In the past several years, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and director Christof Loy have been mining the neglected margins of the early-twentieth-century operatic repertoire … and more often than not they’ve managed to strike gold.
Medio siglo de danza con una amplia diversidad de estilos, temática, historias y gestualidad fueron reunidos en esta maravillosa tarde por Volpi con una obra propia y sendas piezas de Pina Bausch, Hans van Manen y Justin Peck.
I have loved every moment of this journey into Cuban music.It has changed me as a musician and as a person - I feel much freer on my instrument and my rhythm is a lot better!I also love the passion and enthusiasm for things which my Cuban friends so freely show, we could do with more of that here in Europe, couldn´t we?!
In both Schönberg’s Central Europe and Ives’ New England one could hear the piano straining to liberate itself from the formal constraints of classical tradition
El compositor británico Alexander Goehr falleció ayer 26 de agosto en Cambridge, en cuya Facultad de Música seguía ocupando el puesto de "Profesor emérito".Goehr fue uno de los fundadores del New Music Manchester Group junto a Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies y el pianista John Ogdon.
Don Giovanni himself, with his top hat and black cloak, cut an undeniably sinister figure and, for a brief moment at the beginning, one wondered if the Victorian trappings of the sets were going to be used to take the story in a Jack the Ripper direction
The new production at Santa Fe Opera, directed by Bruno Ravella, managed to capture much of the opera’s fine emotional balance, but was perhaps even more notable for the quality of its musical performances, especially the Marschallin of Rachel Willis-Sørensen and the taut musical direction of Karina Canellakis
Hans von Bülow escribió sobre Bruckner: “Halb Genie, halb Trottel” (mitad genio, mitad idiota).Incluso el prestigioso teólogo Hans Küng desprecia la religiosidad y el misticismo de Bruckner
What made the evening baffling is that the staging -directed by Franziska Kronfoth and Julia Lwowski- was clearly the product of considerable technical skill