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In his passion for the music of Richard Wagner, Tony Cooper finds himself back in Deutschland attending yet another Ring cycle at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Wagner: Das Rheingold - Deutsche Oper, Berlin (Photo Bernd Uhlig) Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen; Dir: Stefan Herheim, cond: Donald Runnicles; Deutsche Oper Berlin Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 16 November 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★) Tony Cooper experiences Stefan Herheim's new Ring cycle in BerlinTony Cooper's review of Stefan Herheim's new production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, conducted by Donald Runnicles with Nina Stemme, Clay Hilley, Derek Welton, Iain Paterson, Brandon Jovanovich, Elisabeth Teige. I’m back in Berlin, a city I favour and enjoy so much, ready for yet another Ring cycle at Deutsche Oper, a large, comfortable 1850-seat theatre boldly designed in the Modernist style and simply ideal for large-scale productions. And none come much larger than those penned by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner From my hotel on Bayreutherstraße just off Wittenbergplatz, Berlin’s most […]
2021-08-02 23:29:00
CutTime Productions, LLC: CutTime® Premieres New Romance for Barbara!
[…] Birmingham with dozens attending (picture at top). In March the famous Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in NYC invited me to create a new arrangement of Haydn’s Seven Last Words for string orchestra, oboe and horn for a streamed performance with a social justice theme by theologian Dr. Keri Day. The hour-long video is here and is quite moving. Tickets are $5 and up. My first job was principal bass for 3 years at the Canton Symphony Orchestra of Ohio back in the 1980s. Not only is the beloved music director Gerhardt Zimmermann still there, but he has been trying to schedule a performance of my debut work, Essay No. 1 After Sibelius, for 10 years now. That day should arrive February 13, 2022, and I will be on hand to set context and some balances. Meanwhile, the CSO invited me to speak on their pioneering podcast series […]
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