New Year's Concerts in Berlin
29 December 2010At the end of a long month that began with the triumphant premiere of Die Walküre in Milan, Daniel Barenboim returns to Berlin for his traditional end- and beginning-of-year performances of Beethoven's Ninth...
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Die Walküre in Milan and in cinemas worldwide
1 December 2010Daniel Barenboim will conduct the season opener at the Teatro alla Scala on December 7th, a premiere of Guy Cassier's production of Die Walküre in continuation of the theater's cooperation with the German State Opera in...
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Concerts with Filarmonica della Scala
20 November 2010This week, Daniel Barenboim appears as conductor and soloist with the Filarmonica della Scala. The program includes the choral works Gesang der Geister über den Wassern by Schubert for male choir and strings and Bruckner's...
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Fundraiser for Teatro La Fenice
11 November 2010On November 14th, Daniel Barenboim will play an all-Schubert program at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice to raise funds for the theater's foundation. Afterwards, he returns to Milan for rehearsals with the Filarmonica...
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West-Eastern Divan members at the Louvre
8 November 2010Today Daniel Barenboim performs with selected members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in a chamber music evening at the Louvre. He is joined by his long-time friend, stage director Patrice Chéreau, who will narrate...
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Schubert and Schumann
1 November 2010The coming week brings more Schubert and Schumann to Daniel Barenboim's performance schedule as 2010 comes to an end. On November 4th and 5th he will appear in Baden-Baden and Basel with an all-Schubert recital program, and...
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Westphalian Peace Prize
25 October 2010Daniel Barenboim and the musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are the recipients of this year's Westphalian Peace Prize. The prize, which is given every two years, carries an award of 50,000 Euros and is given to...
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Wagner and Judaism
16 October 2010On Sunday, Barenboim undertakes the first opera of his second Ring cycle in Berlin and his first with the Staatsoper in the Schiller Theater. Today and tomorrow, Barenboim and a small group of...
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Mozart and Joneleit: Staatskapelle Subscription Concerts
18 October 2010The Staatskapelle Berlin opened its opera season with a premiere by Berlin composer Jens Joneleit, and on its second subscription concert program, it will perform a further world premiere by the same composer, commissioned and...
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Berliner Rheingold Premiere
7 October 2010October 17th marks the beginning of the Staatsoper Berlin's first Ring cycle at its temporary home, the Schiller Theater in former West Berlin. Guy Cassier's production of Das Rheingold with choreography by Sidi Larbi...
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Metanoia Premiere at the Schiller Theater
28 September 2010On October 3rd, the Schiller Theater opens its doors to opera audiences for the first time as Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle and Staatsopernchor Berlin in a world premiere by Jens Joneleit, Metanoia. The opera was to have been...
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All-Boulez Program with the Staatskapelle Berlin
16 SeptemberThe opening concerts of the Staatskapelle Berlin's 2010/2011 season are anything but conventional: Barenboim will conduct a full program consisting entirely of the works of his long-time friend and colleague Pierre...
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Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival
8 September 2010This Saturday, September 11th, Barenboim will perform in the final concert of the Jerusalem Festival, which is directed by his wife, pianist Elena Bashkirova. The program includes two works by Pierre Boulez, Beethoven's Ghost...
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La Scala in Buenos Aires
27 August 2010This weekend, the chorus and orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala will join Barenboim in Buenos Aires for two performances of Verdi's Aida and one performance of Verdi's Requiem. After an exhausting, musically diverse week and...
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60th Performance Anniversarz
18 August 2010On August 19th, 1950, Daniel Barenboim gave his first piano recital in his hometown, Buenos Aires, at the age of seven. On the same date sixty years later, he will perform Beethoven's Third and Fourth Symphonies in...
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West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Tour underway in South America
9 August 2010Yesterday, Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performed the first concert of a two-and-a-half week South American tour that began in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and will end with a full week in...
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Opening Speech and Concert of the Salzburg Festival
21 July 2010Barenboim will deliver the opening speech of the Salzburg Festival this year on July 26th. Previous opening speakers have included George Steiner, Václav Havel, Christoph Ransmayr, and most recently Daniel Kehlmann in 2009. On...
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West-Eastern Divan Workshop in Pilas
14 July 2010This year’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra workshop begins on July 21st in Pilas, Spain, where the orchestra has been based since 2002. The orchestra will undertake an ambitious program that includes all nine Beethoven Symphonies,...
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Madrid and Granada
1 July 2010On July 6th and 7th, Barenboim will perform two Bruckner symphonies with the Staatskapelle Berlin in Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional, as well as Chopin’s First Piano Concerto. His homage to Chopin continues on July 9th at the Granada...
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Chopin in Randers and Essen
24 June 2010On June 29th, Barenboim continues his celebration of the Chopin year, performing both piano concerti with Andris Nelsons and the Staatskapelle Berlin in the Vaerket cultural center in Randers, Denmark. The same program, which...
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Beethoven/Bruckner Cycle
12 June 2010From June 20th to 27th, Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin undertake a Bruckner/Beethoven odyssey, performing the final six Bruckner Symphonies, all five Beethoven piano concerti and the violin concerto in Berlin’s...
