It is a beautiful program that the Munich Symphony Orchestra and its conductor Nodoka Okisawa (the orchestra's artist in residence this season) have devised for their concert in the Prinzregententheater: Bohuslav Martinů's Oboe Concerto H. 353, Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite and Arthur Honegger's Fourth Symphony . Music of the 20th Century. Modern (although Stravinsky's suite is also 100 years old) and without interspersing a Haydn symphony or the like out of conciliation, as is often done.As soon as oboist Zurab...
At the Munich Residenztheater, Alexander Eisenach is staging "Götz von Berlichingen" as a fast-paced firework of slogans about the question of what freedom actually is. source site
"Patriotic Photoshoot" Hackers claim they exposed the Mariupol bombers - by tricking the commander's wife View of the ruins of the Mariupol Theater. More than 1,000 civilians are said to have taken shelter in the building at the time of the bombing © Peter Kovalev / Tass The airstrike on the Mariupol Theater is considered one of the most serious suspected war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine. Hackers now want to have found those responsible – by trapping their...
The decision had been eagerly awaited: Would Sibylle Broll-Pape be allowed to serve as director of the ETA Hoffmann Theater in Bamberg for two more years and thus until 2027? That was her wish given two seasons restricted by the pandemic. It has been clear since Wednesday evening: No, she must not. This is understandable and a fair compromise. source site
In the end, the result was clearer than expected. According to SZ information, only 16 out of 44 voters voted in a non-public meeting of the Bamberg city council on Wednesday evening to extend the contract of Sibylle Broll-Pape, the director of the ETA Hoffmann Theater, by two years to 2027. A result that was not foreseeable a few weeks ago was when there was still a majority for Broll-Pape. Then, however, various allegations against her became public, the mood...
The contract of Sibylle Broll-Pape, artistic director at the ETA Hoffmann Theater in Bamberg, will not be extended beyond 2025 as she had wished. This decision was made on Wednesday evening at a meeting of the Bamberg city council, as city spokesman Michael Memmel announced. "Regarding the extension of the contract with the director of the ETA Hoffmann Theater, the majority of the city council in the plenary session supported the decision of the cultural senate to extend the contract...
There it is again, the good old world explanation theater in frontal teaching style. Thanks to the teachings in Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater, one isn't any wiser afterwards, but at least one got it in writing that humanity does not always tend towards peaceful manners. Brave interns had to google data from numerous wars in world history, now the scenes, the year and the number of deaths move in long columns across the screens and are massively projected onto the...
theatre Berlin cult musical "Line 1" gets an update Helena Charlotte Sigal and Dietrich Lehmann in the photo © Annette Riedl/dpa The Berlin musical "Line 1" has been running since 1986 and the performances still sell out quickly. Now the staging is being revised a bit. And there will also be a woman who has just been seen on television. One of the most famous German musicals is being revised: The Berlin Grips Theater wants to show "Line 1" in...
Richard Siegal imports Japanese collective art in his powerful piece "Ballet of (Dis)obedience". source site
All young ballerinas know this nightmare: performing in "Swan Lake" as part of the corps de ballet, and then - a wrong step. The aesthetic illusion is already gone, swarm-intelligent simultaneity and uniformity are gone with the devil. It is no different in formation dancing, where the judges penalize any imbalance with a point deduction, which catapults the entire team to the lower tournament places. Whether it's hip-hop shows, can-cans or Olympic synchronized swimming, the number of dance and sporting...
