It had just been announced that Singer Klose, like Baritone Josef Hermann before her, was switching over to Berlin’s State Opera under a three-year contract. On top of the reaction of Municipal ...
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Colleen Barry published the first interview with renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim since his severe neurological illness forced him to give up his full-time post at the Berlin State ...
In 1931, she began singing small parts for the Berlin State Opera, once even performing for Hitler, before fleeing to France as the Nazis took power and joining the Opera Comique. It was during ...
For contemporary classical composers, writing children’s opera can be similarly transfiguring — it’s like casting a spell ...
"Regrettably, our arguments were not convincing enough for the German state opera," the ministry added. When Netrebko will premiere on the Berlin Opera stage on Friday evening, Ukrainian ...
In 1937 Karajan made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin State Opera, conducting Fidelio. He then enjoyed a major success at the State Opera with Tristan und Isolde. In 1955 he was ...
The 82-year-old has served as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin State Opera and La Scala in Milan, but is equally well known for his efforts to promote peace through ...
The first Berlin production of Richard Strauss's operatic endurance test "Elektra" took place before a bewildered and benumbed audience at the Royal Opera to-night. Such a riot of musical thunder ...
She started as a ballet dancer but turned to singing after growing 6ft tall with size-seven feet, taking vocal lessons with Maria Linker, a veteran of the prewar Berlin State Opera. Her first ...