Germany Tchaikovsky, Pique Dame: Soloists, Choir and Orchestra des Bayerisches Staatsoper / Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 9.2.2024. (ALL)
Bayersiches Staatsoper’s underwhelming new production of Pique Dame in Munich
Antoine Lévy-Leboyer
Rattle conducts the Bayerisches Landesjugendorchester in Hindemith, Schoenberg and Mahler
Germany Hindemith, Schoenberg, Mahler: Tsotne Zedginidze (piano), Bayerisches Landesjugendorchester / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Herkulesaal, Munich, 28.1.2024. (ALL)
François-Xavier Roth discusses the music of Bernd Alois Zimmermann with Antoine Lévy-Leboyer
François-Xavier Roth, Musical Director of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, will conduct Die Soldaten the legendary opera by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, in Cologne, Hamburg, and Paris. He discusses this extraordinary yet still too little-known composer.
Never a dull moment in Barrie Kosky’s new Munich production of Die Fledermaus
Germany Johann Strauss II, Die Fledermaus: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bavarian State Opera / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Nationaltheater, Munich, 7.1.2024. (ALL)
Bayerische Staatsoper’s new bawdy slapstick production of Le nozze di Figaro
Germany Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bayerische Staatsoper / Stefano Montanari (conductor). Nationaltheater, Munich, 30.11.2023. (ALL)
Can the Swiss tango? Ástor Piazolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires in Geneva
Switzerland Piazzolla, María de Buenos Aires: Soloists, Cercle Bach de Genève, Chorus and Orchestra of the Haute École de Musique de Genève / Facundo Agudin (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Genève, 27.10.2023. (ALL)
Kirill Petrenko’s unsentimental reading of Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand
Germany Mahler: Staatschor Latvija, Tölzer Knabenchor, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayerisches Staatsoper / Kirill Petrenko (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 8.10.2023. (ALL)
Sir Simon Rattle premieres Jolas and treats the Munich audience to Mahler
Germany Jolas, Mahler: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Isar Philharmonie, Munich, 28.9.2023. (ALL)
