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Postcard from Vienna
Are you visiting the land of waltzes and Glühwein? Unwind to reviewer Chanda VanderHart's cultural picks.
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GrazDer König tanzt
Couperin, Marais, Rebel, Lully
Neue Hofkapelle Graz; Lucia Froihofer; Michael Hell; Thomas Höft
GrazAlles Walzer
Schubert, Liszt, Godowsky, Kreisler
Willy Büchler; Bernd Glemser; Salonensemble Alt Wien
ViennaPelléas and MélisandeNeue Produktion
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Alain Altinoglu; Marco Arturo Marelli; Vienna State Opera; Dagmar Niefind; Olga Bezsmertna; Adrian Eröd
GrundlseeEin Elfenreigen
Mendelssohn, Purcell
Miriam Andersén; Aris Quartet; Chris Pichler; Ausseer Bradlmusi
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Cecilia Bartoli debuts La donna del lago at the Whitsun Salzburg Festival
Bartoli shines in another Rossini role supported by an uneven cast.
Vinke’s smiling hero saves an otherwise sluggish Siegfried
Stefan Vinke was a convincing, petulant, pouty Siegfried in the third episode in Wagner's Ring cycle in Vienna.
Peter Schneider takes the Valkyries on a wild ride in Vienna
Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s minimalist staging brought the protagonists’ complicated psychological interaction into focus but to the detriment of Wagner’s myth and magic.
Toronto Symphony a Season Highlight at the Konzerthaus Wien
After a 34 year hiatus from the Konzerthaus stage, the Toronto Symphony gave a knockout performance that had everything in spades
Klepper’s Norma self destructs in Graz
Not only was the production devoid of Druids or Romans, it turned Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece into an implausible, trite, contemporary crypto-Che Guevara misadventure.