#aribert reimann

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Miniaturen (Poetik zur Musik)

[Bild Putten mit Lyra (Laeishalle) ©: → Ajepbah / Wikimedia Commons]            In das Zentrum eines Festivals Miniaturen zu stellen, ist mehr als nur Programm. Es ist programmatische Metaphysik. Denn das Kleinste trennt vom Allen, vom All, oft kaum eine hauchdünne Wand. So erzählt Jorge Luis Borges von einem „regenbogenfarbenen Kreis von fast unerträglicher Leuchtkraft (…) und…

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Shakespeare’s influence on Succession has not gone unnoticed by fans. Easter eggs abound, from Logan Roy’s distaste of the Bard to Frank stalling for time by referencing Much Ado About Nothing. The characters themselves also embody Shakespearean archetypes, with Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Titus Andronicus reflected in Logan’s brutal, power-hungry nature. Yet the most obvious Shakespearean influence by far is King Lear.  

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King Lear seems tailor-made for an operatic adaptation, and in fact, Giuseppe Verdi (a major Shakespeare fan who scored operatic versions of Macbeth, Othello and The Merry Wives of Windsor) worked with his librettists for years to adapt King Lear before finally abandoning the project without writing a single note. He later confessed that he was terrified and intimidated by the heartbreaking scene of Lear wandering the moors carrying the body of his beloved daughter. 

Luckily for us, the play was eventually adapted into an opera by German composer Aribert Reimann. First performed at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera in 1978, Reimann’s Lear follows the original pretty faithfully. The title role was created especially for the legendary German baritone, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who starred in the premiere. Now considered a modern classic, Lear has been produced by major opera houses throughout Europe and North America. San Francisco Opera offered the American premiere (in English translation) in 1981, with Thomas Stewart taking over the title role. Recent stagings include prominent presentations at the Paris Opera in 2016, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence in 2019, and a major revival at the Bavarian State Opera in 2021. 

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Bayerische Staatsoper - Lear

Bayerische Staatsoper – Lear

Foto ©Wilfried Hösl Dopo aver ripreso a pieno ritmo la sua attività anche grazie alla discesa dei contagi che permette l’ ingresso di circa settecento spettatori, la Bayerische Staatsoper ha presentato il Lear di Aribert Reimann, (more…)

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Happy birthday Aribert Reimann

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Carl Friedrich Zelter - Wandrers Nachtlied (1813)

Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Piano: Aribert Reimann.

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Eine Nähe zum Publikum aufzubauen, das ist Sebastian Nordmann, dem Berliner Konzerthaus-Intendanten extrem wichtig. Und zwar auf allen nur erdenklichen Kanälen. Tagsüber lassen sich im Vestibül des klassizistischen Musentempels am Gendarmenmarkt diverse digitale Spielereien ausprobieren, bis hin zum Flug durch den Saal mittels Virtual- Reality-Brille. Und sogar auf dem Videospiele-Portal Twitch ist das Konzerthaus regelmäßig aktiv. Aber auch bei den Live-Konzerten will Nordmann Neues wagen. Im November beispielsweise mit einem Festival, das den schön doppeldeutigen Namen „Aus den Fugen trägt“. Die besonders im Barock beliebten mehrstimmigen Kompositionen werden dabei sein, allerdings in ungewohnter Form, wenn nämlich der Cembalist Jean Rondeau und der Perkussionist Tancrède Kummer über Bachs „Goldberg-Variationen“ improvisieren. Fazil Say wird einen Klavierabend zu gesellschaftspolitischen Themen konzipieren, bei einem Dunkelkonzert steht ein Werk von Georg Friedrich Haas für sechs Flügel im Zentrum, eingeladen ist auch die Techno-Marching Band „die Meute“. Sopranistin Fatma Said ist "Artist in Residence" Ebenfalls grenzenlos denkt die Sopranistin Fatma Said, die in der kommenden Saison „Artist in Residence“ am Gendarmenmarkt ist. Von Jazz über Tango bis zum romantischen Kunstlied reicht die Palette ihrer Ausdrucksformen, sie tritt mit einem A Cappella-Männerquintett auf und unternimmt mit dem Konzerthausorchester eine Klangreise rund ums Mittelmeer, bis in ihre Heimat Ägypten. Chefdirigent Christoph Eschenbach ist auch in seiner letzten Saison weiterhin für die großen sinfonischen Brocken zuständig, er wird sich Mahlers 2. und 5. Sinfonie vornehmen, sowie das Klavierquintett von Brahms in der „genialen“ Orchestration durch Arnold Schönberg. Zum Musikfest leitet er eine Hommage an den Komponisten Aribert Reimann, bei seinem Abschiedskonzert wird er Mozarts Requiem mit der „Unvollendeten“ von Schubert kombinieren. Ehrendirigent Ivan Fischer kehrt für vier Programme zurück, unter den Gästen am Pult des Konzerthausorchesters sind auch die Dirigentinnen Elim Cham, Stephanie Childress, Lucie Leguay und Alondra de la Parra.

