Posts Tagged ‘classical music’

Performance // Georg Nussbaumer interprets Wagner’s The Ring Cycle

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Article by Henry Andersen – in Berlin; Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013.

A famous story about Richard Wagner tells of the premier performance of his opera Der Ring des Niblungen (sometimes called The Ring Cycle, completed 1883). As the story goes, after one of the arias an old man in the theatre, particularly moved by the singer’s performance began to clap…[read on…]

The Largess of Mini-Mahler

Blog post by Elizabeth Feder – in Berlin; Wednesday, June 20, 2012.

Just because something is small doesn’t mean that it isn’t great. Performed by ensemble Mini, mini-Mahler’s quintessential aim is to make Mahler’s music more accessible to a contemporary audience.
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