Asmik Grigorian sings Strauss' “Four Last Songs”
EThe year before Theodor Adorno wrote his cardinal statement in 1949 that writing another poem after Auschwitz would be barbaric, ...
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The singer Kiri Te Kanawa turns 80
AWhen Kiri Te Kanawa made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1974 opposite Jon Vickers' Otello, she confirmed Giuseppe ...
On the death of Wagner tenor Stephen Gould
vBased on his stature and voice, Stephen Gould seemed to be a robust, powerful person who was not expected to ...
Endangered: The children’s choir Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe
KRecently, the German Music Council, in conjunction with the Minister of State for Culture, launched a federal initiative “Music and ...
Emanuelle Haïm at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival
When two daring composers like Richard Strauss and Georg Friedrich Handel meet, labeling has no place. Whether Handel wrote “early” ...
Petrenko conducts “Frau ohne Schatten” in Baden-Baden
Ob the empress had a "heart of crystal" before it broke "in a scream," as the emperor claims at the ...
Camilla Nylund sings Strauss: O farther, quieter peace! So deep in the sunset
EFirst the "Hero Epic", then "A Hero's Life": Those who lived within an hour's reach of the Berlin Philharmonie could ...
