Acclaimed German composer Aribert Reimann has died at the age of 88. Music Publisher Schott Music announced the news citing that the composer died in Berlin on March 13, 2024. It comes a month after his final public appearance happened in February when Reimann accepted the German Music Author Award from the GEMA collection society for his life’s work. Born {…}
(© Semperoper Dresden/Matthias Creutziger) Semperoper Dresden is set to present the Dresden premiere of Reimann’s “Die Gespenstersonate” starting on Feb. 17, 2023. The opera, which features a group of living and undead meeting for dinner, will be staged by Corinna Tetzel. The opera will star Sarah Alexandra Hudarew, Justyna Ołów, Jennifer Riedel, Eva Maria Summerer, Matthias Henneberg, Jürgen Müller, Philipp {…}
(Credit: https://www.muenchen.de/) The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced that it will resume the rehearsals of Aribert Reimann’s massive opera “Lear” on April 24, 2021. The rehearsals were discontinued on April 17 as one member of the production team tested positive for COVID-19, which triggered mandatory isolation for all the persons involved with the rehearsals. After subsequent extensive control tests on the {…}
(Credit: Koichi Miura/Metropolitan Opera) The Dallas Symphony has announced that it has extended the contract for its Music Director Fabio Luisi for another five years, throughout the 2028/29 concert season. Luisi began his first season as Music Director in the current 2020/21 season after a year of holding the title Music Director Designate. Luisi also holds the positions of General {…}
(Credits: Gregor Hohenberg/Sony / Chris Singer / Rebecca Fay / Artists Management Zürich official website) The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced the full slate for its 2020-21 free streaming season. Here is the look. Walter Braunfels’ “Die Vögel” will feature Wolfgang Koch, Günter Papendell, Caroline Wettergreen, Emily Pogorelc, Yajie Zhang, Eliza Boom, Bálint Szabó, Theodore Platt, George Vîrban, Charles Workman, and {…}