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08.08.2018
Time with Beat Furrer. Composer portrait at the Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is devoting the concert series “Zeit mit Furrer” (Time with Furrer) to the works of the Austro-Swiss composer Beat Furrer (photo: Manu Theobald / EvS Musikstiftung). Four concerts will feature the works of the artist, who was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2018. »more«
22.06.2018
Bärenreiter and Alkor at 2018 Summer Festivals
The critical editions published by Bärenreiter/Alkor will be used at prominent festivals at home and abroad this summer too.
Some of the editions at the Salzburg Festival, for example, include the staged new production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and two concertante performances of Bizet’s “Les pêcheurs de perles! with Placido Domingo in the part of Zurga. Special tribute will be paid to Beat Furrer, who was awarded the Siemens Music Prize in May, with a concert series devoted to the composer’s works. The lake stage in Bregenz will see a performance of Kasper Holten’s spectacular production of Bizet’s “Carmen” (photo: Karl Forster) again this year, while Brigitte Fassbaender will be staging Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” at the Theater am Kornmarkt with prizewinners of the singing competition “Neue Stimmen”. Those who missed Barrie Kosky’s novel realisation of George Frideric Handel’s “Saul” in Southern England’s Glyndebourne in 2015 will have the chance to see and listen to it this year, among the singers the star countertenor Iestyn Davies as David.
More festival events : “[t]akte” 1/2018 (link on the right)
15.05.2018
Bärenreiter’s publisher
Together with his wife Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle and now with their son Clemens Scheuch too, Leonhard Scheuch has been at the helm of the Kassel-based publishers Bärenreiter-Verlag for a full 42 years. The Swiss-born music publisher celebrated his eightieth birthday on 21 May. »more«
15.05.2018
Pulsating Energy
The composer Dieter Ammann, whose works are published by Bärenreiter-Verlag, is to be awarded one of the 2018 Swiss Music Prizes. Born in Aarau in 1962, Am-mann leads a musical double life. As a composer, he enjoys great international success with complex scores written in the slowest of tempi and exuding rich inner life, as shown, for example, by the orches-tral work “Core – Turn – Boost” at the Lu-cerne Festival. »more«
25.04.2018
Handel all over Europe
This will be a wonderful summer for Handel fans! Handel’s works – operas, oratorios, sacred choral works – will be an attraction at several well-established summer festivals in several European countries. All performances will use material based on the “Halle Handel Edition” published by Bärenreiter. »more«
06.10.2017
“Rivale” by Lucia Ronchetti at Staatsoper Berlin
Lucia Ronchetti is a specialist in the highly sensitive and subtle new interpretation of baroque subjects. For the Staatsoper Unter den Linden she has composed Rivale, a chamber opera for female voices, solo viola and ensemble based on Antoine Danchet’s Tancrède, the famous episode from Torquato Tasso’s renaissance epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata about love and rivalry between Tancredi and Clorinda. ›more‹
24.05.2017
“Lotario”, “Jephtha” and “Esther”: Handel in Göttingen and Halle
The Göttingen Handel Festival traditionally opens with a new production of an opera – this year on May 19 it’s Handel’s opera seria Lotario. Meanwhile in Halle, the late oratorio Jephtha is presented by Halle Opera on 26 May for the opening of the Handel Festival there. Tatjana Gürbaca, one of the most sought-after directors of her generation, is responsible for this production, and the conductor is Christoph Spering.›more‹
