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Month: April 2012
Uwe Eric Laufenberg Resigns
The director of the Cologne Opera, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, has confirmed at the
press conference this afternoon that he will leave his post at the end of the
coming season. His contract runs until 2016.
Denoke Bows Out of Bayreuth
Soprano Angela Denoke announced on Wednesday that she would not be appearing as Br¸nnhilde, one of the critically important roles, at the 2013 Bayreuth Festival Ring Cycle.
Show Boat at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago has begun with the current season’s production of Show Boat a series of musicals of the American theater to be featured in coming years.
Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz by ENO
When the ENO does really innovative work, it does so with style. Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz may have taken 34 years to reach London fully staged, but this ENO production made such a strong impression that it might be years before it will be forgotten.
Folk songs that aren’t folk songs
The Wigmore Hall Dvo?·k series culminated in a concert by Bernarda Fink and Roger Vignoles.
Armide, Opera Atelier
I have to rethink my week, because somehow I have to get to see Opera Atelier’s production of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide again.
Il Sogno di Scipione
It’s unclear whether Mozart composed this highly undramatic “dramatic action” when he was fifteen, for his kindly master Prince-Archbishop von Schrettenbach of Salzburg, or the following year for the newly-elected successor, Prince-Archbishop Colloredo, who, soon afterwards, had the young man literally kicked out of his service.
Ignacio Garcia-Belenguer Appointed
Ignacio Garcia-Belenguer, 45, has been named as the new general manager of Madrid’s opera, Teatro Real.