Orchestral & Symphonic

In 1964 Deutsche Oper Berlin still had no General Music Director. But Artistic Director Gustav Rudolf Sellner made a virtue out a necessity and - in addition to the permanent conductor Hollreiser, Heinrich and the regular guest conductor Karl B?hm -...

Schubert, Franz's song cycle Winterreise was written late in his life. It is regarded both as a highlight of the genre and as the touchstone by which lieder singers are judged. To succeed in interpreting Winterreise is the artistic equivalent of a patent...

Mozart's masterpiece is presented in a version shortened to 60 minutes for the youngest (from 5 years), young and also adult audiences, thus providing children with their first insight into the fascinating world of opera. Papageno is the presenter, who a

DEAD DREAMS OF MONOCHROME MEN 1989Directed by David Hinton Devised and created collaboratively under the direction of Lloyd Newson Performed by Lloyd Newson, Nigel Charnock, Russell Maliphant and Douglas Wright Music by Sally Herbert... painful, origin

The film "Richard Strauss and his Heroines" explores Strauss' relationship to women. The primary focus lies on his attachment to Pauline, his wife of more than 55 years. Strauss experienced the most varied of epochs in German history, from the Empire to...

Leo Fall was born in Olm?tz (Moravia) in 1873 and died in Vienna in 1925. As with Leh?r, his father was the conductor of an imperial military band. Having inherited the same musical talent, he began playing the violin at the age of five - a further parall

Leh?r, Franz (1870-1948) found remarkably expressive and brilliantly colorful sounds for the drama and romantic moods of this unique topic. The style was decisively influenced by the familiar cadence of Hungarian gypsy music in the composer's native...

The Case of the Three Sided Dream is the documentary film on the life, music and legacy of multi-instrumentalist RahsaanRoland Kirk. Kirk was a one of a kind musician, personality, satirist and windmillslayer who despite being blind, becoming paralyzed

A star event" wrote The Guardian about the performance of Brahms, Johannesms' Second Symphony" with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mariss Jansons. Recalling that this orchestra is now among the leading ensembles in the world," The Guardian as

Emmerich K?lman (1882-1953) ranks next to Leh?r, Franz as one of the leading representatives of the Silver Era ofthe operetta, which was stamped above all by the works of the Austro-Hungarian cultural sphere, and which followedthe classical period of t

On July 11, 2004, Kleiber got into his car and drove to his holiday home in the remote Slovenian village of Konjsica. There he wrote a final letter to a friend in which he bid farewell to the world.

The Romanian conductor Celibidache, Sergiu (1912-96) was one of the most adamant personalities in the musicworld. He rehearsed three times as much as other conductors and avoided making recordings because he believed they were a false representation his...