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Der New Yorker MET-Chef Peter Gelb über Oper im Kino und die Notwendigkeit neuer Zugänge.
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Der Opernstar singt wieder am Ring und bereitet einen Fachwechsel vor.
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Two years after New York City Opera shut down, two restructuring plans have been filed in bankruptcy court. One by Roy Niederhoffer proposes varied programs and smaller venues. The other, by Gene Kaufman, leans toward tried-and-true productions.
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After a difficult year, the opera company affirms its commitment to its core values and central London base.
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Radio orchestras, which are units of state broadcasting companies, are honing their skills and strategy for an era of tight budgets and new technology.
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Luis Aguiar and Joel Waldfogel, the authors of the NBER study, find that, at least in the case of Spotify, streaming brings virtually no financial gain to the industry, but it also prevents losses. When looking the top songs each week and calculating how much rights holders were paid, researchers find that streaming usage increases music-industry revenue thanks to the ability to convert those who were either downloading illegally or not listening to tracks at all. But those gains are pretty much offset by streaming’s displacement of permanent track purchases or downloads.
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Not so long ago, a familiarity with classical music was considered part of cultural literacy. Beethoven was in the kit alongside Shakespeare. When did this change? At what point did art music come to seem – that dread word – “irrelevant”?
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Listening to classical music has amazing benefits such as improved sleep, lower stress levels, and increased brain power. Amazing, indeed!
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The pianist, a specialist in Bach, Beethoven and Schubert, may speak softly, but he has strong opinions about his native Hungary — and about the work of a student.
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You don’t need a PhD or a specific gift in order to appreciate classical music. All you need is ears, and an open mind – things every child already has.
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If classical music does indeed have an image problem, what image ought it adopt? What must classical music now pretend to be?’
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James Jolly went to Milan this summer where Chailly was conducting Puccini’s Turandot in Luciano Berio’s completion (a work that Chailly premiered in 2002) to talk to him about his ambitions for the great Italian opera house and some of the composers whose work is central to the company’s repertoire.
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New research shows that music can relieve stress, lift your mood, boost your health, help you sleep better, take away your pain, and even make you smarter. |
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Anyone who plays music will tell you they think differently, and now even science agrees.
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Putting on headphones to regulate emotions may not always be beneficial.
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Ray Chen, an award-winning young violinist, hopes to make classical music more popular, and his short videos, often humorous, are one of his methods.
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The Polish musician is a composer, vocalist, percussionist and powerful stage presence who is making waves in contemporary music worldwide.
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Marking the 100th anniversary of An Alpine Symphony, take a guided tour through Strauss' evocative music with conductor Semyon Bychkov and author David Hurwitz as trail guides.
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Many young musicians see competing as their best chance for getting a good manager, says Gabriela Montero, a former child prodigy who won third prize in the Chopin Competition in 1995. But she is quick to add that participants must understand that the outcome is never completely fair.
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Plans for venue near St Paul’s slated for poor acoustics, high cost and ‘concrete monster’ design.
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A new music venue in Brooklyn is creating the chamber hall experience for the 21st century.
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RBTH interviews the opera star ahead of fall dates in New York
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Bizet’s famous heroine first appeared in a novella by Prosper Mérimée in 1845. Thirty years later, Bizet adapted the story into an opera that has since become one of the world’s most loved, with the free-spirited Carmen at its heart. 
Maricarmen Husson's curator insight,
20 October 2015, 02:16
140 años de la Opera de Bizet. La famosa heroina de Bizet en su primera aparición en la novela de Prosper Mèrimée en 1845, treinta años después Bizet adaptó la historia dentro de una ópera que se convirtió en una de las óperas más amadas del mundo. Imágenes de Carmen a través de los años.
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From Ligeti to Lupu and Liszt – the pianist on the music and performers that inspire him. |
"Music can be displayed on an iPad with the pianist turning the pages using a Bluetooth pedal." (Neil Hall)