Das grosse Festspielhaus in Salzburg

Für die Opernproduktion von Shostakovichs ‘Lady Macbeth von Mzensk’ hat ein Salzburger Stahlbaubetrieb das Bühnenbild gebaut. In monatelanger Zusammenarbeit mit den Bühnentechnikern der Festspiele wurden Alu-Teile mit immerhin 20 Tonnen an Stahlteilen kombiniert. Read More →

Probe mit Regisseur Bernd Schmitt
(c) Andreas Knapp

Mozarts ‘Idomeneo’ mit Asylsuchenden und geflohenen Künstlern, die dritte Opernproduktion des Vereins ‘Zuflucht Kultur’, hatte bereits bei  den Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspielen, in Bad Homburg und in Biberach Erfolg. Nun erfolgt ein Schritt in Richtung Internationalität auf hohem Niveau: der ‘Idomeneo’ ist im Rahmen eines Erlebnistags zum Festivalthema ‘Identität’ zum ‘Lucerne Festival’ 2017 eingeladen. Read More →

Jochem Hochstenbach

Der niederländische Dirigent Jochem Hochstenbach (47) wird im September Generalmusikdirektor in Trier. Das teilte die Stadt nach einstimmiger Wahl im Stadtrat am Mittwochabend mit. Eine Findungskommission hatte ihn, wie Pizzicato berichtete, unter 127 Bewerbern ausgewählt und dem Stadtrat vorgeschlagen. Read More →

John Axelrod

American conductor John Axelrod, 51, Artistic and Musical Director of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla (ROSS) since 2014, has added another function, thus taking the complete control over the orchestra. Read More →

Recruiting musicians from the Lille National Orchestra and students from the local Music High School, young conductor Lucie Leguay, 27, has created the Orchestre de Chambre de Lille, a chamber orchestra that will give its first concert next Sunday, 2 July. More events are already planned for the fall 2017 and for 2018, some of them in locations where one does not necessarily expect such an orchestra, the conductor told the newspaper La Voix du Nord.

Midori
(c) Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Violinist Midori will be a member of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music from the 2018-19 school year, according to a press release. « In addition to the preeminent musical education offered at Curtis, the school’s emphasis on community engagement was a key element in Midori’s decision to relocate to Philadelphia. Read More →

It happens that one can see a patron reading a printed score during a concert. And it happens also that the patron’s neighbour feels distracted by the page-turning. Now imagine somebody following the score on a smartphone or a tablet. And yet, it’s exactly what the Royal Philharmonic will try at Cadogan Hall in its Myths and Fairytales series. The app EnCue by Octava, so it is announced, delivers real-time programme notes to audiences’ mobile or tablet devices. Read More →

Martha Argerich
Photo: Adriano Heitman

Musicians of the Athens State Orchestra have been told that a special concert with pianist Martha Argerich on July 15 has been cancelled due to health problems of the pianist. Before, Argerich already cancelled her appearances in Sydney scheduled for 29 and 30 June, as well as Saturday 1 July. Read More →

Josep Caballé-Domenech
(c) Staatskapelle Halle

Spanish conductor Josep Caballé-Domenech, 44, has been announced as the next Artistic Director of the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra. The position was vacant during two and a half years. Read More →

Charles Dutoit
(c) ICMA /Martin Hoffmeister

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) has announced that with effect from October 2019 Charles Dutoit, 80, currently the RPO’s Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, will assume the position of Honorary Conductor for Life. Read More →