Found for you in the newspapers: DIE FREITAG-PRESSE (OCTOBER 4, 2024)
Berlin
Mysterious success: “Nabucco” with Anna Netrebko at the State Opera
Verdi made his breakthrough with, of all things, “Nabucco”. Can the State Opera and Anna Netrebko explain this with the new production? The opera criticism.
Berliner Zeitung.de
Verdi’s Nabucco in Berlin: Anna Netrebko sings the failed Verdi work to perfection
The Berlin State Opera starts its new premiere season with Nabucco and an opening of the Lindenoper long-term archive. Anna Netrebko sings the compositionally unsuccessful Verdi work to perfection, Emma Dante’s direction, rather flat direction, hardly goes beyond a few flowery stage settings. Where is the white flag on the conductor’s stand? Vienna has shown the way. Despite all the legitimate controversy surrounding Ms. Netrebko, such an intense, warm, voluminous voice won’t be around again any time soon. To this extent, she completely deserves the booming, unprecedented shouts of Brava.
By Johannes Karl Fischer
Klassik-begeistert.de
Berlin
Storm of cheers for Anna Netrebko – hurricane of boos for the production
“Nabucco” with Anna Netrebko
Nobody sings it like that today. Except one
DieWelt.de.Kultur
Wien
“Opera Oscar” for Theater an der Wien
München
International Opera Awards 2024: The “Oktoberfest of the Opera World” with José van Dam and Donna Leon (Paid item)
SueddeutscheZeitung.at
Knittelfeld/Stmk.
Opera „La Bohème“. Musik von Giacomo Puccini Italian Opera Company
The ensemble of the Compagnia d’Opera Italiana di Milano is once again a guest at the Knittelfelder Kulturhaus. This time with Puccini’s La Bohème, one of the most important and most popular operas of all. The Compagnia d’Opera Italiana can rightly call itself the oldest and most successful musical touring theater in Europe.
mein Bezirk.at
Berlin
Respighi’s “La Fiamma”: Do nothing, the witch will be burned
DieWelt.de.Kultur
“It has never been my style to shout and demean others.” (Paid item)
Opera director Barrie Kosky talks about German humor, his love for the “Muppet Show” and his longing for glamor on stage.
SueddeutscheZeitung.de
Bremen
Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra expects a deficit of millions
NeueMusikzeitung/nmz.de
Venice
Music Biennale: It opens inner resonance spaces in the listener
The Music Biennale honors Rebecca Saunders and the Ensemble Modern: A renaissance of absolute music is emanating from Venice.
FrankfurterAllgemeine.net
Comment
Top notes: How intrigues against the ORF 3 boss derailed. And why Bochum is not to be envied
News.at.spitzentoene
News
Conductor honored: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla receives Würth Prize 2023
Links to English-language articles
Madrid
Teatro Real 2024-25 Review: Adriana Lecouvreur (Cast B)
London
Heartfelt and thought-provoking: Eugene Onegin, at the Royal Opera, reviewed (Subscription required)
spectator.co.uk
Razzmatazz and reflection in Poulenc’s Gloria
Flawless Glass: the Philip Glass Ensemble at the Barbican
seenandheard.international.com
Wexford
Resurrecting an English rarity: Stanford’s
The Critic at Wexford Festival Opera As Wexford Festival Opera prepares to stage Stanford’s English satire The Critic, we explore the work’s history and its place in the composer’s operatic output
gramophone.co.uk
New York
Quinn Kelsey and Nadine Sierra galvanize the Met’s revival of Bartlett Sher’s Rigoletto
bachtrack.com.de
Philadelphia
Review: Droning Overwhelms the Lives of THE LISTENERS in New Mazzoli-Vavrek Opera
broadwayworld.bww.opera
Chicago
COT unearths an enjoyable, historic curio with Paër’s “Leonora”
chicago.classical.review.com
Lyric Opera of Chicago stages a Fidelio for the twenty-first century
seenandheard.international.com
Boston
Handel and Haydn Society 2024 Review: Mozart & Michael Haydn’s ‘Requiem’
operawire.com.handel
Berkeley
Cal Performances 2024 Review: Harawi
Julia Bullock Gives an Extraordinary Performance of Messiaen’s Song Cycle
Serial
Q & A: Mezzo-Soprano Emma Alessi Innocenti Talks About The Teatro Sperimentale & Her Role In ‘Criminal Procedure’
operawire.com.mezzo
Recordings
Gramophone Classical Music Awards Announces 2024 Winners
Ballet / Dance
A Ballet Opening in Paris Offers a Mix of Debuts and Returns (Subscription required) The choreographers Johan Inger and William Forsythe will open the Paris Opera Ballet season with three pieces.
