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Music and meditation are closely intertwined and can together provide relaxation and a new perspective. Pianist, composer, and neuropsychologist Nicolas Namoradze builds on this connection with a novel and extraordinary concert concept: His piano performance alternates with mindfulness exercises, opening up a new dimension of musical experience. This approach guides the audience “on a path between sensitivity and astonishment. The result? A knockout.” (Augsburger Allgemeine). Namoradze knows what he’s talking about, as he is a PhD cognitive scientist specializing in music perception. But he is also an absolute specialist at the piano: In 2018, he gained international attention by winning the Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary, Canada—a highly prestigious piano competition. His playing is praised as “sparkling, sensitive, and rich in color” (New York Times). In Munich, he demonstrates this with Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier Sonata,” interspersing its performance with guided mindfulness impulses and mental exercises between the movements.

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Prinzregententheater

The Prinzregententheater, or Prince Regent Theatre, is a theatre and opera house located at 12 Prinzregentenplatz in theBavarian city of Munich, Germany.

 

Initiated by Ernst von Possart, the theatre was built in the Prinzregentenstrasse as a festival hall for the operas of Richard Wagner near an area where a similar project of King Ludwig II had failed some decades before. Named after Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria the building was designed by Max Littmann and opened 21 August 1901 with a production of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" by Richard Wagner. Like the Bayreuth theatre, the auditorium was designed to Wagner’s specifications, however an amphitheater has replaced the loges.

 

After the destruction of the Nationaltheater during World War II, the Prinzregententheater housed the Bavarian State Operafrom 1944 to 1963 even though it also suffered damage during the war which was not repaired until 1958. Since its renovation in 1988, the Prinzregententheater, with 1122 seats, has served also for the Bavarian Staatsschauspiel and now houses the Bavarian Theatre Academy founded by August Everding. Another theatre in the building, the Akademietheateror Academy Theatre, seats 300.

 

The Prince Regent theater is reached very well both by car and by public transportation MVV.

With the MVV (Munich Transport)

Subway: U4 Prinzregentenplatz
Bus: Lines 54, 100 Prince Regent Place

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