Munich Biennale
munich biennale german münchener biennale contemporary opera music theatre festival city munich full german name internationale festival für neues musiktheater literally international festival new music theater biennial festival created han werner henze held evennumbered year – week late spring festival concentrate world premiere theaterrelated contemporary music particular focus commissioning first opera young composer henze prolific composer opera described genesis festival like whole story started query departmental head munich cultural office whether would interested considering creating sort civic music festival munich period time suggested organizing something lacking point something also exist anywhere else world yet urgent necessity – namely place young generation composer interested theatre could realize idea henze curated first four festival established general format festival followed short run premiered opera preceded talk additional concert featured composer introduce audience idea music see also klangspuren peter ruzicka took artistic director one influential administrative artistic position european musictheatre scene year biennale jointly curated henze ruzicka broadened scope work presented emphasis work using multimedia moving away textbased source characterised period curated henze composer manos tsangaris daniel ott took joint artistic director biennale starting approach curation expanded festival remit beyond opera reflect expanded composition term open field new music theatre span new opera scenic installation minimalized artistic intervention municipal space composed performance katrin beck manuela kerer took joint artistic director biennale starting world premiere marked wp munich biennale provided first early commission stage work many composer established opera composer markanthony turnage detlev glanert gerd kühr hansjürgen von bose param vir toshio hosokawa violeta dinescu strongly international scope festival meant able offer opportunity missing national level note source münchener biennale festival website retrieved march salzman eric desi thomas new music theater seeing voice hearing body oxford university press usa isbn peter alexa woolf munich biennale contemporary music festival – may pgw aw musicwebinternationalcom john warnaby tenth münchener biennale musicwebinternationalcom may komponieren für die reine natur münchener merkur april german münchener biennale urwaldsymphonie und surrealer seelentrip bayerischer rundfunk may german gerhard rohde münchener biennale wozu der ganze aufwand faz may german