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October 5, 2009

City of Dreams – Berg's Wozzeck

City of Dreams – Berg's Wozzeck
Esa-Pekka Salonen and his Philharmonia Orchestra end their nine-month series, City of Dreams (Vienna 1900-1935) with this performance of Berg’s first opera, Wozzeck at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Built in 1913 for impresario Gabriel Astruc by Perralt, the Théâtre... [Read more]
July 23, 2009

Klara Festival

Klara Festival
The perception of Brussels as merely being an avant-garde city is wrong. Maybe it’s the case in terms of art and fashion, but there is a booming classical music scene. Indeed, the appetite for classical music is abundant – in London there is the Proms: but these are attended... [Read more]