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[…] theatre held on a triennial basis in the Austrian city of Graz, the Ring Award enables and encourages a critical reflection of current trends and developments in musical theatre offering a platform to young artists in getting international resonance for their ideas of what contemporary musical theatre should be like. Therefore, a director going places, Schwarz has worked in some prestigious houses over the past few years. For instance, he directed Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte at Theater an der Wien, Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera at Staatstheater Darmstadt, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at Opéra National de Montpellier and York Holler’s Der Meister und Margarita at Oper Köln. Without question, directing Wagner, especially the Ring, poses a tremendous artistic challenge for any director but Schwarz took that task head on conjuring up a good and interesting (but bizarre) production. However, I like directors who push boundaries and as with Frank Castorf’s controversial Ring at […]
2022-12-06 17:24:19
Theater an der Wien delivers a real rediscovery from a contemporary of Mozart’s
2022-07-06 07:11:28
Frothy fun: Johann Strauss' unaccountably neglected operetta Blindekuh
[…] accepted, despite limitations of libretto whilst others are shunned. Sometimes this is certainly related to that almost unquantifiable element, the composer's engagement with the libretto, but sometimes it can be down to other elements. Gustav Mahler raised the artistic status of Strauss' Die Fledermaus by performing it at Hamburg Opera House, and this feeling that Die Fledermaus is more 'operatic' might be the reason for its greater popularity.Strauss' Blindekuh (Blind Man's Buff) premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna in 1878. It had a respectable run and then a run of performances in Budapest, and then evidently, very little. The libretto is based on a comedy by the German actor and playwright Rudolf Kneisel (1832-1899) and one of the complaints charged against the operetta was that the plot was too complex. Certainly, it seems to have taken much of Kneisel's mistaken-identity farce rather too literally. There is the […]
2022-06-13 17:00:41
Recorded in Bonn at La Redoutte, Green Salon, violinist Roman Kim plays on the Alexander Hazin 2015 “Superior” violin in his newest video. Beethoven wrote his Symphony No. 5 between 1804 and 1808 and was premiered at Vienna's Theater an der Wien in 1808. The opening bars of the work have propelled this piece […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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