The latest Karajan Community Letter focuses on two composers, Schubert and his Second Symphony and Saint-Saëns and his Third, the Organ Symphony. Here is the link to this week’s Karajanist Community Letter. Read More →
The international music industry conference Midem in Cannes has been definitely brought to an end, its organizer RX France has announced. Midem, where Pizzicato was a participant during several years and where first the Cannes Classical Awards, then the Midem Classical Awards took place, started to dip in the early 2010s, shortly after the organizer had cancelled the MIDEM Classical Awards which then were turned into the independent International Classical Music Awards, ICMA. Pizzicato has been a jury member in all those years under the three appellations. Read More →
The Hungarian media group Papageno is joining the ICMA Jury. Besides running the most comprehensive and visited online platform in Hungary for classical music, opera & theatre, and publishing 30+ cultural program magazines a year, Papageno also has two popular weekly radio shows – Capriccio & Papageno Klasszik – on Radio Klasszik 92.1. Read More →
Mit großer Mehrheit hat der Nürnberger Stadtrat beschlossen, das Opernhaus der Stadt sanieren zu lassen. Die Kosten werden auf rund 500 Millionen Euro geschätzt. Die Renovierung soll schätzungsweise zehn Jahre dauern. Während der Umbauzeit soll die Operntruppe in die Kongresshalle umziehen. Ab dem Jahr 2025 soll die Interimsspielstätte in dem alten Nazi-Bau in Betrieb gehen.
Metropolitan Opera New York
The Metropolitan Opera in New York will require a COVID-19 booster shot from their patrons and restrict entry to anyone eligible who hasn’t yet gotten one.Audience members have been required to be fully vaccinated to enter the Met since that September reopening and a mandatory employee vaccine policy took effect over the summer. Read More →
Die NDR Radiophilharmonie verschiebt das für Februar 2022 angekündigte Brahms-Festival um ein Jahr auf März 2023. « Wir wollten mit dem Brahms-Festival unserem Publikum im Kuppelsaal ein ähnlich intensives Erlebnis bieten, wie es uns im Herbst 2019 mit dem Beethoven Festival gelungen ist“, so Matthias Ilkenhans, Manager der NDR Radiophilharmonie. « Unter den derzeitigen Bedingungen der Corona-Pandemie und den damit verbundenen Einschränkungen für den Konzertbetrieb ist dies leider nicht möglich.“ Read More →
American conductor Ira Levin, artistic director of Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, was dismissed by the institution on Monday, Brazilian media report. Read More →
John Axelrod
(c) Bruno Fidrych
Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra has announced John Axelrod to conduct six performances from December 18-24 of Beethoven Ninth Symphony op. 125 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and Suntory Hall in Tokyo as well as in Osaka. Read More →
Many musicians from the Afghan Philharmonic as well as students and teachers of the National Conservatory of Music in Kabul have fled the country and are now seeking political asylum in Lisbon, Portugal. The Taliban, who now control Afghanistan, have suppressed all musical activities in the country.
William Christie
(c) Sébastien Grébille
Nach der Oper Theodora von Georg Friedrich Händel erklang nun innerhalb kurzer Zeit ein weiteres großes Werk dieses Komponisten in der Luxemburger Philharmonie, nämlich ‘L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato‘. Uwe Krusch berichtet. Read More →
