Christian Thielemann to Succeed Daniel Barenboim at Berlin State Opera
The conductor, an acclaimed Wagnerian, was named to replace Barenboim, who stepped down in January after three decades because of health problems.
In Mountain View, Ark., Preserving the Ozark Way of Life
Follow the winding roads to Mountain View, Ark., home of the Ozark Folk Center, and you’ll be rewarded with fiddles, banjos, guitars and a passion for music.
Posted inGainsbourg, Serge Music Paris (France)
At the Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris House, Time Stands Still
The long-contested, now beloved French singer’s home is open to the public, with everything exactly as it was on the day he died in 1991.
Posted inClassical Music Deutsch, Helmut Doppelganger (Musical Work) Guth, Claus Kaufmann, Jonas Park Avenue Armory (Manhattan, NY) Schubert, Franz
‘Doppelganger’ Review: A Soldier Confronts His Mortality
At the Park Avenue Armory, an imaginative and viscerally shocking staging of Schubert songs from the director Claus Guth and the tenor Jonas Kaufmann.