Sir Simon Rattle, the future head of the BR Symphony Orchestra, conducts Wagner's "Siegfried" in the Isar Philharmonic Hall - and feels strange.When Michael Volle comes to the final applause, the audience of the Isarphilharmonie can't keep their seats. No question: Volle remains the outstanding Wotan of our day. With the "Wanderer" - as the role in "Siegfried", the third part of Richard Wagner's "Ring des Nibelungen" is called - he draws a border crosser of unsurpassed complexity, relaxed and...
Comparatively younger artistic directors are gradually appearing at German opera houses, occasionally even women. Berlin respects proportional representation. Since this season, Susanne Moser, born in 1974, and Philip Bröking, born in 1966, have been working together, and Elisabeth Sobotka, born in 1965, will come to the State Opera in 2024.Now the new director for the third house of the city-state has been named. Aviel Kahn, born in 1974, will take over the Deutsche Oper in 2026, the largest opera house...
The scientist Harald Lesch and the mountaineer Reinhold Messner meet for the first time. And the two have more in common than you might think. A conversation about climate change, art and the sinister role of humans.Interviewed by Reinhard J BrembeckOne was the first person to climb all eight-thousanders without oxygen and talks about his mountain experiences in lectures, the other is a physics and philosophy professor who presents his knowledge in a rousing, easily understandable manner in improvised television...
Tradition and vision, young and old, grand spectacle and intimacy, existentialism and commitment: this year's Salzburg Mozart Week offered the requiem of its namesake in two versions that couldn't be further apart, although both were based on the same score. Once the 81-year-old Jordi Savall, with his chamber orchestra Le Concert de Nations and the small choir La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, conducted a version that hauntingly emphasizes the terror of death; Four days later, the 30-year-old conductor Thomas Guggeis,...
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From Helmut MauroWhy was the new production of Richard Strauss' opera "Salome" so successful at the Vienna State Opera? Maybe because director Cyril Teste does not think purely psychologically, but theatrically. Of course he explores the subcutaneous sensitivities of the protagonists, but he doesn't abstract them any further on stage, instead he leads them back into concrete pictorial language. We see a completely broken family. Herodias (Michaela Schuster), the adulterous mother and former wife of Herod's brother, incites the daughter...
Exhibition: Museum of FailureSchadenfreude is a baser instinct. In the context of the critique of capitalism, however, this becomes an intellectually justifiable breakdown show. For example, when corporations crash entire product lines. That's why the "Museum of Failure" exists. This museum of failure was originally a traveling exhibition. During Corona, the collection was digitized. On collection.museumoffailure.com you can now look at all the things in the consumer world that have failed with karacho and millions. Coca-Cola BlāK, for example, a...
classic Lahav Shani becomes chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Lahav Shani is the future chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic. photo © Sven Hoppe/dpa Lahav Shani will succeed Valeri Gergiev, who was dismissed a year ago. The 34-year-old is scheduled to start in Munich in 2026. The Israeli musician Lahav Shani becomes chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic. On Wednesday, the city council voted in favor of the 34-year-old's appointment. Shani will start in 2026, said Mayor Dieter Reiter...
from Wolfgang SchreiberWith around eighty locations, Germany's music theater is clearly the opera world champion. But the great Brandenburg has only one state theater - in Cottbus, the second largest city in the federal state with 100,000 inhabitants, located in the former zone border area, on the outskirts. After all, there is economic growth here: For example, the modern maintenance workshop for trains of the new ICE4 fleet is under construction, for which Olaf Scholz in Cottbus announced new jobs...
Ukraine is calling for Russian artists to be removed from German schedules. It must not come to that. source site
