Intérprete: Christine Schäfer

What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.

Zarter Gesang, behagliches Orgelspiel und ein perkussives Orchester, all das bot dieser Abend mit den Bamberger Symphonikern in Berlin.

Was man nicht haben kann, begehrt man stets am meisten. Mit viel Humor und Liebe zum Detail lässt Dieter Dorn Figaro und die gesamte Bewohnerschaft des gräflichen Schlosses einen „tollen Tag“ durchlaufen. Ein toller Abend mit stimmlicher und schauspielerischer Glanzleistung aller Beteiligten bei den Opernfestspielen in München. 

It often takes time to adjust to Nikolaus Harnoncourt's tempi, but this concert performance of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro enabled the audience to discover new colours in a well known score. 

A new production of Ariadne auf Naxos is a major draw in itself, but a queue for standing room whose end is on the other side of the opera house is news even in Vienna, especially when the performance is not the première, but the fourth in a run of five and also the one that Franz Welser-Möst left to Jeffrey Tate, who has conducted the piece to positive reviews before.

The seventh of the chamber music Proms this year brought together two of the greatest composers of the early 20th century. Though Debussy was twelve years Schoenberg’s senior, of the two works performed it is Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire which was written first, in 1912, with Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola and harp following three years later in 1915.