Joseph Maria Wolfram News
German-Czech politician and amateur composer (1789-1839)
- classical music, opera
- Habsburg monarchy
- politician, composer, jurist, bandleader
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All the conducting master class
2024-03-07 21:54:55
07 – 11 Jun, 2024 5-days two intensive masterclasses for conductors with Orchestra da Camera di Milanounder the supervision of Associazione Cameristi Scaligeri Teatro Oratorio san Giuseppe in MilanJune 7th-11thteacher: Wolfram Christ conductor RepertoireA.Schoenberg, Verklaerte Nacht, op.4B.Bartok, Divertimento per archi, op.BB118J.Brahms, Serenata n.2 op.16P.I.Tchaikowsky, Sinfonia n.6 “Patetica” op.74 During the masterclass there will be a […]
2023-09-10 11:35:00
[…] Marrakech by the Merenids the Almohads fled back to Tinmel. In 1276 the Merenids captured Tinmel, killing the entire population and leaving only the mosque standing. With the population of the remote area decimated the mosque progressively fell into decay; it was extensively renovated in the 1990s and added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 1995. Wagner based Parsifal on the story Parzival attributed to the Middle High German poet and Minnesinger Wolfram von Eschenbach (c1170 - c1220/30). In Book 1 of Parzival, Gahmuret (father of Parzival) travels to North Africa, and the Vintage Books 1961 English translation of the story mentions Morocco twice. Wagner did not travel to Morocco, yet alone Tinmel, so any connection between the Almhad mosque and Parsifal is purely conjecture. But there are other fascinating speculative links between the opera and Islam. One view, which originates from Wolfram von Eschenbach, is that […]
2023-08-25 08:13:00
[…] soprano, Elisabeth Teige (originally sung by Norwegian soprano, Lise Davidsen, while making her Bayreuth début) reached out to an audience who absolutely adored her. She lit up the stage! Her crystal-clear and well-controlled voice radiated round the spacious Graeco-Roman-designed Festspielhaus with consummate ease particularly in that wonderful aria in Act II ‘Dich, teure Halle’. I don’t think these two Norwegians cannot be separated as far as performance is concerned! And no stranger to the role of Wolfram von Eschenbach having sung it in Baumgarten’s production, Markus Eiche delivered a fine rendition of the opera’s big number ‘O du mein holder Abendstern’ in Act III stating his love for the distracted and forlorn Elisabeth. But her mind was elsewhere worrying and awaiting the safe return from Rome of the penitent and chastised Tannhäuser. But he doesn’t arrive and in the last act the action boils over when the seemingly not-so-saintly Elisabeth gets ‘knocked […]
2023-08-17 11:40:00
Bayreuth Festival (3) - Tannhäuser, 16 August 2023
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 16.8.2023 (MB) Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringia - Günter Groissböck Tannhäuser - Klaus Florian Vogt Wolfram von Eschenbach - Markus Eiche Walther von der Vogelweide - Siyabonga Maqungo Biterolf - Olafur Sigurdarson Heinrich der Schreiber - Jorge Rodriguez-Norton Reinmar von Zweter - Jens-Erik Aasbø Elisabeth - Elisabeth Teige Venus - Ekaterina Gubanova Young Shepherd - Julia Grüter Le Gateau Chocolat - Le Gateau Chocolat Oskar - Manni Laudenbach Pages - Cornelia Heil, Ekaterina Gubanova, Laura Margaret Smith, Karolin ZeinertTobias Kratzer (director)Rainer Sellmaier (designs)Manuel Braun (video)Reinhard Traub (lighting)Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy)Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus director: Eberhard Friedrich)Bayreuth Festival OrchestraNathalie Stutzmann (conductor) For my third and final Bayreuth performance this year, I revisited an old friend, Tobias Kratzer’s Tannhäuser. New when we met in 2019, it has weathered the pandemic storm and since assumed something close to classic status. Not that, like any of us during that or indeed any other four-year […]
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