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- Mar 16, 2012
Mozart’s presumably best-known opera, The Magic Flute, opens the series of new opera productions of the 2012 Salzburg Festival. Nikolaus Harnoncourt will lead the Mozart production on historic instruments.
Alexander Pereira, director of the Salzburg Festival, says: “It is not only a first for Salzburg, but also for Nikolaus Harnoncourt to perform this work in this sound-world in Salzburg, together with Concentus Musicus, bringing his entire life’s experience to bear on this production, and I am infinitely grateful to him for this gift,” Pereira expressed his delight.
- Mar 1, 2012
For the first time, the Cologne College of Music and Dance has awarded an honorary doctorate to an outstanding artist. With Nikolaus Harnoncourt they have honoured an artist who represents ideally the broad educational programme of a music college with the wide range of his own musical, scholarly and teaching activities.
On 10th June 2011, Harnoncourt publicly rehearsed and explained to the audience works by Muffat, Biber and others together with the ensemble of the Cologne college's Early Music Institute. The official doctorate ceremony was held afterwards in the chamber music room.
- Mar 1, 2012
Dance as an expression of great social and musical change: Nikolaus Harnoncourt traces the rise of the waltz which accompanied the social revolutions of the 19th century and shows how its origins can be found in the dances of Mozart. In doing so, he introduces us to a radically new sound world far removed from the notions of waltz as easy entertainment - played on original instruments, among them ten different types of trumpet and five different kinds of clarinet, these works sparkle with a many-faceted and finely nuanced diversity of sound.
Tour dates
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Jun
09
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Musikverein Vienna / Austria | |
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Jun
10
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Musikverein Vienna / Austria | |
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Jul
06
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styriarte Stainz / Austria | |
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Jul
07
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styriarte Stainz / Austria |
