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10. November 2020

Mari Kodama’s Album Launch (November 2020)

Mari Kodama will release the new CD “MON AMI, Mon amour – French Repertoire for Cello and Piano” together with Matt Haimovitz on November 6, 2020 on PENTATONE. The works of Francis Poulenc, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Darius Milhaud.

The vibrant musical palette of cellist Matt Haimovitz and the graceful insight of pianist Mari Kodama exquisitely meld in MON AMI, Mon amour.

The Virtual Album Launch will take place on Friday November 13th at 16.00 – LIVE on Facebook.

Here you can also listen to the album.

1. November 2020

Midori’s Beethoven CD is “CD of the week” (November 2020)

Midori’s latest album with Beethoven’s violin concerto and two romances, recorded with Festival Strings Lucerne in March 2020, is “CD of the week” on NDR kultur. You can find the CD review here.

29. October 2020

Omer Meir Wellber conducts the premiere of “Die Zauberflöte” (October 2020)

Omer Meir Wellber will lead the premiere of the new production of “Die Zauberflöte” on November 1, 2020. This grand opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was newly staged by Josef E. Köpplinger.

Beforehand Omer Meir Wellber spoke with the dramaturg Johann Casimir Eule, the interview can be found here.

“Die Zauberflöte” overview:

November 1, 2020, 18.00 Dresden, Semperoper
Staatskapelle Dresden
Mozart: Zauberflöte Premiere

More information can be found here.

28. October 2020

Omer Meir Wellber and the BBC Philharmonic release new CD (October 2020)

Omer Meir Wellber, together with the BBC Philharmonic, soprano Claudia Barainsky and clarinetist John Bradbury, will release a recordings by Paul Ben-Haim at Chandos on October 30.READ MORE

15. October 2020

Midori and Festival Strings Lucerne release Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Romances with Warner Classics (October 2020)

As one of the world’s preeminent soloists, the violinist Midori has been performing on premier stages around the globe for over 35 years. Warner Classics will release a recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and his two Romances for Violin and Orchestra by Midori and the Festival Strings Lucerne on October 16th to celebrate the composer’s 250th birthday in December 2020.READ MORE

8. October 2020

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestar announces “Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience” (October 2020)

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra announced that Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience will premiere on October 19, 2020, with the first of five episodes that will traverse the region and will offer classical music, popular music, and Holiday Pops as the series unfolds. All five episodes will be made available free to the public on the Pittsburgh Symphony’s website: pittsburghsymphony.org.

15. September 2020

Joyce DiDonato at the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum with Met Stars Live in Concert (September 2020)

Next Saturday, September 12, Joyce DiDonato will give a performance at the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum. During her concert, sculptures by the artist Bosco Sodi will also be exhibited, the installation will be made by the Belgian art and antiques dealer Axel Vervoordt.

The concert is available until 25 September.

Further information about the program and tickets can be found here.

3. September 2020

1. September 2020

Lise Davidsen at Met Stars Live in Concert (August 2020)

Soprano Lise Davidsen sings Strauss’s “Morgen!” and an aria from Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera in her August 29 performance, transmitted via satellite from Oslo as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. You can watch the concert on-demand at metopera.org/metstars.

27. August 2020

Metropolitan Opera in New York presents MET STARS LIVE IN CONCERT (August 2020)

MET STARS LIVE IN CONCERT

The Met Launches Unique Pay-Per-View Series Featuring Some of Opera’s Biggest Stars Singing Mainstream Operatic Repertoire in Striking Locations Across Europe and the U.S.

Weekend series of 12 live concerts opens Saturday, July 18, with Jonas Kaufmann performing from a historic abbey in Polling, Bavaria

Summer and fall concerts also include Roberto Alagna, Piotr Beczała, Angel Blue, Joseph Calleja, Javier Camarena, Diana Damrau, Lise Davidsen, Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, Aleksandra Kurzak, Anna Netrebko, Sondra Radvanovsky, Bryn Terfel, Pretty Yende, and Sonya Yoncheva

Locations include a terrace in Èze, France, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, a castle in Oslo, palaces in Vienna and Malta, a historic mansion in Washington, D.C., and churches in Barcelona and Wales