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  • Published on Dec 4, 2019

    Cecilia Bartoli Has a New Role: Head of Monte Carlo’s Opera

    The great Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli is preparing to take on a new role: director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. The appointment of Ms. Bartoli, 53, who will be the first woman to lead the company, was announced on Tuesday in the company’s ornate …

    Source: The New York Times - Neutral
  • Published on Nov 13, 2019

    The Salzburg Festival Prepares to Turn 100

    What a difference a century makes. When the Salzburg Festival in Austria was first held, in the summer of 1920, it consisted of just half a dozen performances of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s morality play “Jedermann” (“Everyman”). Since then, the festival has …

    Source: The New York Times - Neutral
  • Published on Aug 16, 2019

    Nearly 100, the Salzburg Festival Doesn’t Wait to Celebrate

    SALZBURG, Austria — Next summer, the Salzburg Festival, the largest and most important annual event in classical music, turns 100. This is a big deal, and will be celebrated as such — with exhibitions in this idyllic city and elsewhere, symposiums, and …

    Source: The New York Times - Neutral
  • Published on Nov 15, 2018

    The Salzburg Festival is Planning a Mythic Summer

    The Salzburg Festival plans to delve into myth next summer, with new opera productions including Mozart’s “Idomeneo,” by Peter Sellars; Offenbach’s “Orphée aux Enfers,” by Barrie Kosky; George Enescu’s “Oedipe,” by Achim Freyer; and Cherubini’s “Médée,” by …

    Source: The New York Times - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 20, 2018

    Concert review: A musical extravaganza at the Salzburg festival

    SALZBURG, Austria – The Salzburg Festival was inaugurated in 1920 and today, even with the vast proliferation of festivals all over the world, it is still recognized as the premier international event of its kind. The innovative 2018 program featured 206 …

    Source: Jerusalem Post - Neutral
  • Published on Aug 24, 2018

    Bartoli’s new label to champion next generation

    The first ‘Mentored by Bartoli’ artist to be Mexican tenor Javier Camarena The mezzo Cecilia Bartoli is marking 30 years on the Decca label with the launch of a new sub-label aimed at nurturing the next generation of stars. In her three decades on Decca, …

    Source: Gramophone - Uncategorized
  • Published on Aug 6, 2018

    German music life personified: Witiko Adler on his 90th birthday

    For September 20, conductor Daniel Barenboim and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter have been booked in a benefit concert in the Berlin Philharmonie. The occasion is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Konzertdirektion Adler. Turning 90 on July 30, the …

    Source: Deutsche Welle - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on Jul 30, 2018

    German music life personified: Witiko Adler on his 90th birthday

    For September 20, conductor Daniel Barenboim and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter have been booked in a benefit concert in the Berlin Philharmonie. The occasion is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Konzertdirektion Adler. Turning 90 on July 30, the …

    Source: Deutsche Welle - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on Jul 17, 2018

    Taking On 19th-Century Opera Stereotypes for the #MeToo Era

    What happens when a powerful man makes moves on a strong, independent woman who has no intention of accepting his advances? And how are things further complicated if he is Middle Eastern and she is Western and their cultures fundamentally clash? These are …

    Source: The New York Times - Neutral
  • Published on Apr 11, 2018

    On Stage: Debuts, Celebrations and Collaborations

    A double bill of Bartok brings the Belgian, Los Angeles-based designer, artist and stage director Christophe Coppens together with the theater’s music director Alain Altinoglu. Ante Jerkunica, a bass, sings the role of the murderous Duke, and Nora Gubisch, …

    Source: The New York Times - Neutral
  • Published on Nov 8, 2017

    Henze’s ‘The Bassarids’ Will Return to the Salzburg Festival

    Photo The festival will be the second under Markus Hinterhäuser, who became its artistic director this year. Credit Franz Neumayr for The New York Times Hans Werner Henze’s “The Bassarids” — a retelling of Euripides’s “The Bacchae” with a libretto by W. H. …

    Source: The New York Times - Neutral
  • Published on Nov 19, 2017

    Sistine Chapel breaks 500-year gender taboo to welcome soprano into the choir

    For the past 500 years, beautiful sacred music has echoed up towards Michelangelo’s sublime ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, performed exclusively by male choirs. Until now. In a development that will delight both music lovers and reform-minded …

    Source: The Guardian - Neutral
  • Published on Nov 19, 2017

    Higher calling

    For the past 500 years, beautiful sacred music has echoed up towards Michelangelo’s sublime ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, performed exclusively by male choirs. Until now. In a development that will delight both music lovers and reform-minded …

    Source: The Guardian - Neutral
  • Published on Aug 29, 2017

    At Salzburg Festival, operatic winds of change blow

    The festival that gives this scenic storybook town on the Salzach River its glamorous international cachet is being dragged, not altogether willingly, into the early 21st century. Since I began attending the Salzburg Festival events in 1989, a couple of …

    Source: Orlando Sentinel - Florida - Neutral
  • Published on Sep 1, 2017

    Cecilia Bartoli, Last Seen With a Beard, May Return to New York

    “I hope to come back — it’s a long time now,” she said, arousing interest because rumors to that effect have begun to swirl in New York music circles. Ariodante 2017 • Cecilia Bartoli Video by SalzburgerFestspiele Ms. Bartoli, 51, has long made her …

    Source: The New York Times - Neutral
  • Published on Jun 3, 2017

    The co-production ‘The Second Violinist’ won the FEDORA - Generali Prize for Opera as a new creation of excellence

    Salzburg/Trieste - The FEDORA - Generali Prize for Opera was given today to the lead companies Wide Open Opera and Landmark Productions in Dublin for the opera co-production of 'The Second Violinist', by Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh. The …

    Source: 4-traders - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jun 5, 2017

    Enda Walsh directed opera The Second Violinist wins €150,000 Fedora - Generali Prize for...

    Landmark Productions and Wide Open Opera were awarded the Fedora - Generali Prize for Opera 2017, beating off stiff competition from a number of the world's leading opera producers. The Second Violinist is a new opera composed by Donnacha Dennehy and …

    Source: Irish Independent - Neutral
  • Published on May 23, 2017

    Festivals & events, June, 2017

          Austria VIENNA: Wiener Festwochen, multidisciplinary arts festival, through June 18. MELK: International Baroque Days, Melk Abbey, June 1-5. VIENNA: Vienna Independent Shorts, festival for short film, animation and video, June 1-6. INNSBRUCK: Golden …

    Source: Stars and Stripes - Government
  • Published on Feb 13, 2017

    L.A. Opera wins two Grammys for 'Ghosts of Versailles'

    Los Angeles Opera got not one but two curtain calls Sunday, as the company took home two Grammy Awards for “The Ghosts of Versailles.” The recording of the work, composed by John Corigliano and librettist William M. Hoffman, earned the opera Grammy for a …

    Source: Los Angeles Times - California - Neutral
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