WAGNER'S LOHENGRIN OPENS LA SCALA SEASON
On December 7, Teatro alla Scala Music Director Daniel Barenboim opens the Milan house’s 2012-2013 season with a new production of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin. This new staging by Claus Guth boasts a stellar cast that includes...
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La musica è un tutto by Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim has published his latest book, La musica è un tutto: Etica ed estetica (Music as a Whole: Ethics and Aesthetics), reflections on making, reading, playing and listening to music: music that connects people,...
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Carter premiere, piano concerti, and leading conductors celebrate Daniel Barenboim’s 70th birthday
Daniel Barenboim will celebrate his 70th birthday with a series of concerts that include the Filarmonica della Scala, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Wiener Philharmoniker, and musical colleagues from throughout his career. The...
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Siegfried at the Teatro alla Scala
Daniel Barenboim continues his season-long celebration of Wagner's bicentennary, conducting Siegfried at the Teatro alla Scala through November 18. Wagner figures prominently in the maestro's Milan performances. At...
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Complete Beethoven for All Recordings Available from October 15
Beginning October 15, Beethoven for All – Daniel Barenboim's recording of complete cycles of the composer's symphonies with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the piano concertos with the Staatskapelle Berlin, and the...
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Daniel Barenboim honored with ECHO Klassik Lifetime Achievement Award
Daniel Barenboim has been honored with the ECHO Klassik Lifetime Achievement Award, bestowed by the German Recording Academy, the cultural body of the Federal Music Industry Association.
"Daniel Barenboim is without a...
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BARENBOIM BEGINS SEASON-LONG CELEBRATION OF WAGNER'S BICENTENNIAL WITH PERFORMANCES AT STAATSOPER BERLIN, TEATRO ALLA SCALA
This October, Daniel Barenboim will conduct Wagner's Die Walküre and Siegfried at the Staatsoper Berlin, kicking off a season-long celebration of the master opera composer's bicentennary at the German house. On October 3, 6, and...
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Jonas Kaufmann joins Barenboim for Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
German tenor Jonas Kaufmann will join Daniel Barenboim at Berlin’s Philharmonie on September 30 for a performance of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. The classic song cycle depicts the unrequited love of a wandering miller, with...
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Staatskapelle Berlin Music Director opens 2012 – 2013 with Bruch, Carter, Bruckner
On September 16 and 18, Music Director Daniel Barenboim leads Staatskapelle Berlin in its season opening concerts at the Philharmonie Berlin. Now in his twentieth year as head of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and its orchestra,...
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Barenboim leads the Teatro alla Scala on tour in Europe & Russia
This month, house Music Director Daniel Barenboim takes the Teatro alla Scala on tour across Europe and to Moscow for performances at the historic Bolshoi Theatre.
The maestro leads the Filarmonica e Coro della Scala and a...
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Barenboim explores Schubert’s piano works in Salzburg and Dubrovnik
This week Daniel Barenboim explores the music of Franz Schubert in recitals at the Salzburg Festival and the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. The maestro returns to Salzburg for three all-Schubert programs. On August 15, he performs...
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Daniel Barenboim & West-Eastern Divan Orchestra embark on “Beethoven for All” Summer Tour
Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – the much-lauded ensemble of young Arab and Israeli musicians that Barenboim co-founded in 1999 with the late Palestinian-born literary scholar Edward...
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West-Eastern Divan Orchestra to Honor Pope’s Saint Day with Private Concert
At the personal invitation of Pope Benedict XVI, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will give a private concert before the Holy Father on July 11 to mark the Pontiff’s Saint Day. The concert will take place in...
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Staatskapelle Berlin summer concerts
Currently conducting Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper Berlin’s Schiller Theater through July 6, Daniel Barenboim will lead the Staatskapelle Berlin in two Berlin concerts that showcase the music of Tchaikovsky and Brahms, performed...
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Barenboim conducts Don Giovanni at Staatsoper Berlin beginning June 24
From June 24 to July 6, Daniel Barenboim conducts five sold-out performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper Berlin's Schiller Theater in a production by Claus Guth. Christopher Maltman portrays the...
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Beethoven for All
"Beethoven's music is universal... Everywhere in the world - it speaks to all people." - Daniel Barenboim
Beginning this month, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra release Beethoven for...
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Staatskapelle tour to include Bruckner symphony cycle and Musikverein residency
Beginning June 3, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin explore the music of Bruckner and Mozart on tour in Germany and Austria, including a ten-day residency at Vienna's Musikverein. They begin their performances with...
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Simon Boccanegra, starring Plácido Domingo, at Staatsoper Berlin
Beginning May 26, Daniel Barenboim leads three performances of Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, starring the legendary Plácido Domingo in the title role. Verdi's opera follows the life of Simon Boccanegra, an imperfect yet...
