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Barenboim Met debut today with Tristan

Daniel Barenboim is making his Metropolitan Opera debut today with Tristan und Isolde. Barenboim's responsibilities in Chicago, Bayreuth, and Berlin has made a Metropolitan debut impossible until now. The cast includes Katarina Dalayman as Isolde, Michelle DeYoung as Brangäne, Peter Seiffert as Tristan, Gerd Grochowski as Kurwenal a René Pape as the cuckolded King Marke.

Concertgebouw Best Orchestra in the World

A panel of leading international critics has ranked Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra no 1, defeating orchestras like Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Symphony. It is the magazine Gramophone who has asked eleven critics to rank the best orchestras in the world. The panel included three British critics from the Gramophone, two Americans, two Asians and one each from Le Monde (France), Die Welt (Germany), De Telegraaf (the Nether-lands) and Die Presse (Austria). These are the best orchestras, according to Gramophone 's critics: 1 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 2 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 3 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 4 London Symphony Orchestra 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra 6 Bavarian Radio Symphony 7 Cleveland Orchestra 8 Los Angeles Philharmonic 9 Budapest Festival Orchestra 10 Dresden Staatskapelle 11 Boston Symphony Orchestra 12 New York Philharmonic 13 San Francisco Symphony 14 Mariinsky Theatre

Stockholm Ring on Swedish TV

The Complete Stockholm Ring is to be broadcast on Swedish TV this autumn SVT2 Saturday 18 October kl 19.45: Das Rheingold SVT2 Saturday 8 November kl 19.40: Die Walküre SVT2 Saturday 29 November kl 19.35: Siegfried SVT2 Saturday 20 December kl 19:00: Götterdämmerung http://www.operan.se