05/25/2012

World Première of Shchedrin's "Cleopatra and the Snake" at Salzburg

The motto of the Salzburger Pfingstfestspiele (Salzburg Pentecost Festival) is the legendary Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra. On this occastion, a spectacular world premeire will be presented as part of the concert series: The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev ist presenting ...

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05/05/2012

World Première of Rediscovered Korngold Piece

New incidental music was required for a performance of William Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado about Nothing in the Schönbrunn Schloßtheater in Vienna in 1920. Erich Wolfgang Korngold had already composed this music two years previously; he also conducted the première in May 1920. In January of the ...

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03/07/2012

Korngold’s Music to Much Ado About Nothing in American Premiere at University of North Carolina School of the Arts

With a run of eight performances opening on March 29, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts presents the US premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s complete incidental music to Much Ado About Nothing conducted by John Mauceri. The performance accompanies a new production of Shakespeare’s ...

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02/09/2012

World première: Hamlet-Echos by Christian Jost

A CD project with the mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis, viola player Pauline Sachse and pianist Daniel Heide provided the opportunity for Christian Jost to return to his opera Hamlet which had been premiered in 2009. The resulting work Hamlet- Echos blends and fuses speeches by ...

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06/17/2009

Work of the Week - Christian Jost: Hamlet

  On June 21st, Berlin’s Komische Oper celebrates the world premiere of Christian Jost's Hamlet . The "12 musical tableaux after William Shakespeare" are a commission of the Komische Oper. Andreas Homoki, in addition to directing, also designed the set; Carl St. Clair is responsible ...

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04/27/2009

schott aktuell - the journal 3/2009 online

Shakespeare in Music Contents: p. 3: Editorial · Contents pp. 4-7: World Premieres: Christian Jost: Hamlet in Berlin, Kenneth Hesketh: PatterSongs in Liverpool, Rodion Shchedrin: Lithuanian Saga in Vilnius, Jörg Widmann: Dubairische Tänze in Berlin etc. pp. 8-9: First ...

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