Konzerthaus Berlin News
concert hall and former theatre in Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Mitte
- Germany
social networks
video channels
Last update
2024-03-19
Refresh
2022-01-18 09:01:54
Comedy with violence: a chance to stream the German premiere of the original French version of Donizetti's Deux Hommes et une Femme
Donizetti's Rita (or Deux Hommes et une Femme) is a somewhat problematic work, essentially it is a delightful comedy featuring a spousal violence. Written, in French, in the 1840s the work dates from the period when Donizetti was working on the French version of Lucia di Lammermoor for Paris and uses the same librettist. But the work remained unperformed until the 1860s (well after Donizetti's death) and became known in an an Italian version which made significant changes to the work. Opera Rara restored the original French and went back to Donizetti's manuscript for their 2014 recording [see my review]. The work occasionally pops up on stages, after all a comedy from Donizetti's mature period is quite a draw, and directors approach the challenges of the plot in a variety of ways. In September 2021, the Berliner Operngruppe gave the German premiere of this original French version of Donizetti's Deux […]
2021-10-04 03:52:00
R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (SACD review)
Vladimir Jurowski, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Pentatone PTC 5186 802. By John J. PuccioWhen German composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) premiered Eine Alpensinfonie (“An Alpine Symphony”) in 1915, anticipation ran high among classical-music enthusiasts. After all, it was Richard Strauss who had almost single-handedly resurrected and then developed the genre of the tone poem with such profound works as Also Sprach Zarathustra, Death and Transfiguration, Ein Heldenleben, Symfonia Domestica, Don Juan, and Don Quixote. All the same, what audiences wanted and what they got turned out to be two different things, with some critics describing An Alpine Symphony as picture-postcard fluff and others as “cinema music.”This has not stopped the greatest conductors of the modern era from recording Eine Alpensinfonie, though, with people like Karl Bohm, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Hans Knapperbusch, Evgeny Svetlanov, Yvgeny Mravinsky, Rudolf Kempe, Zubin Mehta, Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, and a […]
2021-10-04 03:52:00
R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (SACD review)
Vladimir Jurowski, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Pentatone PTC 5186 802. By John J. PuccioWhen German composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) premiered Eine Alpensinfonie (“An Alpine Symphony”) in 1915, anticipation ran high among classical-music enthusiasts. After all, it was Richard Strauss who had almost single-handedly resurrected and then developed the genre of the tone poem with such profound works as Also Sprach Zarathustra, Death and Transfiguration, Ein Heldenleben, Symfonia Domestica, Don Juan, and Don Quixote. All the same, what audiences wanted and what they got turned out to be two different things, with some critics describing An Alpine Symphony as picture-postcard fluff and others as “cinema music.”This has not stopped the greatest conductors of the modern era from recording Eine Alpensinfonie, though, with people like Karl Bohm, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Hans Knapperbusch, Evgeny Svetlanov, Yvgeny Mravinsky, Rudolf Kempe, Zubin Mehta, Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, and a […]
This source is no longer available. The following article is not online anymore.
Faces of classical music
2021-09-04 07:35:00
Luka Šulić and Evgeny Genchev at the Union Hall Maribor (HD 1080p)
Luka Šulić (cello) and Evgeny Genchev (piano) play popular melodies at the Union Hall Maribor, Slovenia, in December 2020. Union Hall is the only preserved building of the former Götz Brewery, which was the leading brewery in Maribor since the second half of the 19th century until the First World War. In 1911, a central building was built, Götz Hall, which was already then the largest venue for events in Maribor. In 1926 Götz Brewery became part of the Ljubljana's Union Brewery; hence the name Union Hall. But Union Brewery first limited its production in Maribor, and then stopped, and the Union Hall became the property of the music society Glasbena Matica. During the two world wars, the Union building and its hall were a place of musical activities and played an important role in the response of Slovenes to the increasing germanisation in Styria region. In 1910, Slovenes […]
or
- map: Concert halls - Europe
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): K...