The Staatstheater Wiesbaden has announced a cast change for its world premiere of “Oryx and Crake.” The company said that Anastasiya Taratorkina will sing the role of Oryx replacing the originally announced Heather Engebretson. Taratorkina is a first prize winner and audience award winner of the ARD International Music Competition 2021, and is now an ensemble member of the Staatstheater {…}
(Credit: Sven Helge Czichy) Ukrainians have vowed not to perform at the International Wiesbaden May Festival if Anna Netrebko performs. According to reports out of Wiesbaden, the Ukrainian Consul General in Hesse, Vadym Kostiuk, said, Ukrainians are not allowed to perform in the same place as Netrebko due to sanctions imposed on the soprano in Ukraine. The report also noted {…}
(Credit: Sven Helge Czichy) Ilia Jossifov, a Bulgarian-Israeli musician, has resigned from his post as the orchestra director of the Hessian State Theater in the city of Wiesbaden due to antisemitic bullying. In his resignation letter issued on Sunday Jan. 22, 2023, Jossifov stated that he has been subjected to “systematic antisemitic belittling and months of harassment” by his colleague {…}
The Staatstheater Wiesbaden has named two new intendants. The company revealed that Dorothea Hartmann and Beate Heine will serve as joint Intendantinnen and will succeed Uwe Eric Laufenberg starting during the 2024-25 season. The news was announced in the state capital by the Hessian Minister of Art and Culture, Angela Dorn, and Wiesbaden’s Mayor, Gert-Uwe Mende. The new intendants will work alongside {…}
(Credit: Sven Helge Czichy) The Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden has announced that it will remain closed until at least June 2021 due to the current epidemiological situation in Germany. “Performances will be canceled in all the state theaters of the federal state of Hessen,” said the opera house in the statement on its official website. The opera house also stated that {…}
(Credit: Sven Helge Czichy) The Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden has announced the extension of its shutdown until at least May 1, 2021. “On March 8 we were allowed to resume with rehearsals, but the resumption of performances depends on many factors. We can say that it will be a while before the curtain rises again,” said the opera house in the {…}
(Credit: Andreas Weiss) Bass-baritone Florian Boesch will give a recital at the Teatro de la Zarzuela on Jan. 25, 2021. Boesch will perform Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise,” op. 89, D 911 alongside pianist Justus Zeyen. The presentation of “Winterreise” marks Boesch’s second performance at Teatro de la Zarzuela this season. For his first concert in the lied cycle on {…}
(Credits: Simon Fowler / Frances Marshall / © Matthias Baus) Staatsoper Hamburg has announced that it will live stream its premiere of Massenet’s opera “Manon” on Jan. 24, 2021. Due to the German government COVID-19 regulations, the production will be performed without a live public. The opera will star Ioan Hotea as Chevalier Des Grieux, as Lescaut, Dimitry Ivashchenko as {…}
(Credit: Sven Helge Czichy) The Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden has announced that due to new regulations that came into effect in the city of Wiesbaden, it has been forced to cancel all the performances in the Great House until at least Nov. 1, 2020. Per the new order, all events with more than 100 people are prohibited. The special permission to {…}