Diana Damrau
Photo: Tanja Niemann
Over sixty years after the premiere of Stravinsky’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’, the young English composer Iain Bell (*1980) takes William Hogarth’s other famous series of engravings ‘A Harlot’s Progress’ as the inspiration for his commissioned work for the ‘Theater an der Wien’. The opera will be premiered on Sunday, October 13th. Read More →
Giuseppe Verdi
The culmination of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s (CSO) celebration of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s bicentenary is a live webcast of Verdi’s Requiem Mass, performed by CSO Music Director Riccardo Muti, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Chorus, and soprano Tatiana Serjan, mezzo-soprano Daniela Barcellona, tenor Mario Zeffiri, and bass Ildar Abdrazakov. The concert will be streamed live around the world, and viewable on more than 30 websites worldwide. www.pizzicato.lu is one of them. Read More →
Der 75-jährige Tenor René Kollo beendet seine Karriere. Das sagte er der Zeitschrift ‘Bunte’. Kollo, der in letzter Zeit ohnehin nur noch Liederabende, Operettenkonzerte und Kirchenkonzerte sang, verabschiedet sich vom Berufsleben mit vier Konzerten in den deutschen Ortschaften Meißen, Magdeburg, Lübz und Wedel. Read More →
25 students will be very fortunate at New York’s Juilliard School next year. Joseph W. Polisi, President of the school, today announced the creation of the ‘Kovner Fellowship Program’ that will be endowed with a gift of $60 million – the largest single one-time gift to the School – from Bruce and Suzie Kovner. Read More →
Das Jubiläum der Wiedereröffnung des Bayerischen Nationaltheaters am 21. November 1963 ist für die Staatsoper in München Anlass, sich mit der Geschichte des Hauses im Zeitraum 1933 bis 1963 zu beschäftigen. Staatsintendant Nikolaus Bachler hat ein Forschungsteam der Theaterwissenschaft München an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität beauftragt, personelle und ästhetische Entwicklungen und Brüche insbesondere nach dem 2. Weltkrieg an der Bayerischen Staatsoper zu untersuchen. Read More →
Leonard Slatkin
Good news from Michigan: Detroit Symphony Orchestra has increased found raising by 43%. $18.9 million in contributions guarantee a balanced budget for the first time since 2007. Over $6 million of the total came from the exceedingly generous giving of DSO directors and trustees. Read More →
Der französische Film-, Theater- und Opernregisseur Patrice Chéreau ist heute im Alter von 68 Jahren in Paris an Lungenkrebs gestorben. Der 1944 geborene Chéreau war schon als Jugendlicher in Theaterkreisen bekannt und geschätzt. Mit 19 machte er seine ersten Inszenierungen an einem professionellen Theater. Read More →
Riccardo Muti
The performance at Chicago’s Symphony Center is sold out, but audiences around the globe can get a ‘free seat’ to Verdi’s 200th Birthday celebration with Riccardo Muti. Pizzicato is a partner of the Chicago Symphony for the event which will take place on the evening of Thursday, October 10, 2013 – 200 years to the day that Verdi was born. Read More →
Japanese composer Akira Miyoshi died last Friday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 80. He was a child prodigy on the piano, studying with Kozaburo Hirai and Tomojiro Ikenouchi. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Henri Challan and Raymond Gallois-Montbrun from 1955 to 1957. He was very influenced by Henri Dutilleux. Miyoshi composed music featuring a mixture of Japanese and western techniques, symphonic and chamber music as well as choral works and operas.
Tonight, in the Kammermusiksaal of the Berlin Philharmonie, Gidon Kremer’s protest/benefit concert (first Pizzicato artcile here) takes with pianists Martha Argerich, Khatia Buniatishvili, and Daniel Barenboim, flautist Emmanuel Pahud, trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov, composer Giya Kancheli, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, bayan player Elsbeth Moser, the Ukrainian children’s choir Shchedryk, conductor Roman Kofman and Gidon Kremer’s Kremerata Baltica. Read More →
