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05/13/2013
Work of the Week - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
When Ariadne auf Naxos is staged on 20 May 2013 in Stuttgart, a hundred years will have passed since its world premiere at the Stuttgarter Hoftheater. Spanning a bridge from its first run during the 1912/13 season to the present, stage designer Anna Viebrock uses the modern Großes Haus ...
12/03/2012
Work of the Week - Paul Hindemith: Klaviermusik mit Orchester
Paul Hindemith's Klaviermusik mit Orchester was commissioned by pianist Paul Wittgenstein, a descendant of one of the wealthiest families in Austria in the 20th century, who negotiated sole performing rights of the piece. In 2002, more than 80 years after its composition, the piano concerto ...
08/26/2012
World Première: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand by Toshi Ichiyanagi
Suntory Hall in Tokyo is seeing the world premiere of a new piano concerto for the left hand only by Toshi Ichiyanagi On 28 August 2012. His Piano Concerto No. 5 "Finland" will be first performed by Izumi Tateno and the Tokyo Metropiolitan Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Tatsuya ...
07/24/2012
Korngold’s Die tote Stadt in Australian Premiere at Sydney Opera House
On June 30, Erich Wolfgang Korngolds’ operatic masterpiece Die tote Stadt ( The Dead City ) was honored with its long-awaited Australian Premiere, presented by Opera Australia at the landmark Sydney Opera House. An intense psychological study in which a man's obsession with his dead wife threatens ...
04/23/2012
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2012 online
A featured theme in this years Salzburg Whitsun Festival is ‘Queen Cleopatra’. The legendary, beautiful Queen, shrouded in mystery has been the subject of literature and arts. Rodion Shchedrin chose the scene of Cleopatra’s death from her dramatic life for a work commissioned by the festival. This ...
03/14/2012
"Exorcist" director Friedkin stages "The Tales of Hoffmann" in Vienna
The Theater an der Wien has succeeded in securing a director for the new production Les Contes d’Hoffmann ("Tales of Hoffmann") who is unsurpassed in his ability to depict the depths of the human psyche in striking images: the Oscar award winner William Friedkin, famous for films such ...
02/23/2012
schott aktuell - the journal 2/2012 online
Hymns and their close relations odes and dithyrambs provide artistic expression for mankind’s desire to celebrate and sublimate existence, liberating us from the limitations of everyday existence and lifting us towards universal and even transcendental principles. In ancient times, the hymn ...
12/23/2011
schott aktuell - the journal 1/2012 online
For Schott it is with particular pride that we look forward to the world’s celebrations of Wagner’s bicentenary in 2013. In anticipation of this event, we have been busy adding to our Richard Wagner Complete Edition: new urtext-vocal scores based to the Complete Edition of The Flying Dutchman in ...
08/24/2011
schott aktuell - the journal 5/2011 online
Stage Animals Scientists estimate that there are 1,367,555 animal species currently known on earth. Insects and spiders constitute the largest group by far with a total exceeding a million different species. The figure is somewhat more modest in the world of theatre, or to be more precise, ...
04/11/2011
Work of the Week - Richard Strauss: Salome
How beautiful is Princess Salome tonight... With these words begins one of Richard Strauss most famous operas, Salome , after the same titled drama by Oscar Wilde. Two new productions will be premiered this week: on April 15 is the premiere at the Opera Bałtycka in Danzig; conductor ...
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