Heinrich Heine News

Luja Classics announces new release of the CD recording Erik Charlston Sings Liederfeaturing Erik Charlston, baritone, accompanied by Virginia Perry Lamb on piano.

Join Archipelago Books and Community Bookstore for a reading of the Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm, selected, edited, and translated by Peter Wortsman, and a conversation about fairy tales and their relevance to contemporary life with Peter Wortsman andNew Yorker staff writer Joan Acocella. The reading will take place tonight, June 6 at 7 p.m. at the Community Bookstore, 143 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Subway: B/Q at Seventh Ave.

Join Archipelago Books and Community Bookstore for a reading of the Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm, selected, edited, and translated by Peter Wortsman, and a conversation about fairy tales and their relevance to contemporary life with Peter Wortsman andNew Yorker staff writer Joan Acocella. The reading will take place on Thursday, June 6 at 7 p.m. at the Community Bookstore, 143 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Subway: B/Q at Seventh Ave.

The Flying Dutchman Overture by Richard Wagner (from the opera, Der fliegende Hollander 1943. Based on Heinrich Heine's retelling of the legend in his 1933 satirical novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski and a stormy sea crossing that Wagner made from Riga to London in July and August 1839).

Anniversaries have always been a useful time to assess and celebrate an artist's life and output. 2011 features many important anniversaries including on October 22nd the 200th anniversary of the birth of pianist, composer, teacher and conductor Franz Liszt.

René Pape, who triumphed earlier this season as Boris Godunov at the Metropolitan Opera, will present the most intimate side of his art when he makes his West Coast recital debut on January 15 at the Los Angeles Opera.

The Flea Theater will present a revival of Peter Handke's Offending the Audience. It will be directed by Jim Simpson featuring a cast of 22 members of The Bats, the resident acting ensemble at The Flea. Performances begin January 21 with opening night scheduled for Thursday, January 31 at 9PM.

There is something wonderful and eminently watchable going on in the basement theater space at the Chopin Theatre-the Signal Ensemble Theatre production of playwright Jon Marans's Old Wicked Songs.

A weekly column on Baltimore, Washington, and Broadway theater.

In the late 1840s, Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, and Heinrich Heine were all, apparently, chums; young men in the prime of their lives, Germans living in Paris, supporting each other's work and helping each other out. From this convenient collision of revolutionary artists and artistic revolutionaries, Jonathan Leaf spins his play The Germans in Paris into a thought-provoking piece of theatre.