Daniel Barenboim - Latest News http://www.danielbarenboim.com/ Latest news from Daniel Barenboim official website en Daniel Barenboim - Latest News http://www.danielbarenboim.com/typo3conf/ext/tt_news/ext_icon.gif http://www.danielbarenboim.com/ 18 16 Latest news from Daniel Barenboim official website TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:03:00 +0200 Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Teatro alla Scala http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news/news/article/wagners-ring-cycle-at-the-teatro-alla-scala.html Beginning Monday, June 17, Daniel Barenboim takes the podium of the Teatro alla Scala to lead two... Teatro alla Scala to lead two complete Ring cycles at the Milan house. The La Scala Music Director conducts a leading roster of singers in Guy Cassier's staging of Wagner's operatic epic.  Video: La Scala's Ring behind-the-scenes ]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:03:00 +0200 Brahms Requiem with West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at Salzburg Festival http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news/news/article/brahms-requiem-with-west-eastern-divan-orchestra-at-salzburg-festival.html Daniel Barenboim reunites with the musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Salzburg,... West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Salzburg, Austria for a May 20 performance of Brahms's magnificent Requiem at the Whitsun Festival. Joining Barenboim and the Divan Orchestra will be premier soloists, who include Whitsun Festival artistic director and mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and bass René Pape. ]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 22:48:00 +0200 Making UK Wagner opera debut, Barenboim to conduct Ring Cycle at 2013 BBC Proms http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news/news/article/making-uk-wagner-opera-debut-barenboim-to-conduct-ring-cycle-at-2013-bbc-proms.html Daniel Barenboim will conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin in the first complete Wagner Ring Cycle at... Ring Cycle at the BBC Proms this summer, marking the Maestro's Wagner opera debut in the United Kingdom. Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will be joined by roster of singers that include Nina Stemme, Bryn Terfel, and Anna Larsson - among many others - for the performances, which run from July 22 to 28. Learn more about the performances and find tickets here. This summer's performances at the BBC Proms follow last year's complete Beethoven symphony cycle at the British summer festival with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra led by Barenboim. ]]> Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:03:00 +0200 APRIL SOLO & COLLABORATIVE RECITALS http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news/news/article/april-solo-collaborative-recitals.html This month, Daniel Barenboim complements his orchestral and operatic performances with two unique... April 12, mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and Barenboim present a recital of art songs and chansons by Ravel, Debussy, Haydn, and Bartók at Berlin's Schiller Theater. Later this month on April 20, Daniel Barenboim returns to the stage of Copenhagen's DR Koncerthuset for the first time since debuting there four years ago. For his Danish recital this April, Maestro Barenboim presents an all-Schubert program. Discover Daniel Barenboim's performances of Schubert on disc. ]]> Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:18:00 +0200 European premiere of "A Sunbeam's Architecture" http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news/news/article/european-premiere-of-a-sunbeams-architecture.html Yesterday Daniel Barenboim led the Staatskapelle Berlin and tenor Rolando Villazón in the European... Sinfonia Concertante, "Haffner" Symphony, and select concert arias, sung by Villazón. ]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:43:00 +0200 Barenboim to lead European premiere of Carter's A Sunbeam's Architecture with Staatskapelle Berlin, Rolando Villazón http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news/news/article/barenboim-to-lead-european-premiere-of-carters-a-sunbeams-architecture-with-staatskapelle-berlin-2.html Next week Daniel Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle Berlin in the European premiere of Elliott... you can read Maestro's remembrance here.   Barenboim's program with the Staatskapelle Berlin pairs Carter's music with that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The two performances will feature Carter's Concertino for Bass Clarinet, performances of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, Symphony No. 35, and select concert arias performed by Rolando Villazón.]]> Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:41:00 +0200 Barenboim to lead European premiere of Carter's A Sunbeam's Architecture with Staatskapelle Berlin, Rolando Villazón http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news/news/article/barenboim-to-lead-european-premiere-of-carters-a-sunbeams-architecture-with-staatskapelle-berlin.html Next week Daniel Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle Berlin in the European premiere of Elliott... Concertino for Bass Clarinet, performances of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, Symphony No. 35, and select concert arias performed by Rolando Villazón.]]> Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:41:00 +0200 Barenboim to lead European premiere of Carter's A Sunbeam's Architecture with Staatskapelle Berlin, Rolando Villazón http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news/news/article/barenboim-to-lead-european-premiere-of-carters-a-sunbeams-architecture-with-staatskapelle-berlin-1.html Next week Daniel Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle Berlin in the European premiere of Elliott... Concertino for Bass Clarinet, performances of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, Symphony No. 35, and select concert arias performed by Rolando Villazón.]]> Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:41:00 +0200 EASTER FESTTAGE IN BERLIN http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news/news/article/easter-festtage-in-berlin.html As part of the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater's Festtage 2013, Barenboim will lead... As part of the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater's Festtage 2013, Barenboim will lead three unique programs at Berlin's Philharmonie this month. He conducts songs by Verdi and Luciano Berio with the Staatskapelle Berlin and Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón, and performs major choral works with the Berlin orchestra as well as the Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala. 
Barenboim's March 26 concert with Villazón and the Staatskapelle Berlin features selections from Verdi's Eight Romances transcribed by Luciano Berio, who describes his adaptation for tenor and orchestra as "a respectful and subtle web of musical references which comments, with the hindsight and distance of 150 years, on the relationship of Verdi’s language, style and manner with time as it passes." 
During the Festtage 2013, the Maestro will lead two choral masterpieces at the Philharmonie Berlin. On March 30, Barenboim conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala in Verdi's Requiem with a lineup of soloists that includes Anja Harteros, Daniela Barcellona, Fabio Sartori, and René Pape. On April 1, Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Staatsoper Choir in a performance of Mozart's Requiem with Maria Bengtsson, Bernarda Fink, Rolando Villazón, and René Pape.
]]> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:43:00 +0100 Berlin Ring Cycle: Wagner 1813 | 2013 http://www.danielbarenboim.com/news/news/article/berlin-ring-cycle-wagner-1813-2013-2.html This Sunday, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater present a new production of... Daniel Barenboim and the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater present a new production of Wagner's Götterdammerung, the fourth and final installment of director Guy Cassier's Ring Cycle, which will be performed for the first time in its entirety later this month by the Berlin house as part of the Easter Festtage 2013. Catch the premiere performances of Cassier's Götterdammerung on March 3, 6 & 10. The Staatsoper will present the full Ring cycle from March 23 to March 31, with subsequent performances taking place April 4 to 10 and April 13 to 21.]]> Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:35:00 +0100