Exhibitions/art
Wien
Paul Gauguin’s problematic colonial view remains unexplained in the art forum
DerStandard.at.story
Gauguin exhibition in Vienna: The innovative problem bear of modernity
Kurier.at.Kultur
Film
1939 – 2024: Actor John Amos died
John Amos appeared in series such as Roots, Good Times, Men in Trees and West Wing. He was 84 years old. As a participant in a variety of series, John Amos is one of the faces of US television – now he has died at the age of 84, according to consistent US media reports. The actor died on August 21st in Los Angeles, as the New York Times reported, citing Amos’ publicist Belinda Foster. A cause or why his death only now became public remained unclear.
Die Presse.com
media
Fixed 3SAT
3sat has stood for sophisticated journalism for 40 years. Art, culture and science have their home here. But now there is a risk of a quick end. With the announced reform of public broadcasting, it is planned to discontinue 3sat. The station is to be merged with Arte, which de facto means the end for 3sat. Let’s not just accept this. We need 3sat as a platform for critical debates, as a stage for creative diversity and as a voice for European culture.
New job surprises everyone: sensation! Victoria Swarovski now works for ORF
The likeable Austrian is actually in front of the camera for RTL on “Let’s Dance”. Now Swarovski is suddenly presenting on ORF.
Politics
Austria
National Council election: The final result is here
There is no change in the mandates. The FPÖ won the election with 28.8 percent. That’s an increase of 12.6 percentage points. However, it took a very long time before the final figures could be published on the Ministry of the Interior’s homepage. The ÖVP had hoped that in the end a mandate would go to them from the FPÖ. That was no longer the case. The percentages of the individual parties only changed marginally. As of October 24th, the Freedom Party will be represented in parliament with 57 members (plus 26), the ÖVP with 51 (minus 20), the SPÖ with 41 (plus 1), the Neos with 18 (plus 3) and the Greens at 16 (minus 10).
Kurier.at
Migration, Corona, women: The reasons for the FPÖ’s triumph
The Freedom Party achieved the best result in its history in the Austrian election. Why the Ibiza scandal rolled off her radar and how she became a profiteer from the crisis.
NeueZürcherZeitung.ch
The will of voters is relative
Pretty much anything can be argued with the alleged will of the voters at the moment. From coalition variants to government formation orders that were not granted. But everyone agrees on one thing: First of all, the game is played for time. Even five days after the election, only one thing is largely undisputed: the FPÖ won last Sunday. The relative majority, anyway. Accordingly, everything in political discourse is relative.
Die Presse.com
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Bottom line
Kindergarten staff demonstrates in Vienna: “I’m not a craft aunt”
The staff of private kindergartens in Vienna are demanding uniform conditions, smaller groups, more recognition. As a result, kindergarten was canceled for 63,000 children on Wednesday.
Die Presse.com
In Austria
Butter crisis: prices skyrocket beyond German records
Due to the situation on the butter and milk fat market, further price increases could be necessary, Spar told the APA. The record price in Germany, which was set over two years ago, has now been surpassed: As of this week, consumers at supermarkets and discounters have been paying 2.39 euros for a 250 gram packet of private label German brand butter.
Oe24.at
For reservations
AUA increases prices: up to 115 euros more in economy
The AUA has increased the prices for seat reservations. In economy class, the desired seat now costs up to 115 euros.
Heute.at