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September 02 in Music History

1397 Death of Italian composer and organist Francesco Landini. 

1661 Birth of German composer and organist Georg Bohm.

1716 Birth of composer Johann Trier.

1750 Birth of composer Pehr Frigel.

1806 Birth of wood and straw instrument virtuoso Michal Jozef Guzikov in Szklow. 

1813 Birth of bass-baritone Gustav Holzel.

1814 Birth of Hungarian composer Mihaly Mosonyi.

1863 Birth of Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock in Amsterdam. 

1863 Birth of French pianist Isidore Philipp in Pest. 

1871 Birth of baritone Kennerley Rumford.

1875 Death of American violinist and conductor Ureli Corelli Hill.

1888 Birth of Hungarian bass-baritone Friedrich Schorr in Nagyvarad. 

1892 Birth of composer Felix Wolfes.

1895 Birth of soprano Mercedes Llopart.

1896 Birth of soprano Rosetta Pampanini.

1900 Birth of bass Wilhelm Strienz.

1904 Birth of Swedish tenor Set Svanholm in Vasteras. 

1910 Birth of baritone Bruce Boyce.

1911 Birth of Chilean composer Rene Astaburuaga in Santiago.

1915 Birth of composer Hans Joachim Koellreutter.

1916 Death of tenor Max Schlosser.

1917 Birth of Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida. 

1919 Birth of composer Gideon William Waldrop.

1924 FP of Rudolf Frim's Rose Marie, with great reviews, in NYC.

1927 Birth of composer Tzvi Avni.

1928 Birth of composer Miloslav Istvan.

1930 Birth of baritone Zdzislav Klimek.

1934 Birth of American composer Michael Sahl in Boston, MA.

1936 Birth of British composer David Blake in London.

1938 Birth of soprano Ruzena Maturova.

1942 Birth of American composer Greg A. Steinke.

1943 Birth of American cellist Gayle Smith in Los Angeles.

1945 Birth of soprano Sona Ghazarian.

1951 Birth of American composer Ira J. Mowitz.

1954 Birth of American composer Timothy Kucij in Whittier, CA.

1954 Birth of American composer and harpist Stephanie Bennett.

1956 Birth of English oboist and conductor Paul Goodwin.

1960 FP of W. Walton's Symphony No. 2 at the Edinburgh Festival by the Royal Liverpool Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard.

1963 Death of tenor Laszlo Szemere.

1966 FP of Nino Rota's ballet La Strada 'The Road' from his score for the Fellini film, at La Scala in Milan.

1970 Death of Dutch composer Kees van Baaren in Oegstgeest. 

1971 Birth of Hungarian composer Pèter Koszeghy in Balassagyarmat.

1972 FP of K. Penderecki's Cello Concerto, at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.

1973 Death of tenor Ralph Errolle.

1975 FP of Joonas Kokkonen's opera The Last Temptations in Helsinki.

1980 FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' opera The Lighthouse in Edinburgh.

1981 Death of Polish composer Tadeusz Baird in Warsaw. 

1992 FP of Aribert Reimann's opera Das Schloss 'The Castle', from the novel by Franz Kafka, at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin.

1996 Death of American composer Otto Luening at age 96, in NYC. 

1996 Death of American composer Lee Gannon, auto accident in Nashville, TN. 

1997 Death of Rudolph Bing, former director of the MET Opera.

1999 Death of baritone Giuseppe Modesti.

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Am Fuß des Regenbogens: Trauer um Peter Eötvös.

