The Nuremberg State Theater is falling to pieces and must close for renovation by 2025.
There’s a plan to build a temporary opera house.
Using an unfinished congress hall that was being built for future Nazi rallies.
It was meant to accommodate 50,000 people. The shell of the building, 38 meters high, is used for educational purposes to demonstrate Hitler’s megalomania.
A suitable venue for opera?
All the way from Santa Monica (as Tom Lehrer mght say).
Amid darkening skies and rising Corona infections, the Spanish controversialist finally stages a long-postponed Lohengrin tonight in Berlin.
‘It’s about justice and democracy,’ he says.
Really?
Artistic Director Matthias Schulz: “LOHENGRIN, with Calixto Bieito, was one of the planned highlights of last season – so we were extremely grateful to our partner ZDF/ARTE that the premiere could take place on TV and online. We thus had a goal in mind, were able to rehearse the production and make it repertoire-ready and, above all, let the audience participate at least from home. But opera is created in space and therefore the live premiere is now something very special for everyone involved – it is very moving to know that this is now finally being performed for an audience!”
Tomorrow, just two days after our world premiere of Peter Eötvös’ SLEEPLESS, Calixto Bieito’s production of LOHENGRIN will finally celebrate its live premiere – with Andreas Schager in the title role and Elza Van den Heever as Elsa von Brabant.
Conductor Thomas Guggeis, the Staatskapellmeister of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and designated General Music Director of the Frankfurt Opera from the 2023/24 season, will make his debut with this opera.
The other ensemble members include Gábor Bretz (Heinrich der Vogler), as well as Martin Gantner (Friedrich von Telramund), Ekaterina Gubanova (Ortrud) and Adam Kutny (Heerrufer des Königs), who have already sung at the TV and online premiere. ‘
Interlochen has signed up an A-list of tutors for its World Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Jader Bignamini, Roderick Cox, Tito Muñoz and Erina Yashima join JoAnn Falletta and Artistic Director Cristian Măcelaru.
Collapse of the tourist trade has left the confectionery manufacturer Salzburg Schokolade facing bankruptcy.
Among other products, the company produces Mirabell Mozart balls for the US group Mondelez.
Stephen Sondheim is sorely missed.
We hear that that Scarpia was a no-show at yesterday’s rehearsal for Thursday’s opening of Tosca.
Evgeny Nikitin was cast in the role, but he missed rehearsal and was replaced by George Gagnidze, who is now expected to take over the first night.
The Met is saying nothing.
Insiders tell us that Nikitin, who has a colourful past, was sacked and is on a plane back home to Russia.
We’ll keep you posted.
Flashback: Nikitin’s Bayreuth incident
The Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra have let it be known overnight that their music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is taking a month off, starting December 19, apparently with exhaustion.
‘This short break will allow time for me to re-energize as we return in the new year with more inspiring art,’ Yannick is quoted as saying.
His last show at the Met will be this week’s troubled Tosca. Xian Zhang has been called in from New Jersey to make her Philadelphia subscription debut in the populat New Year’s concert.
Yannick, 46, has too much going on. In addition to the Met and Philly, he remains music director at Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain and is closely involved with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and various summer festivals.
Greybreards have long advised him to take a break.
It’s barely ten days since the NY Times was celebrating his superhuman ubiquity – ‘at the center of it all’.
Old Bridge – Papatango – Bush theatre
Click here for tickets : £10 to stream for 48 hours after purchase
29 November-4 December
One day all you care about is music, fashion, and boys. The next day there’s no food. Piece by piece your world starts to change so you change with it.
Mostar, Yugoslavia, 1988. Mili, a boy from out of town, dives from the famous Old Bridge. Mina, a local girl, watches. As he falls, she begins falling for him.
This play by British Bosnian writer Igor Memic won the 2020 Papatango New Writing Prize.
Autumn Royal – Irish Rep online
Click here for tickets : $25 for 48-hour on demand access
Autumn Royal will be available for streaming for two weeks only November 29 to December 12
May and Timothy are looking after the father who has long since taken ill to bed. Their own lives are on hold and they’re not getting any younger. Should they stay and help? Or is it time for them to move on?
Autumn Royal is a dark comedy by Kevin Barry is set on the northside of Cork city and is about life and death, love and hate, jealousy, rage, horror, and homicidal notions – just a normal play about a family. Directed by Ciaran O’Reilly it stars Maeve Higgins and John Keating.
Among the attractions rolled out at this morning’s press conference for La Scala season-opening Macbeth is the unexpected late extra that Anna Netrebko will perform a dance in her role as Lady Macbeth.
The choreography is by Daniel Ezralow.
The show is set in a modern city, externally resembling New York. The interiors are pure Milano, inspired by architect Piero Portaluppi. The set designer is Cristiana Picco.
Luca Salsi is Macbeth.
Riccardo Chailly conducts.
The director is Davide Livermore.
