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Ein farbenprächtiges Geburtstagskonzert für Louis Andriessen
Dirigent Bas Wiegers rettet Louis Andriessens Geburtstagsfest mit dem Radio Filharmonisch Orkest.
The inescapable burden of loss: Osvaldo Golijov’s Falling Out of Time
A semi-staging of Golijov's “tone poem in voices” in Boston's Symphony Hall.
Prom 67: premieres and sublime Sibelius from Oramo and the BBCSO
Who would have thought celebrating a Black Mass could be quite such fun?
A colourful and fast-paced revue in Amsterdam
Mohammed Fairouz’s second opera, The New Prince, premiered in Amsterdam, is directed by Lotte de Beer as a colourful, dizzyingly fast-paced revue.
Pulsating new Andriessen at Holland Festival
Louis Andriessen’s new opera is a masterly expedition into the grand and grotesque mind of Athanasius Kircher, polymath and fantastist, but it is hampered by a clumsy libretto.
Minimalist Oidípous doesn't quite hypnotise
Pierre Audi's final Holland Festival closes with Calliope Tsoupaki's new ancient Greek oratorio about Oedipus.