Hugo Hamelin a une idée visionnaire, celle de créer une société de vengeance à la carte. Il doit alors interagir avec un marchand d'art cynique, une jeune fausse ingénue, un orphelin jeté en pâture aux vautours, un guerrier massaï et médecin, ainsi que la peintre expressionniste Irma Stern. Alors que la promesse de gain rendait le projet prometteur, sa concrétisation est plus délicate à gérer. …
Jonas Kaufmann is a German tenor who made his solo album debut in 2008 after establishing himself as an international opera superstar. Born on July 10, 1969, in Munich, Germany, he studied locally at the Musikhochschule and made his major performance debut nationally in Saarbrücken in 1994. In later years he would perform in some of the world's most prestigious theaters, including Covent Garden (London), Bastille Opera (Paris), La Scala (Milan), and Metropolitan Opera (New York).
Earlier this summer, Jonas Kaufmann, The world s greatest tenor (The Telegraph), performed his most popular Italian repertoire live at Waldbühne, Berlin s outdoor amphitheater. The smash-success live concert was recorded for Kaufmann s new album, An Italian Evening. Kaufmann brought-the-house-down with a succession of hits from his extremely popular Dolce Vita album as well as exciting arias and duets (with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili) from the Italian opera repertoire including Volare, Non ti scordar di me and Nessun Dorma.
Joseph Haydn once remarked: ‘I was not a magician on any instrument, but I knew the power and effect of all of them.’ This knowledge he used to good effect in his cello concertos, composed some twenty years apart for two different cellists in ‘his’ orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy. Both works are firmly established in the concert repertoire, but this has not always been the case.
L'histoire des 47 rônins, ces samouraïs qui durent se sacrifier au début du XVIIIe siècle par respect pour la loi shogunale, a été reprise et embellie par l'imagination populaire. G. Soulié de Morant en proposait, en 1927, une version vivante et facile à lire, ici accompagnée de reproductions d'estampes du XIXe siècle. …
When the first concert of the series founded by the composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann (later designated as musica viva) took place at Munich's Prince Regent's Theatre on 7 October 1945, it marked the birth of an important new cultural event in post-war Germany. Up to the present day, this oldest concert series for New Music still brings together the world's most important artists - conductors and interpreters alike - in the field of new and the newest music, also continuing to set new standards for the interpretation of new classical music with the outstanding Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.