Berlin Philharmonic turns to 2nd `Ring'
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"Die Walkuere" holds the raw material of Wagner caricature: horned helmets, spears, endless scenes and "Ride of the Valkyries." But Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic swept past all that Monday with a cleanly staged, beautifully played performance at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
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Every opera season demands a scene-chewing scandal to feed fansâ appetites for outsize drama, and this summer that niche has been filled in Europe by the new production here of Wagnerâs âMeistersinger.â
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Part of a previously unknown piano concerto by Beethoven will be given its premiere in Rotterdam.
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The New York Philharmonicâs concert in North Korea, to take place on Feb. 26 at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater, will be broadcast live internationally. The broadcast will be produced by the New York Philharmonic and EuroArts Music International, in co-production with the Munhwa Broadcasting Company of South Korea and ARTE France, and in cooperation with the European Broadcasting Union. Details of the broadcast in the United States are to be announced later. The concert, to be conducted by Lorin Maazel, above, the orchestraâs music director, will include the national anthems of North Korea and the United States; the Prelude to Act III of Wagnerâs âLohengrinâ; Dvorakâs Symphony No. 9, âFrom the New Worldâ; and Gershwinâs âAmerican in Paris.â The concert, and the Philharmonicâs visit, have aroused controversy, with some contending that they offer legitimacy to North Koreaâs government.
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Barbra Streisand told a sell-out Berlin  concert crowd on Saturday that she was delighted to perform in  Germany for the first time after turning down several  invitations in the past.
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the city's 250th birthday with a 13-concert, six-country tour of Europe early next year.
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The Berlin Philharmonic and British conductor Simon Rattle will set off on a tour of Japan this weekend, the orchestra said.
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New York is a Mahler town, which is probably why the Cleveland Orchestra made Mahlerâs âResurrectionâ Symphony the punch line for its three-concert series at Carnegie Hall that ended on Thursday.
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Lorin Maazel, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, is to open a run of Wagnerâs âWalkÃ¼reâ at the Metropolitan Opera, 45 seasons after making his debut at the house.
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The composer belts out an impressive concert.
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Opera House Hints at 'Idomeneo' Reversal By DAVID McHUGH The building of the 'Deutsche Oper Berlin' photographed Tuesday morning, Sept.Comment
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Lorin Maazel led the Philharmonic in its first performance in 20 years of Luciano Berioâs âSinfonia,â which he wrote for the orchestra in the tumultuous late 1960s.
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The New York Philharmonic is paying a great deal of attention this season to the Italian avant-garde composer Luciano Berio, who died in 2003
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Sir Simon Rattle, the chief conductor of the internationally renowned Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, accused the German capital of inflicting catastrophic "cultural dismantling" yesterday because of the city ...
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A Russian revolution has shaken up Wagner's "Die Walkuere" at the Metropolitan Opera this season, with a new conductor and leading singers infusing fresh life into the company's 18-year-old production.
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New music is always plentiful in New York, if you look beyond the New York Philharmonic and the two big opera companies. But even that qualification may change soon.
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Just two days after New York&#39;s Museum of Modern Art closed its spectacularly successful temporary exhibit in Berlin, the spotlight turned to another attention-grabbing art display in the German