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News from the world of classical music: Opera and concert - edited by the magazine www.backstageclassical.com run by Axel Brüggemann.
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30.01.2026 14:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Chen Reiss expresses concern about the growing politicization of culture in a BackstageClassical podcast. She stresses the importance of separating personal political views from artistic responsibility and calls Germany a safe place for Jews. backstageclassical.com/zubin-wir-br...
30.01.2026 09:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Die israelische Sopranistin Chen Reiss äußert sich besorgt über die zunehmende Politisierung der Kultur. Sie hebt Deutschland als sicheren Ort für Juden hervor, kritisiert den Trend zu Konzertabsagen und bittet Zubin Mehta nach Israel zu kommen. backstageclassical.com/zubin-wir-br...
30.01.2026 09:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Leipzig Opera risks insolvency by 2028 after four years of losses. The 2025 deficit may reach €2.3M due to rising energy, staff and material costs, low attendance, and limited reserves. More city funding is unlikely, and subsidies may decline. backstageclassical.com/oper-leipzig...
29.01.2026 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Sebastian Nordmann presents his first Lucerne Festival season under the theme »American Dreams.« He avoids party politics while promoting artistic exchange and democratic values through American music and artists like Gershwin, Reich, Yo-Yo Ma and Amanda Gorman backstageclassical.com/wie-macht-ma...
29.01.2026 08:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Composer Kathrin Denner welcomes the reform in principle but warns the planned GEMA cultural funding changes risk income losses, market-driven bias, weak support for composers, reduced transparency, and long-term structural disadvantages. backstageclassical.com/reform-ja-ab...
28.01.2026 13:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Letter from Brüggi… backstageclassical.com/lieber-phili...
28.01.2026 08:41 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The money from Saudi Arabia isn’t coming in, just as the actual stance isn’t either. backstageclassical.com/lieber-peter...
27.01.2026 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The number of funded positions in German professional orchestras has hardly changed over the past two years. However, hidden behind this statistical stability is a growing problem: hundreds of positions are unfilled. backstageclassical.com/berufsorches...
27.01.2026 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Debate: Lotte Thaler attacks “Regietheater” in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Axel Brüggemann counters that her critique is vague, outdated, and misdiagnoses today’s opera scene. backstageclassical.com/liebe-faz-bi...
27.01.2026 10:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Monday is Newslettertag: backstageclassical.com/oper-vor-dem...
26.01.2026 17:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Leipzig celebrates composer Albert Lortzing, a crowd-pleasing theater man between Biedermeier and revolution. Loved by audiences but ignored by elites, he challenged authority with humorous, socially critical operas. backstageclassical.com/der-untersch...
23.01.2026 17:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Tonhalle Düsseldorf director Michael Becker discuss classical music today: funding cuts, radio orchestras’ role, and Düsseldorf’s upswing with Adam Fischer, rising subscriptions, bold programs, the Tonhalle’s 100th anniversary —and even train delays. backstageclassical.com/wir-muessen-...
22.01.2026 22:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dear Hans Zimmer, … backstageclassical.com/lieber-hans-...
22.01.2026 08:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dear Kai Gniffke, … backstageclassical.com/lieber-kai-g...
21.01.2026 08:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Mannheim Philharmonic canceled a concert with Vadim Repin after objections from Ukraine’s embassy. Repin, linked to Kremlin-funded cultural projects and state honors, was to perform days before the invasion anniversary. Repin remains scheduled in Gstaad. backstageclassical.com/mannheim-str...
20.01.2026 13:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A failed settlement deepens the crisis at Theater Erfurt. Fired director Guy Montavon seeks reinstatement. Ongoing court battles, leadership resignations, disputed compensation and unresolved misconduct allegations leave the theater in turmoil. backstageclassical.com/der-kampf-um...
20.01.2026 08:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Monday is newsletter day, today with thoughts on the radical structural change in classical music, with a look at the touring business in China, but also with two financial bottlenecks. backstageclassical.com/orchestersch...
19.01.2026 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SWR director Kai Gniffke defends planned budget cuts affecting the German Radio Philharmonic, saying public broadcasters face serious financial strain from static fees and rising costs.
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16.01.2026 08:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Eutin Festival faces closure as city politicians withdraw support despite €18m upgrades, rising audiences and profits. Director Antonio Pilavachi is outraged, calling decision a disaster. backstageclassical.com/die-eutiner-...
15.01.2026 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Neuköllner Oper thrives on risk: quirky, accessible, and musically adventurous. Under new director Rainer Simon it rejects the canon with a wink, blends opera, pop and politics, and champions new voices. backstageclassical.com/das-haus-der...
15.01.2026 12:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dear MDR, …. backstageclassical.com/lieber-mdr/
15.01.2026 08:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Dear Asmik Grigorian, … backstageclassical.com/liebe-asmik-...
14.01.2026 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bloß nicht!
13.01.2026 20:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0China increasingly positions itself as the world’s cultural crossroads. While global powers drift apart, Beijing and Shanghai host ensembles from all ideological fronts — from Gergiev’s Mariinsky Orchestra to Berlin and Vienna’s Philharmonic tours. backstageclassical.com/das-reich-de...
13.01.2026 18:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dear German shoolsystem, … backstageclassical.com/liebe-deutsc...
13.01.2026 08:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today’s newsletter kicks off with a look ahead at what will be important in the new year, a plea for more depth, new classical protagonists in new media, and a whole lot of world politics in art! backstageclassical.com/donald-yanni...
12.01.2026 11:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump’s second term saw aggressive power grabs: talk of seizing Venezuela’s president, plans to annex Greenland, and turning Washington’s Kennedy Center into a partisan, patriotic propaganda venue. backstageclassical.com/venezuela-gr...
11.01.2026 12:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Konrad and Louis are supposed to shake up ARD-Klassik and make viewers cringe with secondhand embarrassment. Meanwhile, Opera Bert shows that classical music can be just as meaningful as painting fingernails. backstageclassical.com/wie-konrad-u...
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