Kent Nagano Conducts Classical Masterpieces 5: Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8
mostly opera... (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
New production of Don Giovanni just opened in Munich (October 2009). Production by Stephan Kimmig. Kent Nagano conducts. Mariusz Kwiecien is Don Giovanni. Maija Kovalevska and Ellie Dehn are the two ladies:
Summer is Coming In (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Brahms' Symphony No. 1 is one of those rare pieces I can listen to over and over again, without ever getting bored. There's so much drama, anxiety and (eventually) affirmation in the piece that I would gladly travel abroad to hear different performances of it. So I did. Brahms' First is often mockingly called Beethoven's Tenth, so it was a fitting conclusion to Bonn's Beethovenfest last month. The...
mostly opera... (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Richard Jones´ new production of Lohengrin opened yesterday at the Bavarian State Opera with a cast including Jonas Kaufmann´s role debut as Lohengrin and ditto for Anja Harteros as Elsa. Kent Nagano conducted the affair, which was videotransmitted live outside the theatre.It seems like Richard Jones concept evolves around an ironic interpretation of the bourgeois dream, of a traditional...
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