New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day Concerts in Berlin
25 December 2009This year, Barenboim returns to Berlin again for the annual end- and beginning-of-year concerts of the Staatskapelle Berlin. On December 31st, 2009 at 7:00 PM and January 1st, 2010 at 4:00 PM, he will perform Beethoven’s Ninth...
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Christmas Concert at La Scala
18 December 2009On Tuesday, December 22nd, Barenboim will conduct the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala in its annual Christmas concert. The orchestra will perform Verdi’s String Quartet in E minor in a version for string orchestra...
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"Una Vita Nella Musica - Artur Rubinstein" Prize in Venice
10 December 2009On Saturday, December 12, Barenboim will receive the "Una Vita Nella Musica - Artur Rubinstein" Prize in Venice. The prize honors his sixty years of performing as a pianist and conductor, and is considered by many to be...
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Placido Domingo at La Scala, 40 years later
7 December 2009Just two days after the premiere of Emma Dante's much-awaited production of Carmen as the season opener of the Teatro alla Scala, Placido Domingo celebrates the 40th anniversary of his debut at the same theater as a young,...
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Opening Night at La Scala: Bizet's Carmen
22 November 2009This week, Daniel Barenboim is rehearsing intensively in Milan for the Teatro alla Scala's grand season opening on December 7th. This year's premiere is an Emma Dante production of Bizet's Carmen. The celebrated Sicilian director...
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Verdi Requiem in Paris and Milan
10 November 2009On November 15th, Barenboim will take the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala on tour to Paris to perform the Verdi Requiem once again, a cycle that began last season. Further concerts will take place on November 18th...
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20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Commemorative Concert
5 November 2009November 9th, 2009 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall's historic fall and the end of a divided Germany. The Staatskapelle Berlin, which belonged to East Berlin twenty years ago, will join Daniel Barenboim in part...
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Benefit Concert for the Renovation of the German State Opera
2 November 2009On Wednesday, November 4th, Barenboim's longtime friend and colleague Placido Domingo, who is currently starring in Simon Boccanegra at the German State Opera, will sing with the Staatskapelle Berlin in the Philharmonie to raise...
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Free Concert Against Violence at the Gethsemanekirche Berlin
31 October 2009On November 2nd, Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin join forces against violence in a special memorial concert in the Gethsemanekirche in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood of Berlin. On November 5th, 1989, four days before the...
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Barenboim Cycle at the Staatsoper: Orchestral Academy
26 October 2009Next Sunday, November 1st, Daniel Barenboim continues his cycle of matinee concerts at the Staatsoper Berlin with a project close to his heart: the orchestral academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin. The education of young...
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Simon Boccanegra premiere with Placido Domingo
19 October 2009This week, Daniel Barenboim is in final rehearsals for the premiere of Simon Boccanegra at the Staatsoper Berlin with Placido Domingo in the title role. Domingo has sung the tenor role of Gabriele Adorno before, and is making his...
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Barenboim Joins Kofi Annan’s Campaign for Climate Justice
16 October 2009Daniel Barenboim recently became a Climate Ally in support of Kofi Annan’s “Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice” campaign for a fair, robust and binding agreement at the UN climate talks to be held in Copenhagen...
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Chopin in Copenhagen and Berlin
12 October 2009This week, Barenboim's Chopin cycle continues with recitals in Copenhagen's Koncerthuset on October 17th and his own musical "home," the Staatsoper Berlin, on October 18th. The program, which will...
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Shostakovich with the Staatskapelle Berlin
1 October 2009On October 7th and 8th, in the Philharmonie and Konzerthaus Berlin respectively, Daniel Barenboim will lead the Staatskapelle Berlin in an all-Shostakovich program. Gidon Kremer will perform the Violin Concerto No. 2 in...
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Chopin turns 200 years old next year
18 September 2009In preparation for the Chopin year 2010, Barenboim begins a Chopin cycle this week that will recur throughout the season. On Monday, September 21st, he performs both Chopin piano concerti with the Gulbenkian Orchestra and...
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La Scala in Japan
6 September 2009This week Daniel Barenboim is in Tokyo, performing Verdi's Messa da Requiem and Aida with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala. On September 4th, the Scala celebrated its 100th concert in Japan as...
