Tag: festival
Wunsiedel: Birgit Simmler on Luisenburg Festival – Bavaria
The Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel in Upper Franconia is considered to be the most traditional professional open-air theater in Germany. After the failure in 2020, the Luisenburg – which is…
Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s “Dies Irae” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
The last visitors are still looking for their places in the collegiate church, and already there is a clatter. A hollow throbbing like a labored heartbeat can be heard, a…
“Monte Verità” at the Locarno Film Festival – Culture
There is really no question that the film “Monte Verità” must have its premiere at this location: on the Piazza Grande of Locarno, the central square of the Ticino town,…
Mahler’s Third and Cerha’s “Spiegel” at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
“Christ, I forgot the horn!” Cursed Gustav Mahler in a caricature that was published on the occasion of his Sixth Symphony. “Now I can write another symphony!” In fact, Mahler’s…
Oberschleißheim – Wine Festival in the Beer Garden – District of Munich
After a compulsory break in the previous year, the glasses will clink again this year at the musical Franconian Wine Festival on Saturday, August 21, in the Phönix beer garden…
Bland Podcasts: The International Summer Theater Festival in Hamburg – Culture
The triumph of the podcast is the death of the drama, at least if the directors think that due to the boom they have to transfer this format one to…
Salzburg Festival: Jossi Wieler stages “The mine of Falun” – culture
There is a huge crash in the Salzburg State Theater. A piece of plaster falls from the portal. It’s dusty. The curtain opens shyly, one looks at a rubble field…
Munich: International Silent Film Festival open air – Munich
If you look ahead, you should always take a look back: Because only very few things are really new, almost everything has been there before, in music, art, in the…
Bayreuth Festival 2021: The whole “Ring” in one day – culture
Wagnerians are believers and therefore pilgrims and therefore pedestrians. A real Wagnerian and her male counterpart climb the Green Hill in Bayreuth on foot. This only takes twenty minutes, but…
Lina Beckmann’s triumph as Richard III. at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
There is a slaughter plate again at the Salzburg Festival. The big one, called “Schlachten!”, Served here on the Perner-Insel in Hallein in 1999 by Luk Perceval, took a whole…