This post is the first in the series of three Tom’s Tips on opera-going in Northern Germany. This post will highlight Cologne (Koeln), followed by the Tom’s Tips for Hamburg and Berlin. Interspersed between the Tom’s Tips will be William’s reviews from the Hamburg Staatsoper (See Michael Schade, Nmon Ford, Gabriele Frola Brilliant in Hamburg’s New [...]
Entries from April 2009
Tom’s Tips: Opera-going in Northern Germany’s Biggest Cities – Part I: Cologne
April 29th, 2009
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German Birds Fly High at Los Angeles Opera in Rarely Seen “The Birds” – April 23, 2009
April 26th, 2009
Los Angeles’ super-genius film-maker Alfred Hitchcock released flocks of aggressive birds in his renowned and justly famed film “The Birds” upon startled and unsuspecting film-goers decades ago, but now Los Angeles Opera has released very exotic birds of its own in their new production of German composer Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) opera “The Birds (Die Voegel)” [...]
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Michael Schade, Nmon Ford, Gabriele Frola Brilliant in Hamburg’s New “Death in Venice” – April 19, 2009
April 22nd, 2009
Hamburg Staatsoper’s general director Simone Young continues on her cycle of new productions of Benjamin Britten’s works, that has previously included “Billy Budd” and “Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Her third new production is “Death in Venice”, a co-production with the Volkskoper Vienna, where it will be mounted subsequently. For the opera’s lead, Gustav von Aschenbach, Young had [...]