Oliver SailerBass Well-rounded: Oliver Sailer with lied recitals, oratorios and operaFor Oliver Sailer, the young bass from Tyrol, October begins with a Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf recital. He then meets up…
“Radio music”: Dominik Köninger explores a forgotten world“Radio music” is a fairly unique phenomenon: Once the newly-created German broadcasting companies realised that their listeners were not the…
Johannes WildnerConductor The old and the new: Johannes Wildner conducting works from Beethoven to Staud, via Brahms and StraussThe Slovene National Theatre Symphony heads each and every programme with a contemporary work by a Slovene composer; on Oct. 7th, that…
Romantic opera: Christoph Seidl as Hermit in “Der Freischütz”Christoph Seidl, the young Austrian bass and member of the ensemble of the Aalto-Theater in Essen, takes on the part of the…
Katharina RuckgaberSoprano Concert: Katharina Ruckgaber sings Rossini in KaiserslauternGerman soprano Katharina Ruckgaber is rehearsing the title role of Leoš Janáček’s “The Cunning Little Vixen” at the Theater Freiburg and she diverts herself…
Nora SourouzianMezzo-soprano Role debut: Nora Sourouzian as Amneris in DenmarkHaving been successful with parts such as Eboli, Azucena, or the Wood Dove in Schönberg’s “Gurrelieder”, French-Armenian Mezzosoprano Nora Sourouzian now makes…
Christoph FillerBaritone Contemporary opera: Christoph Filler in Péter Eötvös’s “Der goldene Drache” in InnsbruckWith a libretto by Roland Schimmelpfennig that the author created from his own play “Der goldene Drache” (“The Golden Dragon”),…
Sophie GordeladzeSoprano Karl Goldmark: Sophie Gordeladze in Wexford in “Ein Wintermärchen”In 1908, the Imperial-Royal Court-Opera, today’s Wiener Staatsoper, premièred the last of Karl Goldmark’s six operas: “The Winter’s Tale”, based…
Concerts: Siyabonga Maqungo visits Christiane Karg in FeuchtwangenThis year, KunstKlang Feuchtwangen, a festival founded by Christiane Karg, is a part of the “1700 years of Jewish life in…