Olivier Messiaen
Trotz des pandemiebedingten Ausfalls der diesjährigen Internationalen Messiaen-Tage Görlitz-Zgorzelec wollten die Veranstalter rund um den 15. Januar, dem Jahrestag der Uraufführung des ‘Quatuor pour la fin du temps’, an den Kern des Festivals erinnern. Read More →
Susanna Mälkki
There has been e media rush on an AP news, that 52-year-old Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki could become the next Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, when Jaap van Zweden will leave the orchestra at the end of the 2023-24 season. Read More →
Der russische Regisseur Serebrennikov ist nach Hamburg gekommen, um am Thalia Theater zu proben. Das kam ziemlich überrschend, da zunächst vermutet worden war, Serebrennikov werde per Videoschaltung proben. Read More →
French pianist Stéphane Blet died in Geneva on Friday, January 7, falling from a balcony. Blet, known for his radical, anti-Semitic and other positions, had been living in Turkey since 2016. Read More →
Der Intendant der Komischen Oper, der jüdisch-stämmige Barrie Kosky, hat die geplante Umbenennung von Straßen in Berlin kritisiert. In der Berliner Zeitung monierte er: « Das ist keine ernsthafte Debatte, it’s marketing. Ich nehme es jedenfalls nicht ernst. » Seine erste Reaktion auf die Liste Berliner Antisemitismusbeauftragten sei schallendes Gelächter gewesen. Read More →
Maria Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances has died at age 71 last Sunday at her home in Detroit. Ewing made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1976 in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro She sang 96 Met performances until her finale as Marie in Berg’s Wozzeck in 1997. Read More →
The multidisciplinary GoodmeshConcours combining music with at least one other art form, such as theater, photography, painting or dance, has awarded First Prize to Dutch violinist Charlotte Spruit (*2000) and French painter Jérémie Queyras (*1997), son of the cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. Read More →
The Vietnam Youth Music Institute (VYMI) has decided to establish the Vietnam Youth Symphony Orchestra (VYO) with the support and strategic cooperation from Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO). Read More →
Thomas Dausgaard
Photo: Ulla C. Ekblom
The Seattle Symphony announced that Music Director Thomas Dausgaard, is stepping down from its role as Music Director, ahead of his originally planned final season in 2022/2023. Danish conductor Dausgaard, 58, who appeared regularly as a guest conductor since 2010 and became Principal Guest Conductor in 2014, began his tenure as Music Director of the Seattle Symphony in 2019. Read More →
The Foyer in the Bolshoi Theatre
Photo: Georges Franck
Nachdem der Fall in Russland und auch international für Aufsehen gesorgt hatte (Pizzicato-Berichte, siehe unten), hat die vom Moskauer Bolschoi eingesetzte Kommission einen neuen Schuldigen für den Tod des im Oktober auf der Bühne zu Tode gekommenen Yevgeny Kulesh gefunden. Read More →