[Beitragsbild: Wikipedia, → Gaspar Stekovicz]           “Der zweite tragische Verlust in kurzer Zeit nach Aribert Reimann für die hörbare Gegenwartsmusik”, schrieb gestern → Manuel Brug in der WELT — indem “anhörbar” auf “hörbar” substrahiert wird, freilich, zugleich ein so feiner wie unnötiger Seitenhieb gen … ich schreibe einmal “Abstraktismus”; unnötig, weil die Darmstädter Schule eh kaum noch…

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Aribert Reimann - Lear: Final scene Fischer-Dieskau

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Gerald Salonga conducts PPO Valentines Concert at CCP

#PHinfo: Gerald Salonga conducts PPO Valentines Concert at CCP

QUEZON CITY, Feb. 12  --   Celebrate Valentines day with the soothing, classical strings of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of guest conductor Gerard Salonga in the PPO’s 6th season concert at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater) with Soprano Andion Fernandez-Ching as the guest soloist.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines in a release said the concert includes Lucio San Pedro’s Ang Buwan sa Kabundukan, Franz Schubert’s Erlkőnig, Manuel De Falla‘s Siete Canciones Populares Españolas, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Tatiana’s Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin), Jeffrey Ching’s My Heart Stayed Numb (The True Story of King Kong) and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no.6, op. 74, B minor “Pathetique”. 

Currently the music director of the ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra in Manila, and is in his second season as assistant conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerard Salonga has also guest-conducted the HK Philharmonic, Philippine Philharmonic, Shanghai Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, Evergreen Symphony, Bangkok Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, Orchestra Victoria in Melbourne. Early this year he made his debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.  In December of 2016 Gerard orchestrated the Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra by National Artist Col. Antonino Buenaventura, which was given its world premiere by the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and bassoonist Adolfo Mendoza.

Soprano Andion Fernandez – Ching is a soloist of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 2001 to 2010. She graduated with honors from the Universität der Künste, Berlin, and studied voice with Karan Armstrong and contemporary music with Aribert Reimann following her studies with Fides Cuyugan-Asencio at the University of the Philippines.  She is a prizewinner of Operalia International Opera Competition (Placido Domingo World Opera Contest, Hamburg) and the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, and has sung in the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, the Festspielhaus in Baden Baden, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Gulbenkian Auditorium in Lisbon, the Kallang Theatre and Victoria Theatre in Singapore, the Glazunov Hall in St. Petersburg, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

Tickets are priced at Php1500/1200/800/500/400, with discounts available to students, senior citizens and groups.  For inquiries, please call the CCP Box Office at 8832-3704.  (CCP)

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References:

* Philippine Information Agency. "Gerald Salonga conducts PPO Valentines Concert at CCP." Philippine Information Agency. https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1034488 (accessed February 12, 2020 at 04:36PM UTC+08).

* Philippine Infornation Agency. "Gerald Salonga conducts PPO Valentines Concert at CCP." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1034488 (archived).

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LE ROI LEAR, un délice à l'Opéra

LE ROI LEAR, un délice à l’Opéra

  Lear opéra contemporain d’Aribert Reimann au Palais Garnier, avec une distribution impressionnante. Il est rare de voir des productions d’œuvres contemporaines. Plus qu’une reprise, une redécouverte, avec l’impressionnant Bo Skovhus !

  Lear

Opéra en langue allemande en deux parties (1978), Musique Aribert Reimann, Livret Claus…

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Carl Friedrich Zelter - Wonne der Wehmut

Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Piano: Aribert Reimann.

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MEDEA | Aribert Reinmann | Vienna State Opera 2010: Michael Boder | ARTHAUS MUSIK from Arthaus Musik GmbH on Vimeo.

Get your DVD / Blu Ray here >>> AHM.lnk.to/Medea-ViennaVD

Marlis Petersen, Michaela Selinger, Elisabeth Kulman, Michael Roider, and Adrian Erod star in this Vienna State Opera production of the Reimann opera conducted by Michale Boder and directed by Marco Arturo Marelli.

Catalog No.: 101552