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Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness

Barenboim, Daniel Berlin State Opera Classical Music Opera Staatskapelle Berlin West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness

The pianist and conductor turns 80 soon, but deteriorating health has kept him from the celebrations he had long planned.

By Javier C. Hernandez

Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’

Barenboim, Daniel Berlin State Opera Der Ring des Nibelungen (Opera) Kampe, Anja Kranzle, Johannes Martin Mahnke, Claudia Opera Schager, Andreas Tcherniakov, Dmitri Thielemann, Christian Villazon, Rolando Volle, Michael Wagner, Richard

Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’

All four parts of Wagner’s epic were presented within a week, in a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov inspired by the work’s experimental roots.

By Joshua Barone