Tag: Gardiner
Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner slaps a singer – culture
Actually, it should have been the start of a grandiose tour through half of Europe. Hector Berlioz’ monumental opera “Les Troyens”, which is seldom performed because it lasts at least…
Review: Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the BR Symphony Orchestra – Munich
If only conductors would always program such exciting concerts beyond the mainstream between Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner: Just under a month before his 80th birthday, Sir John Eliot Gardiner performed…
Conductor John Eliot Gardiner at the Salzburg Festival – Culture
When Max Reinhardt, the co-founder of the Salzburg Festival, filmed “Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1935, he naturally had Felix Mendelssohn’s music edited for the soundtrack. Since its composition a hundred…