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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-02-19 10:04:33
Resignation at Salzburg as Mozart goes bust
The Mozarteum Foundation has found itself suddenly penniless after 11 months of Covid. Its artistic director Andreas Fladvad-Geier has resigned and the foundation is undergoing ‘consolidation’. The foundation, created in 1880 and with a huge archive of Mozart artefacts, runs a January festival that is presently directed by Rolando Villazon. There has been no statement […]
2017-06-24 03:49:47
[…] “Mrs. Schneller, the other officers and I agreed to call the pre-school outreach program Poco a poco,” said Kaili. (Poco a poco means “little by little”, and is an Italian term commonly used in music notation.) We also choose the motto ‘sharing the joy of music one child at a time’. “ So far this year Kaili has been joined by 8 of her classmates in these outreach events: Nadja Geier, cello Samuel Bender, viola Maggie Kasinger, violin Sarah McGuire, violin Augusto Diedrich, violin Darius Edwards, saxophone Stephen Adcock, tuba Danielle McInturff, cello Plans are already underway for the program to continue in the fall. photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University Music is, in essence, supposed to be a simple and pure form of art and entertainment. Seeing the interaction between children and music is important to me because […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-12-10 11:12:30
Opera lifts curtain on full list of applicants for artistic director
[…] Grimur Grimsson (n.a.), Stage manager og oppsynsmann, Reykjavik Robert Ernst Castellitz (n.a.), Artistic Director, Freiburg Marco Spada (n.a.), Artistic Director, Roma Sam Brown (n.a.), Stage director, London Christina Harris (n.a.), Project Manager, London Reinhard Linden (58), Artistic Director, Kiel Katrin Kolo (44), Founder and Director, Zürich Henrik Schaefer (n.a.), Music Director, Göteborg Ludek Golat (61), General Manager, Ostrava Giuseppe Acquaviva (46), Artistic Director, Livorno Andreas Fladvad-Geier (n.a.), Ballet and opera advisor, Baden-Baden Andrejs Zagars (57), Stage director, Riga Mauro Meli (61), Adjunct professor of management and economy of cultural institutions, Felino Massimo Guantini (ikke kjent), Artistic director and creator, MilanoRok Rappl (36), Artistic Director, Ljubljana Annilese Miskimmon (41), General Manager and Artistic Director, Aarhus Walter Sutcliffe (n.a), Stage director, Berling Tyrone Patersen (n.a.), Conductor, advisor, Ottawa Michael Hunt (n.a.), Producer, Hastings Michal […]
2015-09-06 21:20:00
Die Geier-Wally, or "Vulture Wally", the novel from 1875 by by Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836-1916). It's best known to many from the opera La Wally (1892) by Alfredo Catalani. I've been watching the film version, made in 1921, a smash hit in the post-1918 era. Perhaps it was popular because it portrays a woman who can't be tamed -- a free spirit whom the inhibitions of society cannot restrain. Wally represents the "New Woman" of the modern world. The photo at right comes from the frontispiece of the 1921 reprint of the novel. Die Geier-Wally is not a true Bergfilm like Arnold Fanck's Die heilige Berg, made only 5 years later, technologically and artistically a far greater work of art, but it's interesting and apparently much closer to the novel than to the opera. Walburga Stromminger was a fearless teenager, a tomboy as tough […]
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