Exhibition on composer Anton Bruckner in the Austrian National Library
AThe first thing you notice is the meticulous musical notation. Although the long, hand-drawn bar lines in the scores of ...
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Kirsten Flagstad, the voice of the 20th century who managed to defeat the 'fake news' that linked her to the Nazis
On February 2, 1935, a Norwegian soprano named Kirsten Flagstad (Hamar, 1895 - Oslo, 1962) caused a sensation in her ...
La Montagne Noire by Augusta Holmès in Dortmund
LThere are also a lot of daring and clever women to talk about here, but that's precisely why we start ...
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 ...
Wagner forces.. Why were they called “musicians” and “orchestra”?
The group was established in the Russian Krasnodar region in 2014 and was in charge of the Russian officer Dmitry ...
Helmuth Kiesel on the allegations of anti-Semitism against Hugo Ball
Hugo Ball, photographed in 1926 Image: Picture Alliance Anyone who labels Hugo Ball, the initiator of Dadaism, as an anti-Semite ...
Gerhaher about Mendelssohn: I don’t hear anything Jewish in Elias
The historical-critical edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s oratorio “Elias” has been available in five volumes since 2022, edited by Christian ...
Opera premiere in Ulm: Song of love and sea
In that part of the Atlantic Ocean known as the “Celtic Sea” lies the island of Ouessant, a good eleven ...
Lucerne Festival: Lots of colorful music
Ahen those responsible for the Lucerne Festival decided on the current topic of "diversity" around two years ago, they probably ...
Bayreuth Festival: The next Senta sensation
Swithout a doubt, Elisabeth Teige is the great discovery at this year's Bayreuth Festival. Already as Freia in "Rheingold" and ...
