the moment I'm in Mönchengladbach, Rheydt to be exact. The whole last week rehearsing with the Dutch Rhenish Symphony Orchestra for your 2nd Symphony concert, which we have played the first concert last night. A great program, with the highlight Berlioz Harold in Italy, with the Shooting Star Nils Mönkemeyer as a violist. Unbelievable what a great sound he conjures from his viola - and that has both me and the Orchestra heaviest impressed! He is also very straightforward and very simple, full of energy. Now we play it three more times - and that's really beautiful: because you can still try it out a lot!
The big night and fog action was then last weekend, where I and the director of Tsar Saltan (which I will conduct the opera in March 2009 at Opera Zuid) flew to London. We both had seen the piece by Rimsky Korsakov, or never heard, and on Saturday night was listed in Sadler's Wells Theatre this magnificent opera by Gergiev's Mariinsky Opera! Sybrand van der Werf is a very energetic and imaginative young director and it was a great opportunity to exchange us this opera, and tell us a bit more familiar. It started with the cappuccino before the flight, went on a bus trip to the center, bookstore visits, a Chicken Burger with Pints of Lager while enjoying a football match and a fish restaurant, Bishins to the actual theater.
And what we saw was magnificent productions of art first degree. Stage design by cardboard, cardboard box of wine glasses, pleasing dance, unintelligible and exuberant costumes, but somehow ... Atmosphere! And what a music! And the "Flight of the Bumble Bee" (coming from the opera!) Sounded excellent! The orchestra was great fun, especially when the "stage smoke" came down, and the 60-year-old bass player tried quite dry this wegzupusten :-).
Freek, a friend from my former student orchestra and now a professor at the London Business School, accompanied us, and told that Sadler's Wells some years ago was almost broke, but that the new director has been able to artistically high-quality events to make additional lure audiences back, making it come back into the black. What a performance! It is one of the largest theater in London, with a capacity of almost 1600!
then went on the night and fog action: it was a cozy pub found out was just a 30-year anniversary celebration. Since we were not too shy to congratulate the pretty young lady (Dutch cheeky), we were naturally a bit of the delicious birthday cake and we have enjoyed themselves immensely ... And as usual the Bell rang at 11, it was a bit later - which came toward us very much because we had booked the flight clock 7.00, and had provided no hotel ... After a short nap at the airport we hare, then rose in the machine that brought us back to Germany.
The greatest highlight of the trip was indeed once musically of Art Just the thought alone makes fear me again ... What had happened? ... On landing, after about 24 hours almost continuously monitored and to have been at a slightly increased sensitivity to all areas in fortissimo sounded through the speakers Ryanair exactly what you need in the early morning, played by a top-class synthesizer synthetic ... namely ... the world-famous ... SECOND-MARCH!! /&%$/&%$
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