Author Archives: Alexander Fallier

About Alexander Fallier

I am the project manager of the Young Germany website

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37. Hamburger Ballett-Tage

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Dance – Song – Parzival
An interview with star baritone Thomas Hampson.
Questions by Andrea C. Röber

On July 1, 2011, a special performance of Parzival – Episodes and Echo takes place as part of the 37th “Hamburger Ballett-Tage” festival: The US-star baritone Thomas Hampson sings The Wound-Dresser, John Adams’ version of a poem by Walt Whitman transformed into music and song.

Thomas Hampson © Dario Acosta

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The Mainz Philosophy

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It’s usually Stefan Reichart’s job to report about the Bundesliga on this blog, but since he’s on holiday, he asked me to take over. What I’ve been asking myself since he told me his holiday dates, though, is whether he decided to be away this week in particular because he expected HSV, the team he supports, to get beaten by Mainz and didn’t fancy having to write about it. If he did, mind you, there wasn’t much point, because as it turned out, HSV put a 1:0 stop to Mainz run of seven victories in a row.

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