The BBC Philharmonic is being flown home by the earliest available connection, cancelling four remaining concerts. The orchestra were caught on a swaying bridge during the Tokyo quake.
The BBC Philharmonic is being flown home by the earliest available connection, cancelling four remaining concerts. The orchestra were caught on a swaying bridge during the Tokyo quake.
Times are tough, I know, but how is your opera house shaping up to tight budgets? In many cases by putting on fewer shows. Six new productions next year? Eight? Ten?
Dresden’s doing nineteen.
Yep, you read that right. The Semper Oper in Dresden under the vigorous management of Ulrike Hessler, is splashing out on 19 new shows, including the world premiere of an opera by the Czech, Miroslav Srnka, and a revival of the inter-war Czech hit, Schwanda the Bagpiper.
The Germans have a different was of counting premieres that the rest of us, including gala nights and children’s works. Nevertheless, eight new opera, five new ballets and much else suggests that Dresden is not resting on any laurels. Ms Hessler (below) also made it clear that Wagner was being rested ahead of his birthday year in 2013.
Sounds like the Semper’s in pretty good shape. Here’s a German report.
Hang on – news just in: Nürnberg is doing 10 new opera productions, three ballets, 16 plays. Beat that.
photo: dpa
Times are tough, I know, but how is your opera house shaping up to tight budgets? In many cases by putting on fewer shows. Six new productions next year? Eight? Ten?
Dresden’s doing nineteen.
Yep, you read that right. The Semper Oper in Dresden under the vigorous management of Ulrike Hessler, is splashing out on 19 new shows, including the world premiere of an opera by the Czech, Miroslav Srnka, and a revival of the inter-war Czech hit, Schwanda the Bagpiper.
The Germans have a different was of counting premieres that the rest of us, including gala nights and children’s works. Nevertheless, eight new opera, five new ballets and much else suggests that Dresden is not resting on any laurels. Ms Hessler (below) also made it clear that Wagner was being rested ahead of his birthday year in 2013.
Sounds like the Semper’s in pretty good shape. Here’s a German report.
Hang on – news just in: Nürnberg is doing 10 new opera productions, three ballets, 16 plays. Beat that.
photo: dpa
The confrontation at the Brazil Symphony Orchestra cannot be contained within Rio. The implications are universal and the interest intense.
As of this moment, as I understand it, the orchestra has suspended its musicians and ordered them to re-audition for their jobs. Those who fail to attend audition are dismissed. The music director, Robert Minczuk, has given a public assurance on this site that no-one ‘who participates in the evaluation will be dismissed’. His friend and mentor Kurt Masur has appealed to musicians to take part (though whether Mr Masur is in possession of the full facts has yet to be ascertained). Meanwhile, the first players have received dismissal notices.
Reauditioning an entire orchestra is a radical procedure, without precedent in my experience. It would be helpful to know what conductors in other countries think about it. Is it a model to be emulated? Or should it, as some suggest,be stopped immediately on grounds of illegality?
Conductors wield power in 2011 by social consent. I would like to hear some more of their responses here to what is going down in Rio.
The confrontation at the Brazil Symphony Orchestra cannot be contained within Rio. The implications are universal and the interest intense.
As of this moment, as I understand it, the orchestra has suspended its musicians and ordered them to re-audition for their jobs. Those who fail to attend audition are dismissed. The music director, Robert Minczuk, has given a public assurance on this site that no-one ‘who participates in the evaluation will be dismissed’. His friend and mentor Kurt Masur has appealed to musicians to take part (though whether Mr Masur is in possession of the full facts has yet to be ascertained). Meanwhile, the first players have received dismissal notices.
Reauditioning an entire orchestra is a radical procedure, without precedent in my experience. It would be helpful to know what conductors in other countries think about it. Is it a model to be emulated? Or should it, as some suggest,be stopped immediately on grounds of illegality?
Conductors wield power in 2011 by social consent. I would like to hear some more of their responses here to what is going down in Rio.