Staatsoper & Deutsche Oper Berlin 2012 / 2013
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Staatsoper & Deutsche Oper Berlin 2012 / 2013

New York Feuilleton Apr 14, 2012 • No Comments
Last week, both the Deutsche Oper and the Staatsoper posted their 2012/2013 seasons online. I must admit that I’m a little disappointed. Last month, the Komische Oper announced an exciting and ambitious season, their first under the artistic directorship of incoming intendant Barrie Kosky. The Staatsoper, which is still in...
Komische Oper 2012-2013 Season Announced
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Komische Oper 2012-2013 Season Announced

New York Feuilleton Mar 7, 2012 • 1 Comment
The Komische Oper Berlin announced the full line-up of it’s 2012-2013 season earlier today. Incoming intendant Barri Kosky has some mighty grand plans for the house in his inaugural season, which includes 12 new productions and 3 world premieres. The most impressive single offering is arguably the season opener on...
Berlin Film Fest Warms Up
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Berlin Film Fest Warms Up

New York Feuilleton Feb 24, 2012 • Comments Closed
As the ice thawed in the winter wonderland that is Berlin during festival time, the competition heated up as the Berlinale entered its second week. Nearing the home stretch, the festival unveiled some of its the mostly eagerly awaited, and intriguing, films. Chief among these was an ambitious, if somewhat...
Viva Italia! Tavianis Take Home Berlin Gold
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Viva Italia! Tavianis Take Home Berlin Gold

New York Feuilleton Feb 19, 2012 • 1 Comment
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die) has become the first Italian film in over two decades to carry the Golden Bear, top prize of the Berlin Film Festival. In last night’s award ceremony, the eight-member international jury, headed by British-director Mike Leigh and featuring actors Jake...
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Cannes Festival Program Announced!

New York Feuilleton Apr 20, 2012 • No Comments
The program of the 2012 Cannes Féstival de Film was announced yesterday, ending months of speculation among critics and enthusiasts about what films would make the cut for the world’s most famous film festival. This year’s installment is bookended by Wes Anderson’s much-hyped Moonrise Kingdom, a summer camp romance that looks like a change of...
Werner Herzog Goes Back to Death Row
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Werner Herzog Goes Back to Death Row

New York Feuilleton Apr 10, 2012 • No Comments
“Very rarely I dream and if I dream, it’s banalities. Two and a half years ago I dreamed I had a sandwich for lunch,” explained Werner Herzog. The German director was addressing a standing-room-only crowd in February at the Berlin Film Festival, where his new documentary series On Death Row had its premiere. Herzog, 69, wore a...
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Berlin Opera in Review: Smetana, Verdi, Bizet & Jost

New York Feuilleton Mar 30, 2012 • 2 Comments
Opera in Berlin this season speaks with a Czech accent. After mounting the Berlin premiere of Patrice Chéreau’s much-traveled From the House of the Dead, the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater presented its first all-new production of the 2011–12 season in late November, a superlative Bartered Bride from Hungarian director Balázs Kovalik (seen Nov. 22). (Other Czech works on...
Classical Music / Opera

Orpheus in der Unterwelt – Staatsoper im Schiller Theater

New York Feuilleton Mar 30, 2012 • 1 Comment
From Operanews.com Orphée aux Enfers BERLIN Staatsoper Unter den Linden 12/16/11 Novak and Kurt in Orphée aux Enfers in Berlin © Matthias Baus 2012 The Staatsoper Unter den Linden bid farewell to 2011 with a cleverly staged yet musically disappointing production of Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers, starring an array of middle-tier German celebrities (seen Dec. 16). A non-native...
Watch "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness" Online!
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Watch “Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness” Online!

New York Feuilleton Mar 2, 2012 • Comments Closed
Dear Readers, It has recently come to our attention that some kind soul has uploaded one of the most obscure cult films of all-times, the virtually extinct film, “Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness” to Veoh. Anthony Newly’s X-rated song-and-dance romp is a dizzying mix of Fellini, Borscht Belt and...
Berlinale Half-Time Report - Insurrection and Abduction
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Berlinale Half-Time Report – Insurrection and Abduction

New York Feuilleton Feb 15, 2012 • 1 Comment
A.J. GOLDMANN BERLIN Halfway through the 62nd installment of the Berlin Film Festival, no single film has emerged to carry the fest’s top prizes. The international jury, this year’s headed by British director Mike Leigh, will have a difficult time distributing the Gold and Silver bears if the competition fare remains this lackluster. Benoît Jacquot’s...
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Calixto Bieito Back in Berlin

New York Feuilleton Jan 30, 2012 • 1 Comment
Calixto Bieito, opera’s king of gore, returned to Berlin last night with a sex and violence drenched production of Carl Maria von Weber’s Romantic opera “Der Freischütz” (“The Sharp Shooter” )at the Komische Oper Berlin. The Catalan director, whose recent Stuttgart “Parsifal,” depicted the knights of the grail as members of a cannibalistic cult, is...

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