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Staatsoper For Everyone: August 29th and 30th
27 August 2009On August 29th and 30th Daniel Barenboim opens the German State Opera's season with two free-admission performances. The first, a performance of Tristan und Isolde with Waltraud Meier and Ian Storey in the title roles,...
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Liederabend with Anna Netrebko
16 August 2009On Monday, August 17th at the Salzburg Festival, Daniel Barenboim will accompany Anna Netrebko in a program of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov songs (see below for complete program). It is Netrebko's first recital,...
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The First Two Weeks of the West-Eastern Divan Workshop and Tour
15 August 2009
Rehearsals for this summer’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra tour began on July 23rd in Pilas, Spain at the Lantana Hostel, a rural campus with dormitories, a swimming pool, and rehearsal facilities.
Barenboim arrived on July 26th...
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West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Tour underway
2 August 2009Today, Sunday, August 2nd, Daniel Barenboim will commence this summer's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra tour with a symphonic program of Liszt, Wagner, and Berlioz in Seville's Teatro de la Maestranza, and the...
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All-Star Cast of Fidelio Arrives at the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Workshop
29 July 2009Today, Wednesday, July 29th, the world-renowned cast of Fidelio arrived in Pilas, Spain to begin rehearsals with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for its tenth anniversary tour. Waltraud Meier, Simon O'Neill,...
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West Eastern Divan Orchestra: Tenth Anniversary Tour
20 July 2009On July 23rd, the members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will convene in Pilas, its Andalusian home base, for this year’s workshop, rehearsing for the concert tour and exchanging views and experiences of life from both sides...
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Barenboim Congratulates Youth Orchestra on its Opera Performance in Ramallah
15 July 2009Daniel Barenboim is “very happy and proud of the achievement of the Youth Orchestra of the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Ramallah.” Yesterday, on July 14th, the opera The Sultana of Cadiz—a patchwork of existing orchestral and...
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On Tour with the Staatskapelle in Granada
July 2009Barenboim returns to Granada with the Staatskapelle in mid-July to perform three concerts in the Palace of Carlos V. This coliseum-like open-air venue is located on the premises of the historical Alhambra. Due to the summer heat,...
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La Scala: Aida and Concert Tour
June 2009Barenboim spent the last half of June in Milan conducting performances of Aida with a rotating cast. He traveled with the Filarmonica della Scala to Rome to perform Verdi’s Requiem, and from 27 June to 2 July he took the...
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Contemporary Music with Young People
June 2009On Sunday, June 14th, the Barenboim cycle at the German State Opera continued with a program of Carter and Berg. Several young musicians from the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Berlin performed some of Elliott...
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Carter and Richard Strauss in the Philharmonie Berlin
June 2009On June 11th, 12th, and 13th, Barenboim led the Berlin Philharmonic in a program of Strauss’ tone poems—Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks—and Elliott Carter concerti, which included Emmanuel Pahud’s European premiere...
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Schloß Schönbrunn Concert with Vienna Philharmonic
June 2009On June 4th, Barenboim conducted the Vienna Philharmonic’s annual Schloß Schönbrunn Concert in the park of the historic palace of the same name. Approximately 100,000 people were in attendance for the night-themed concert, which...
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Ruhr Festival
May 2009On Friday, May 29th, Daniel Barenboim will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto KV 595 in B-flat Major and Mozart’s Symphony no. 41 with the Staatskapelle Berlin at the Ruhr Piano Festival in Wuppertal, Germany.
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60 Years of Germany at the Brandenburg Gate
May 2009On Saturday, May 23rd, Daniel Barenboim will perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in front of the Brandenburg Gate in celebration of the Federal Republic of Germany’s 60th anniversary. The chorus of the German State Opera will join...
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Elliott Carter Chamber Music at Zankel Hall
May 2009On Monday, May 11th, Daniel Barenboim and members of the Staatskapelle Berlin take a break from their Mahler cycle to honor the living composer Elliott Carter, who turned 100 last December. The chamber music program at Carnegie’s...
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Mahler in Bonn, Vienna, and New York
April 2009This week Barenboim embarks on a concert tour with Pierre Boulez and the Staatskapelle Berlin, performing the complete Mahler cycle in the Beethovenhalle, the Musikverein, and Carnegie Hall. The Vienna performances are a...
