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30. December 2020

Met Stars Live in Concert New Year’s Eve Gala rehearsal sneak peeks (December 2020).

More information about the New Year’s Eve Gala can be found here.

New Year’s Eve Gala: “Torna a Surriento”
Matthew Polenzani and Angel Blue sing an excerpt from De Curtis’s “Torna a Surriento” at the Parktheater in Augsburg, Germany, in rehearsal for the Met Stars Live in Concert: New Year’s Eve Gala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcVu28DgaOA

New Year’s Eve Gala: Quartet from La Rondine
Angel Blue, Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena, and Matthew Polenzani sing an excerpt from Puccini’s La Rondine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DJ7glYqBaQ

New Year’s Eve Gala: “Una voce poco fa”
Pretty Yende sings an excerpt from Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQ4LsnG6W8

New Year’s Eve Gala: “D’amor sull’ali rosee”
Angel Blue sings an excerpt from Verdi’s Il Trovatore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kup8F4bwaPg

28. December 2020

New Year’s Eve gala at Parktheater Augsburg (December 2020)

The Metropolitan Opera will present a live-streamed New Year’s Eve Gala on December 31, featuring performances by Met stars Angel Blue, Javier Camarena, Matthew Polenzani and Pretty Yende from the Parktheater Augsburg. The concert, part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series, will be streamed live on the Met’s website at 4:00 p.m. EST/ 10:00 p.m. CET and will be available for an additional 14 days thereafter. READ MORE

9. December 2020

Daniel Ciobanu’s Debut-CD at WDR 3 TonArt (December 2020)

The debut CD of the Romanian pianist Daniel Ciobanu was reviewed by Hannah Schmidt in the broadcast on December 9th at WDR 3 TonArt.

“Technically demanding and with mental power, the busy pianist positions himself. His interpretations are orchestral and surprising. A musician with great contrasts”.

You can listen to it here.

7. December 2020

BRYN TERFEL at Met Stars Live in Concert (December 2020)

Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel will perform a holiday program with special musical guests, on Saturday, December 12, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Brecon Cathedral in his native Wales, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert pay-per-view series. Terfel will be joined by two rising Welsh singers, soprano Natalya Romaniw and tenor Trystan Llŷr Griffiths, as well as by harpist Hannah Stone, pianist Jeff Howard, and the Welsh traditional folk group Calan. The recital will be streamed live via the Met website and will then be available on demand for 14 days.
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1. December 2020

Mari Kodama’s Letter to Beethoven on Deutschlandfunk (December 2020)

“Dear Ludwig, the world today would be so different without your music”

Since early childhood, Beethoven’s music has played an important role in the life of the pianist Mari Kodama, she writes in her letter to the composer in the series “Letters to Beethoven” of Deutschlandfunk. Even after 40 years of engagement with his music, she is still surprised by discoveries time and again.

Here you can read the letter and have Mari Kodama read it to you.

 

1. December 2020

Omer Meir Wellber’s debut with the Wiener Symphoniker (December 2020)

With their “Living Room Concerts”, the Wiener Symphoniker present concerts “at home” for their audience. Omer Meir Wellber will lead the traditional Vienna orchestra for the first time on this occasion. The Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, and Music Director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo, will conduct works by Mozart and Kodály as well as tangos by Piazzolla, and will also play the accordion.

Friday, December 4, 2020, 20.15
OMER MEIR WELLBER, conductor & accordion
WIENER SYMPHONIKER

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ouvertüre zur Oper „Die Zauberflöte“ KV 620
Zoltán Kodály: „Tänze aus Galanta“
Astor Piazzolla: „Libertango“ und „Oblivion“

You can watch the “Living Room Concerts” on the Facebook page of the Wiener Symphoniker and on the streaming page of the website.

20. November 2020

Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” conducted by Kent Nagano published as an audiobook (November 2020)

In connection to the World Children’s day, PENTATONE is delighted to announce the release of its most important classical music children’s album as audiobooks.

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, in which a young boy catches a wolf and brings him to the zoo, is arguably the most famous children’s story with classical music. Once designed to introduce young audiences to the workings of an orchestra and its instruments, it showcases the composer’s superb ability to bring a simple story to life, giving each character a recognizable motive and instrumental colour. This Grammy-winning recording was made in 2003, as a charitable work for orphanages, performed by the Russian National Orchestra under the baton of Kent Nagano. We are now releasing the English and Spanish versions as audiobooks narrated respectively by star actors Sophia Loren and Antonio Banderas.READ MORE

20. November 2020

Metropolitan Opera announces New Year’s Eve Gala “Met Stars Live in Concert” (November 2020)

Met Stars Live in Concert: New Year’s Eve Gala
with Angel Blue (Soprano), Javier Camarena (Tenor), Matthew Polenzani (Tenor) and Pretty Yende (Soprano) on December 31st at 16:00 EST/22:00 CET live from the Parktheater in Augsburg, Germany

The Metropolitan Opera announced plans today to live-stream a pay-per-view New Year’s Eve Gala, featuring performances by Met stars Angel Blue, Javier Camarena, Matthew Polenzani, and Pretty Yende, from the Parktheater, a stunning example of neo-Baroque architecture situated in Augsburg, Germany. The concert, part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series, will be streamed live on the Met’s website at 4pm EST/10pm CET, and then be available on demand for 14 days.

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