Deutsche Grammophon’s STAGE+ Celebrates a Summer season of Classical Music

Deutsche Grammophon’s classical music streaming service STAGE+ usually delivers the world’s most interesting performances to audiences worldwide. Yearly it presents over 50 livestreams from the world’s most famed festivals, live performance halls, and opera homes. The platform has an unlimited archive of historic performances in addition to unique interviews, documentaries, and music movies that includes the label’s artists resembling Lang Lang, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Víkingur Ólafsson, Hilary Hahn, Daniel Hope, Andris Nelsons, and extra.

STAGE+ is presently providing a Summer season Particular Provide for these interested in classical music or the service. Simply £1/1€ provides you two months of limitless entry to the platform, together with all livestreams. This supply is legitimate till August 16, 2024 and full particulars can be found right here. STAGE+ might be skilled on any appropriate system—TV, laptop, smartphone or pill—at house or on the go in offline mode.

Three of Europe’s largest classical summer time festivals, Bayreuth, Salzburg and Verbier, are presently highlighted on STAGE+.

Bayreuth Competition

Based in 1876 by composer Richard Wagner, the Bayreuth Competition yearly performs the German composer’s ten “mature” operas over the course of a month within the Festspielhaus designed by the composer himself. This 12 months, STAGE+ livestreamed the opening evening of Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s new manufacturing of Tristan und Isolde. Performed by Semyon Bychkov, the opera’s forged options Andreas Schager and Camilla Nylund within the title roles.

STAGE+ hosts a complete assortment Bayreuth productions together with over 30 full-length stagings like Barrie Kosky’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2017), Tobias Kratzer’s Tannhäuser (2019), Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Der fliegende Holländer (2021).

Salzburg Competition

Established in 1920, Salzburg Competition is held for 5 weeks each summer time within the birthplace of Mozart. STAGE+ might be streaming three stay concert events from this 12 months’s pageant, all that includes the Wiener Philharmoniker. August 11 presents Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, performed by Andris Nelsons. Then on August 23, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts Krzysztof Warlikowski’s new manufacturing of Mieczysław Weinberg’s ultimate opera, The Fool, its libretto primarily based on the traditional novel by Dostoevsky. The next day presents Les Contes d’Hoffmann, directed by Mariame Clément, performed by Offenbach specialist Marc Minkowski, and starring tenor Benjamin Bernheim within the title position.

The Salzburg archive on STAGE+ options audio and video recordings of solo recitals, orchestral concert events, operas, and extra. Current additions embrace a 2015 Tchaikovsky and Brahms programme from Anne-Sophie Mutter and Riccardo Muti, and Andris Nelsons’ interpretation of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony from the 2022 Competition.

Verbier Competition

Since its institution 30 years in the past, the Verbier Competition within the Swiss Alps has gained world renown whereas growing a brand new technology of classical musicians.

This 12 months, STAGE+ will livestream a July 29 recital of French and Polish music for violin and piano given by Bomsori and Julien Quentin. Three different concert events from the 2024 pageant can be found to view together with Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Verbier Competition Orchestra on this 12 months’s opening live performance, a efficiency of Mahler’s Third Symphony, with mezzo-soprano soloist Magdalena Kožená. Additionally streaming are solo piano recitals from the winner of the 2022 Van Cliburn Competitors, Yunchan Lim (works by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky), and from latest Deutsche Grammophon signing Nobuyuki Tsujii (music by Bach, Liszt, Ravel and Kapustin).

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