Opera Chic

The Berliner Philharmoniker's F-Holes :D

The Berliner Philharmoniker gets a new ad campaign conceptualized by Björn Ewers and photographed by Mierswa Kluska, which takes us deep inside the pristine spaces of violins, cellos, flutes and pipe organs.

The Berliner Flaunt Their Entry Points

From the BPO's website, helpful advice for the uninitiated:

If you want to keep up to date on what is happening with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Internet offers lots of opportunities to do so. In addition to the orchestra’s website and the Digital Concert Hall, there are now three other virtual entry points: Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

I mean, imagine Wilhelm "Bunny" Furtwaengler's tweets.

Pamela Rosenberg Out Of Berlin, TV Producer In

After her drama-heavy tenure at the San Francisco Opera, Pamela Rosenberg's term as Intendantin of the Berliner Philharmoiker has been more or less fun, but it has come to an end, too: and by September, 2010, she'll be replaced by Herr Doktor Martin Hoffmann: lawyer, TV executive and TV producer.

OC's suggestion: how about a nice reality TV show, the zany adventures in the life of a major German orchestra? The skits about his roommates stealing Rattle's conditioner write themselves.

The Berliner's Lost Weekend: Sometimes Audiences Need A Drink To Get To The End Of The Concert, Too

Scandal at the Berliner Keggermoniker:

“You go for tranquillisers or beer,” says Klaus Wallendorf, “with me it was beer.” His teacher advised him to drink a beer if he could not reach a note. “Then you drink two beers and it goes smoothly so you think you should do it all the time, “ said Mr Wallendorf, speaking in Thomas Grube’s film Tour of Asia which accompanies the Philharmonic and its chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, on a ground-breaking 2005 tour.