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Barenboim on Che Tempo Che Fa
8 June 2010On May 30th, Barenboim appeared on the popular Italian talk show "Che Tempo Che Fa," hosted by Fabio Fazio, to talk about and perform Chopin. Other guests on the program included pianist Maurizio Pollini and...
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Staatsoper for All
3 June 2010On Sunday, June 6th, Barenboim will conduct Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony with the Staatskapelle Berlin on an outdoor stage on Bebelplatz, adjacent to the Staatsoper. The free concert is part of the season's closing...
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Schumann Anniversary
1 June 2010In celebration of Schumann's 200th birthday, Barenboim will perform a special concert with the Staatskapelle Berlin in the Staatsoper. Young German cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, who was coincidentally born in Zwickau next to...
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Chopin Anniversary Continued
23 May 2010On May 24th and 25th, Daniel Barenboim will continue his homage to Chopin with a recital in the Teatro Comunale in Florence and a performance of both Chopin piano concertos with Zubin Mehta and the Maggio Fiorentino Orchestra. On...
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Strike in Milan
11 May 2010On Thursday, May 13th, Daniel Barenboim was to have conducted the premiere of Das Rheingold at the Teatro alla Scala. Over the past few weeks, however, tension between the musicians' and stage hands' unions and the...
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Open Rehearsals in Milan
6 May 2010The Italian government's proposed opera budget cuts, which will have detrimental effects on the entire country's cultural life, has prompted musicians, stage hands, and other theater employees of Italy's fourteen subsidized...
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The Europe Concert
24 April 2010This year, the Berlin Philharmonic's annual Europe Concert will be led by Daniel Barenboim in Oxford University's Sheldonian Theatre. The May 1st concert features the young American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who will be...
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Simon Boccanegra in Milan
9 April 2010This week, Barenboim is rehearsing with the cast of Simon Boccanegra (which includes Placido Domingo) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan for its opening there on April 16th. The Federico Tiezzi staging is a co-production with the...
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Festtage 2010
25 March 2010The annual Easter Festtage are set to begin on Friday, March 26th with a long-awaited comeback by tenor Rolando Villazon, who recently returned to the stage after an unavoidable hiatus. Villazón sings in Achim Freyer's production...
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Chamber Music Matinee Cancelled
18 March 2010Daniel Barenboim is forced to cancel the matinee concert on Sunday, March 21st, due to a slight case of tendinitis which requires him to desist from playing the piano for a few days. Tickets will be refunded or can be exchanged...
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Schumann for Breakfast; Schubert, Beethoven, and Rands for Dinner
7 March 2010The Daniel Barenboim Matinee cycle at the German State Opera continues this Sunday, March 14th, with an homage to Robert Schumann on his 200th birthday. Barenboim will perform the Fantasiestücke for Clarinet and Piano, the Three...
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Barenboim will replace Levine on March 3rd and 6th
26 February 2010James Levine, who was to lead the Staatskapelle Berlin in performances of Mahler's Third Symphony on March 3rd and 6th and perform a piano duo recital with Barenboim on March 5th, was forced to postpone his appearances due to...
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Deutscher Kulturpreis/ German Cultural Award
15 February 2010Daniel Barenboim was chosen to receive the German Cultural Award in 2009, and it will be ceremoniously presented to him on February 19th in Munich under the auspices of Chancellor Merkel. The Stiftung Kulturförderung, the...
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Nexus Lecture in Tilburg, Netherlands
10 February 2010On Saturday, February 13th, Daniel Barenboim will take a short break from his Chopin recital tour to deliver the annual Nexus Lecture, an event hosted by the Nexus Instituut and held at Tilburg University. The lecture series was...
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Chopin at 200
8 February 2010On March 1st, 1810, Frederic Chopin was born near Warsaw; this Thursday, Daniel Barenboim begins an extensive European tour in celebration of the composer's 200th birthday. He will alternate between two different programs in...
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Beethoven and Schönberg in London and Paris
26 January 2010On January 29th, Barenboim begins a cycle of Schönberg orchestral works and Beethoven piano concertos with the Staatskapelle Berlin. The tour includes four performances in London's Royal Festival Hall, one in Birmingham, and...
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A Schönberg Celebration and a Lieder Matinée
21 January 2010After a tour to New York with some unusual repertoire for the Vienna Philharmonic which included Schönberg, Webern, and Boulez, Daniel Barenboim returns to his own Staatskapelle Berlin this weekend to conduct an all-Schönberg...
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With the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna and New York
6 January 2010This week, Daniel Barenboim is rehearsing with the Vienna Philharmonic for concerts largely based around works by Beethoven and Schönberg, with additional works by Pierre Boulez, Webern, Mahler, and Wagner. The programs include...
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West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Doha
1 January 2010On Tuesday, January 5th, Daniel Barenboim will take the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra on tour to Doha, Qatar, for the first time. The concert in the Qatar National Theatre presents a combination of chamber music and orchestral...
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