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Cairo Concert
April 2009On Thursday, April 16th, Barenboim performed in Cairo for the first time in his over fifty years of concertizing. He played Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata and conducted the Cairo Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s...
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Festtage 2009
April 2009This year’s Festtage, the annual Easter Festival of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, opens on April 4th with the premiere of Stephan Herheim’s production of Lohengrin with Klaus Florian Vogt, Kwangchul Youn and Dorothea...
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BARENBOIM RECEIVES THEODOR-WANNER PRIZE
April 2009On Friday, April 3rd, Daniel Barenboim received the Theodor-Wanner Prize for cultural dialogue from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (institute for foreign relations). The prize was awarded to him for his work with the...
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REBUILDING THE GAZA MUSIC SCHOOL
March 2009A donation of 50,000€ was recently made in the names of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Mariam Said, and Daniel Barenboim towards the rebuilding and reopening of the Gaza Music School. The school had opened on October 5th,...
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AIDA AT THE STAATSOPER BERLIN
On Saturday, March 14th, Barenboim begins a series of Aida performances with a cast including Norma Fantini, Anna Smirnova (making her Staatsoper debut as Amneris), and Juan Pons. Further performances will follow on March 22nd,...
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STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN WITH RADU LUPU
March 2009On Monday, March 16th in the Berliner Philharmonie and Tuesday, March 17th in the Konzerthaus Berlin, Barenboim will perform the 6th subscription concert of this season with the Staatskapelle Berlin. The program is as...
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CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE STAATSOPER
March 2009On Sunday, March 8th, the Barenboim Cycle at the Staatsoper continues with works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in continuing celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday. The Staatskapelle’s principal cellist Claudius Popp will...
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PARSIFAL WITH WALTRAUD MEIER, PLACIDO DOMINGO, AND MATTI SALMINEN
March 2009On Friday, March 6th, Barenboim returns to the Staatsoper Berlin for Wagner’s Parsifal with an all-star cast. Waltraud Meier, Placido Domingo, and Matti Salminen will perform once again in Bernd Eichinger’s production on Monday,...
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TRISTAN UND ISOLDE AT LA SCALA, BEETHOVEN AND SCHÖNBERG WITH FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA
February 2009On Thursday, February 5th, Patrice Chéreau’s acclaimed production of Tristan und Isolde reopens at Milan’s La Scala with Waltraud Meier and Ian Storey/Robert Gambill under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. Further performances...
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MOSES MENDELSSOHN MEDAL
February 2009On February 3rd, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s 200th birthday, Daniel Barenboim will be presented with the Moses Mendelssohn Medal, an award granted for a lifetime dedicated to tolerance in the spirit of the Jewish philosopher...
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY TURNS 200
January 2009On February 3rd, 200 years after Mendelssohn’s birth, Daniel Barenboim will lead the Staatskapelle Berlin in a concert of the composer’s works: his overture to “Ruy Blas” op. 95, the Violin Concerto in E minor (performed by...
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UPCOMING PIANO RECITALS WITH ELENA BASHKIROVA
January 2009This week, Barenboim will embark on a series of piano recitals with his wife Elena Bashkirova. The first concert will take place on January 26th in Genova’s Teatro Carlo Felice, followed by performances in Turin (Lingotto),...
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CHANGES IN WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA CONCERT TOUR: TWO CONCERTS IN BERLIN ON JANUARY 12TH
January 2009Next week, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra was scheduled to begin its tenth anniversary concert tour in Doha, Qatar with a concert on January 10th. Due to the escalating violence in Gaza and the resulting concerns for the...
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CONCERTS WITH MAURIZIO POLLINI AND THE STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN
January 2009On January 5th and 6th, Barenboim will lead the Staatskapelle Berlin in the Philharmonie and Konzerthaus as part of the orchestra’s subscription series. Centenarian composer Elliott Carter’s music is once again on the program...
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NEW YEAR'S CONCERT WITH THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
January 209After making his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in November 2008, Barenboim will celebrate another debut after over 50 years on stage, this time leading the Vienna Philharmonic in its New Year’s Concert 2009. As always, the...
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