Happy 85th birthday Cristóbal Halffter!
Find an interview with the composer in our digital magazine MusikSalon.
Ramón Tebar will conduct tonight’s world première of the reduced version of Cristóbal Halffter’s Elegías a la muerte de tres poetas españoles at the Auditorio Nacional de Música. Follow-up performances of the orchestral work are scheduled for on 25 and 26 October.
Cristóbal Halffter: Elegías a la muerte de tres poetas españoles
for orchestra, reduced version | 30'
24.10.2014, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid; Orquesta Nacionales de España, cond. Ramón Tebar
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Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier of france musique has recently presented a one hour long portrait on Cristóbal Halffter.
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Yesterday, 29 June, Cristóbal Halffter received the Kieler Kulturpreis 2014 at the town hall in Kiel. The Kiel Opera House and the composer can look back on a long and highly successful collaboration: two of Halffter’s three operas (Schachnovelle and Lázaro) were commissioned by the Opera House, and his Don Quijote celebrated its first German performance there.
Congratulations!
Happy Birthday and congratulations on receiving the Kieler Kulturpreis 2014!
The Kiel Opera House and Cristóbal Halffter can look back on a long and highly successful collaboration: two of Halffter’s three operas (Schachnovelle and Lázaro) were commissioned by the Opera House, and his Don Quijote celebrated its first German performance there. The award ceremony will take place on 29 June.
Read more on the website of the Kiel Opera House [German].
Cristóbal Halffter on Schachnovelle:
The world première of Cristóbal
Halffter’s latest opera Schachnovelle,
an opera in one act based on Stefan Zweig’s novella [The Royal Game], at the Kiel Opera House on 18 May 2013 was a resounding
success, as exemplified by the audience’s applause and various positive reviews
from Deutschlandfunk, Merker and the nmz (which makes an interesting comparison
of Halffter’s Schachnovelle and Berg’s
Lulu). Wolfgang Haendeler’s excellent
libretto should also be highlighted at this point, especially when one
considers the original text’s lack of spoken dialogue.
Cristóbal Halffter at the world première of Schachnovelle:
Today, the Spanish première of Cristóbal Halffter’s In tempore belli, Schachnovelle's interlude, takes place at the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Here is an interview with Cristóbal Halffter on his upcoming opera Schachnovelle:
In tempore belli (2012)
for orchestra
Spanish première, 26/4/2013, Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria
Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, cond. Georg Fritzsch
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Happy Birthday Cristóbal Halffter!
Cristóbal Halffter was in Vienna this week to talk about his forthcoming opera Die Schachnovelle (The Chess Story).
Pictured are Halffter and the opera’s librettist, Wolfgang Haendeler.
Die Schachnovelle, based on Stefan Zweig’s novel of the same name, opens at the Kiel Opera in May 2013.