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Schoenberg and Debussy comprise Barenboim's Vienna Philharmonic concerts
As Daniel Barenboim performs Mozart’s music with the Vienna Philharmonic on tour and at home in the Austrian capital, the maestro looks ahead to two performances with the Philharmonic that juxtapose Claude Debussy’s music...
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Pope Benedict XVI to attend concert at the Teatro alla Scala
On June 1 Daniel Barenboim will conduct Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope is known for his fondness of music, and this performance will be...
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Barenboim conducts Mozart with Vienna Philharmonic
Beginning May 13, Daniel Barenboim leads the Vienna Philharmonic in concerts that explore the music of Mozart. He begins this orchestral series with a program of Mozart’s last three symphonies, K543, K550, and K551 in Vienna (May...
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Katara Festival for Music and Dialogue cancelled - “Current political developments across the Arab region” cited as reason
Berlin, April 25, 2012 – Katara Cultural Village, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra's partner in the organization of the “Festival for Music and Dialogue” in Doha, announced today that much to their regret they have decided to...
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Anna Netrebko & Daniel Barenboim to perform Russian art songs at Vienna's Musikverein
On May 6, Daniel Barenboim and Russian soprano Anna Netrebko take the stage of Vienna's Musikverein for a sold-out recital of works by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Their program features less-explored repertoire by the two...
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Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin tour London & Paris
This April, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin travel to London and Paris for a concert tour that includes Bruckner's last three symphonies as well as two Mozart concerti, featuring the maestro as conductor and...
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Barenboim's FESTTAGE 2012 performances showcase roles as conductor and pianist
As part of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's FESTTAGE 2012, Daniel Barenboim leads a series of performances in Berlin that showcase his musical life as both a conductor and a pianist. On April 5, Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle...
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Barenboim conducts Lulu at Staatsoper Berlin
From March 31 to April 14, Daniel Barenboim leads performances of Alban Berg's Lulu as part of the Staatsoper Berlin's FESTTAGE 2012. Following the acclaimed production of Wozzeck by Andrea Breth, the German director returns to...
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New release: Bruckner's 7th Symphony with the Staatskapelle Berlin
This March sees the international release of Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin's latest album, a live recording at the Philharmonie Berlin of Bruckner's 7th Symphony. Barenboim's latest disc captures a gripping...
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This month, three Wagner Operas at the Staatsoper Berlin
Over the course of three weeks, Daniel Barenboim leads performances of three Wagner operas at the Staatsoper Berlin: Tristan und Isolde (March 10, 18, 25), Das Rheingold (March 30), and Die...
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Brahms, Berg, and Strauss feature in Barenboim’s Staatskapelle Berlin concerts March 6 & 7
Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will perform the music of Brahms, Berg, and Strauss on March 6 at Berlin’s Philharmonie and on March 7 at Berlin’s Konzerthaus. The Austro-German program opens with Brahms’s Piano...
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Barenboim, Anna Netrebko, and Staatskapelle Berlin to give Staatsoper benefit concert at Berlin's Philharmonie
On Wednesday February 29, Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in a special benefit concert that supports the major renovation of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden theater. This exceptional musical event will take...
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Barenboim, Anna Netrebko, and Staatskapelle Berlin to give Staatsoper benefit concert at Berlin's Philharmonie (copy 1)
On Wednesday February 29, Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in a special benefit concert that supports the major renovation of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden theater. This exceptional musical event will take...
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Barenboim to give Schubert recital at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater February 19
On February 19, Daniel Barenboim gives a matinee piano recital dedicated to the piano music of Franz Schubert at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater. Barenboim will perform the Sonata in G Major D 894 op. 78 and the Sonata in C...
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This February, Barenboim leads Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Staatsoper Berlin
After touring with both the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Filarmonica della Scala in January and early February, Daniel Barenboim returns to the Staatsoper Berlin, where he has served as General Music Director since 1992....
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Vienna Philharmonic and Barenboim to perform together at Salzburg’s annual Mozart Week
On February 4, Daniel Barenboim joins the Vienna Philharmonic for anexceptional concert in Salzburg at the Grosses Festspielhaus. The performance is part of the annual Salzburg Mozart Week presented by the International Mozarteum...
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West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Barenboim launch 2012 “Beethoven for All” tour in Munich this July
On July 10, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra make their Munich debut as they perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” and Symphony No. 7 at Munich’s Philharmonie. The Bavarian capital is the first stop...
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Barenboim leads Filarmonica della Scala in concerts in Paris, Frankfurt, and Milan this January
Daniel Barenboim, who recently began his tenure as Music Director of the Teatro alla Scala, leads the Filarmonica della Scala in concerts highlighting the music of Maurice Ravel this January both at home in Milan and on tour in...
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