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Xian Zhang to Make Philharmonia Orchestra Debut
Conductor Xian Zhang makes her debut with Philharmonia Orchestra this week, with concerts at the Bedford Corn Exchange (28 March), De Montfort Hall in Leicester (29 March), and The Anvil in Basingstoke (30 March) culminating in a final performance at the Royal...
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Calidore String Quartet co-hosts BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend at Tetbury Music Festival
Calidore String Quartet returns to The UK to co-host the BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend at Tetbury Music Festival. The former BBC New Generation Artists will give a series of concerts on 22 – 24 March featuring music by Prokofiev, Beethoven, Schumann, Caroline Shaw,...
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Praise for Stéphane Denève and Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider North American Brussels Phlharmonic Tour
Stéphane Denève and Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider return from a triumphant 5-date North American tour with the Brussels Philharmonic. Led by their, “formidable music director Stéphane Denève, the orchestra brought both the familiar and the unusual to the hall in a concert of...
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Conductor Mihhail Gerts to Make RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Debut on 22 March
Conductor Mihhail Gerts will make his RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra debut on Friday, 22 March when he steps in to replace the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann. The concert, featuring Bizet’s L’Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2 and Carmen Suite...
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Yeol Eum Son to Make Swiss Concerto Debut with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande on 20 & 21 March
Pianist Yeol Eum Son makes her Swiss Concerto debut with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the baton of Susanna Mälkki on 20th and 21st March. She will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major at Geneva’s Victoria Hall (20 March) and Théâtre de Beaulieu...
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Rupert Charlesworth Earns Raves as Tamino in ENO’s Magic Flute
Tenor Rupert Charlesworth has earned rave reviews in English National Opera’s production of Magic Flute. Mark Berry, in Seen and Heard International, writes, “Rupert Charlesworth stood out in the role of Tamino where he was described by critics as “an excellent...
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Emerson String Quartet Embarks on European Tour 16 – 24 March
Emerson String Quartet travel to Europe for a 3-country, 5 date tour from 16 – 24 March. The Quartet – violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist Paul Watkins - will perform eclectic programmes featuring works by Mozart, Haydn,...
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Valentina Lisitsa Releases Tchaikovsky’s Complete Solo Piano Works on DECCA
“A delicate, sensitive, fluid player who can ripple gently over the keys with the unctuous smoothness of oil.” – The Washington Post Following Tchaikovsky’s 125th anniversary year, celebrated pianist Valentina Lisitsa releases a 10-disc box set of his Complete Works...
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Four-time Grammy® winning soprano Renée Fleming released her first full-length lieder album for almost two decades on 14 June.
The release date coincides with her London musical theatre debut, performing the role of Margaret Johnson in the Tony-winning musical The Light In The Piazza at the Royal Festival Hall!
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Renée Fleming Stars in The Light in the Piazza and Releases New Decca Classics Album, Lieder 17 Jun, 2019 Four-time Grammy® winning soprano Renée Fleming released her first full-length lieder album...Tonight Milan Siljanov performs in his role début as Schaunard in at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich!
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Milan Siljanov Performs in His Role Début as Schaunard in La Bohème at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich 17 Jun, 2019 La Bohème at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich opens tonight (17 June) in which Bas...This weekend sees the start of the 26th annual Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in the #Detroit metropolitan area - two weeks of concerts under the Artistic Directorship of Paul Watkins, including such luminaries as the Emerson String Quartet (presenting the complete Beethoven string quartet over 6 performances), America's number 1 dramatic soprano Christine Goerke, Soprano, the fabulous pianists Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung, the trailblazing violinist #LeilaJosefowicz, the iconoclastic Eighth Blackbird, and virtuoso viola of Lawrence Power, and many more. Get your tickets now!
Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival to feature 20 performances
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The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival is celebrating its 26th anniversary with an international array of artists bringing the best of chamber music to metro Detroit.Here's something special - what a way to celebrate Vasily Petrenko's work with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the impact he has had on the whole city of Liverpool!Something very special happened over the weekend - our sponsor Maestro Tour Management Ltd arranged an overnight trip to Asten, Netherlands to witness the historic casting of our new 'Vasily Bell'! This bell will be dedicated to Vasily Petrenko as a lasting legacy to his exceptional contribution to Liverpool Philharmonic and the city.
The final two bells cast over the weekend are the great C Bell and G Bell for Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, which you can hear in our grand opening concert Thursday 19 September - what a way to ring in the new season! Thank you to all who support us from donors, sponsors and ticket buyers - we couldn't do this without you.
Tickets available from 24 June: bit.ly/30ayjIW
With Akiko Suwanai after our last performance of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s violin concerto at Suntory Hall
We are still buzzing from Hilary Hahn's extraordinary Wigmore Hall Bach recital last night. It was a night we all will long treasure. #TeamIMGA and Team Decca Classics
Carlo Rizzi is back to Galicia tomorrow and on Friday for two concerts with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia at Auditorio Mar de Vigo and Palacio de la Ópera in A Coruña. The Italian/Spanish-flavoured programme will include Pizzetti's Tre Preludi sinfonici per l'Edipo Re di Sofocle, Debussy's Iberia and Strauss's Aus Italien.
For more information: www.sinfonicadegalicia.com/es/conciertos/La Sinfónica de Galicia finaliza su segundo ciclo de abono en el Auditorio Mar de Vigo con obras de Strauss, Debussy y Pizzetti bajo la dirección de Carlo Rizzi
La OSG ofrecerá idéntico programa en su temporada de abono en el Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña el próximo viernes
La Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia finaliza este próximo jueves 30 de mayo (20.30h.) su segunda temporada de abono en el Auditorio Mar de Vigo con un programa con obras de Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy y Pizzetti, bajo la dirección del maestro italiano Caro Rizzi.
El concierto con el que finaliza el ciclo de abono que la OSG organiza por segundo año en colaboración con el Concello de Vigo incluye la interpretación de Tres preludios para el Edipo de Sófocles de I. Pizzetti, Iberia de Claude Debussy y Aus Italien, de Richard Strauss.
El concierto se ofrecerá, así mismo, en la temporada de abono de la OSG en el Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña el próximo viernes 31 de mayo a las 20.30h.
[Descarga aquí el programa de mano en pdf: bit.ly/2KbDMKf]
Carlo Rizzi tiene una larga reputación como uno de los directores de ópera más importantes del mundo, con una gran demanda como artista invitado en los lugares y festivales más prestigiosos. En el teatro de ópera y en la sala de conciertos, su vasto repertorio abarca desde las obras fundamentales del canon operístico y sinfónico hasta las rarezas de Bellini, Cimarosa y Donizetti, y Giordano, Pizzetti y Montemezzi.
Entre sus más recientes compromisos figuran su regreso al Metropolitan con producciones de Tosca, Mefistofeles y Simon Boccanegra; y a la Ópera Nacional de Gales con producciones de Un ballo in maschera de Verdi y sus primeras funciones de Roberto Devereux de Donizetti. Regresará al Festival Rossini en Pésaro para dirigir una nueva producción de uno de los primeros éxitos de Rossini, L'equivoco Stravagante, y debutará con el New National Theatre en Tokio, Japón, con una producción del Falstaff de Verdi.
After the final performance of Otello at the Canadian Opera Company, Gerald Finley was honoured with the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award from the Ontario Arts Foundation.
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One of Canada’s leading classical singers , Gerald Finley was honoured last night with the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award. The presentation was made in conjunction with the Canadian Opera Company's production of Otello where Mr. Finley performed the role of Iago. Read more Here: www.oafdn.ca/news/178 #OAFAwards #opera #Torontoarts
Toby got to meet another one of our wonderful artists when Ellinor D'Melon came in for a visit after her successful concert at Royal Albert Hall yesterday!