Chamber Music & Recitals

Operetta enthusiast Barrie Kosky has landed a gigantic success with Offenbach's subversive and hilarious reversion of the Orpheus myth at the Salzburg Festival. Kosky created a magically precise and witty staging with numerous extravagant costumes in a...

The Norwegian violinist Ole Bull (1810-1880) is often called "the Nordic Paganini". Wherever he played, he held audiences spellbound with his incredible technique and personal charisma. In his native Norway he is revered first and foremost for his...

Now in his nineties, Herbert Blomstedt, former conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, is still a powerful interpreter of the symphonic repertoire. His program with the Wiener Philharmoniker is...

Christian Thielemann is a compelling advocate for German music, and his Salzburg Festival 2020 programme with the Wiener Philharmoniker is smack-dab at the heart of his favoured repertoire. For his long-awaited return to the Summer Festival, he opens...

Claus Guth, who had already staged the Messiah" at the Theater an der Wien in 2009, is exactly the right person to present the oratorio "Saul", which dates from this period of upheaval in 1739, in an almost suspect manner. This could not go wrong with...

Catalani's masterpiece, first performed in 1892 at La Scala in Milan, is best known for it's aria "Ebben? Ne andr? lontana". With nuanced harmonies and colourful instrumentation, he pays great attention to the orchestra sound. He chose highly unusual...

55 years after it's premiere, the Stuttgart Ballet revisits John Cranko's legendary "Romeo and Juliet" - the very choreography which laid the foundations for the "Stuttgart Ballet Miracle", the company's meteoric rise to fame. Vividly etched characters,...

This new release is an intimate portrait of Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) on the occasion of her centennial on May 18th 2018. The Swedish soprano had an incredible technique and was the world's leading dramatic soprano between 1955 and 1975. Rare TV and...

In the early romantic period, struggling with the aftermath of absolutism's collapse, people had to find new solutions in all realms of communal life. Because old certainties vanished, another vision of society emerged, shaped by artists: poets, painters...

The Magnificat is the Virgin Mary's song of praise to God after one of the Bible's greatest wonders: the angel Gabriel visiting her with the message that she is to be the mother of God's son. + In his setting composer Kim Andr? Arnesen expresses the...

John Cranko's mastery of the art of the pas de deux finds it's climax in Onegin, one of the most successful full length ballets of the 20th century. Set to sweeping music by Tchaikovsky, it tells Alexander Pushkin's tragic love story of the world-weary...

The premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die tote Stadt at the Bayerische Staatsoper in autumn 2019 was praised both by press and audiences. Marlis Petersen (Marie / Marietta) and Jonas Kaufmann (Paul) sang the main roles, with the Bayerisches...