Sophie GordeladzeSoprano Sophie Gordeladze in TbilisiThis month a hundred years ago, Georgian composer Zacharia Paliashvili’s opera “დაისი” (“Sunset”) saw its world première. In the celebratory…
Katharina RuckgaberSoprano Versatile Katharina Ruckgaber as Polly Peachum in Freiburg and with a lied recital in BarcelonaCreated in 1928 and yet as current as the morning paper! Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s social critique “die Dreigroschenoper”,…
Maximilian Mayer plays Candide at the Gärtnerplatztheater MunichSociety has been a topic for many great artists, including Leonard Bernstein. Based on Voltaire’s satire “Candide ou l’Optimisme” in…
Siyabonga Maqungo guest-starring at the Opernball in ChemnitzBefore South African tenor Siyabonga Maqungo ever dreamt of engagements in Bayreuth, Minnesota, Madrid or Rome, much less becoming a member of…
Oliver SailerBass Oliver Sailer in “La Traviata” in InnsbruckAfter a series of very successful and well-received rôle debuts — among others as Sarastro (“The Magic Flute”), Angelotti and sacristan (“Tosca”),…
Sophie RennertMezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert in recitals and concertsAustrian mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert recently gave scintillating rôle debuts as Charlotte in Massenet’s “Werther” and as Niclausse/Muse in Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann”,…
Wolfgang ReschBaritone Wolfgang Resch with Sophie Rennert and Graham Johnson at the Klavierfestival RuhrAustrian baritone Wolfgang Resch, most recently seen in Johannes Kalitzke’s “Kapitän Nemos Bibliothek” at the Neue Oper Wien is attending the…
Wolfgang Stefan SchwaigerBaritone Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger as Papageno at the Oper KölnBaritone Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger returns to the stage of the Oper Köln in the same rôle in which he introduced himself to…
Johannes WildnerConductor Culture knows no boundaries: Orchestral lieder by Steen Pade and “Lied von der Erde” by Mahler in Sønderborg and FlensburgIn a region that, across the centuries, was repeatedly claimed (and fought over) by Denmark and Germany, the annual cooperative…