featuring Lan Shui and Charlotte Hellekant O Mensch! Gib acht! Was spricht die tiefe Mitternacht? Mahler, oh Mahler. His symphonies really are worlds, are they not? Tonight we got to hear, down in Taichung (台中) the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra’s … Continue reading NTSO’s 關於世界: Mahler 3
featuring: Annapaola Leso Samuel Déniz Falcón David Pallant Director/Choreographer: 孫尚綺 (Sun Shang-chi) Music Director and Conductor: Manuel Nawri Ensemble KNM Berlin (Violin soloist: Theodor Flindell) Taipei Chamber Singers …and more. I’ve been mesmerized by Glass’s Einstein on the Beach now for some … Continue reading Glass’s The Photographer
Featuring: Taiwan’s 國家交響樂團 (NSO) Wotan- Jukka Rasilainen Fricka- Jamie Barton Hunding- Andrea Silvestrelli Sieglinde- Anja Kampe Siegmund- Simon O’Neill Brünnhilde- Jennifer Wilson (and more) Carlus Padrissa, Esteban Muñoz, Roland Olbeter, Chu Uroz, and the crew of La Fura dels Baus … Continue reading NSO’s Die Walküre
featuring Yu-Chien Benny Tseng (曾宇謙), violin After a very hot day in Taipei and a train ride back down to the new(ish) opera house, which I haven’t visited for almost exactly four months, I find myself yet again in one of … Continue reading Esa-Pekka Salonen & Philharmonia Orchestra
It could hardly have been a more music-filled weekend, and it ended on a note of hope, of triumph, of absolute triumph and sublime beauty. In case you missed it, I also attended concerts on Friday and Saturday, the former … Continue reading TSO’s Beethoven 9
featuring tenor Stephen Gould and mezzo soprano Dana Beth Miller under Okko Kamu The list of Mahler symphonies left to see live is narrowing, and tonight’s program showcased the two (one and a half? quarter?) pieces of Mahler’s that I’m … Continue reading NTSO: Kamu’s Mahler
Fugue for Thought 