Vorbericht: "Ball im Savoy" am Staatstheater ...

1917 reist Richard Strauss mit dem Bariton Franz Steiner für Liederabende nach Skandinavien. Am 23. Februar begegnet er in Oslo dem Maler Edvard Munch. Als er seine Bilder sieht, erkennt er: Der Mann ist genial. 

Was tun gegen den Klimawandel? Musikerinnen und Musiker des Mainfrankentheaters schließen sich dem "Orchester des Wandels" an und versteigern Kammerkonzerte für den guten Zweck. Orchestervorstand Matthias Steinkrauß erklärt im Gespräch die Idee dahinter. 

Synopsis Oh, to have been in Vienna on today’s date in 1785! Wolfgang Mozart had just finished a new piano concerto a week earlier and quite likely performed it himself for the first time as an intermission feature at a performance of the oratorio Ester, by Karl Ditters von Ditte ...  Show more

It became known as the ‘Skandalkonzert’: an evening of expressionist, experimental pieces at Vienna’s Great Hall of the Musikverein on March 31, 1913, which so disturbed the audience that rioting and slapping ensued, followed by a lawsuit.  In time, it established the reputations ...  Show more

Synopsis Back in Bach’s day, there were churchmen aghast at the thought that composers were trying to sneak flashy opera music into Sunday services. Church music was meant to be simple, austere, and, well , not “operatic.” So what would they have made of the three “church parable ...  Show more

Synopsis This lush, late-Romantic score, composed in 1904, had to wait until 1962 for its premiere performance, when, on today's date that year, the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Eugene Ormandy performed it in Seattle during an international festival devoted to its composer, ...  Show more