04-13 04:16:08
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2024-04-10 16:00:52
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2024-04-08 15:20:00
Deadly Sins in New York and Silver Lion in Venice: Ensemble Modern
Wallis Giunta (Photo: Dario Accosta)Ensemble Modern is currently on a small tour of the USA with concerts in Houston and New York including Carnegie Hall. Under conductor HK Gruber the ensemble with mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta and a-cappella ensemble amarcord, will be presenting Kurt Weill's Die Sieben Todsünden, in a new version for chamber ensemble, plus music by Paul Hindemith, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Arnold Schoenberg. A second programme in New York will focus on Cuban-American composer Tania León alongside transcriptions of Conlon Nancarrow's player-piano studies.In September, Ensemble Modern will be at the Biennale Musica di Venezia 2024 and will be receiving the festival's Silver Lion whilst Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement has been awarded to the composer Rebecca Saunders. On September 26, Ensemble Modern opens the festival at the Teatro la Fenice together with the Orchestra del Teatro under the baton of Tito Ceccherini, performing Rebecca Saunders' Wound. On September 28, Ensemble Modern appears […]
2024-03-27 08:09:00
Revisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan
[…] hands on the ring at any cost. Reverently, the Ring's eponymous hero is laid out in the stress lab (a perfect resting-place!) providing one of the greatest scenes of this production inasmuch as during the playing of Siegfried's Rhine Journey, a large core of mourners from ESCHE slowly come together to keep a vigil. A deeply thoughtful moment, the scene resembles a Living Picture such as those painted by Dutch Old Masters of the Golden Age. Tcherniakov's ending followed the overall pattern of the rationale of his production as he axed the grand and opulent flaming procession usually associated with Siegfried's Rhine Journey. It's left to the orchestra who, with Jordan driving them on, paint their own picture of this most moving and delicate scene. Götterdämmerung - Anja Kampe - Staatsoper Berlin, 2022 (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)Denouncing the Gods for their guilt in Siegfried's death, Brünnhilde quietly and reverently removes […]
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