See 3 performances featuring Harry BicketInternationally renowned as an opera and concert conductor of great distinction, Harry Bicket is especially noted for his interpretation of the baroque and classical repertoire and from the beginning of the 2007/8 season takes up the position of Artistic Director of The English Concert.
Recent seasons have included opera productions for Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Los Angeles Opera, Glyndebourne, Santa Fe, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Spoleto, Liceu Opera Barcelona and regular appearances with the Bavarian State Opera since his Munich debut in 2000. Orchestras include Seattle, San Francisco and Colorado Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Danish Radio Sinfonietta and Scottish Chamber.
He made his triumphant Metropolitan Opera debut in December 2004 conducting a new production of Rodelinda with Renée Fleming and David Daniels, and he was immediately re-invited for Giulio Cesare in 2006/7 and Clemenza di Tito in May 2008. In 2001, his debut production for Liceu Opera, Giulio Cesare, won the Critics’ Prize for best conductor, and he made highly-acclaimed returns to Barcelona for Midsummer Night's Dream (2005) and Ariodante (2006). His Covent Garden debut (Orlando, 2003, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment) was nominated for 'Best New Opera Production' in the 2004 Laurence Olivier Awards, and his five commercial recordings with the OAE, including releases with Renée Fleming, Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson and Ian Bostridge, have all earned him glowing reviews.
Last season included his debuts with The English Concert and New York Philharmonic as well as further productions for Los Angeles, the Met, Bavarian State and Lyric Operas. Plans for 2007/8 and beyond include his debut with Chicago Symphony, returns to Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic and Rotterdam Philharmonic as well as concerts, recordings and tours with the English Concert. Forthcoming opera includes Croesus with Opera North and Minnesota Opera, Clemenza at the Metropolitan Opera, and three further productions at the Liceu, Barcelona.
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| 4-Apr-2013 Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House | The British in Egypt: McVicar's Giulio Cesare triumphs at the Met |
 When David McVicar’s Giulio Cesare opened at Glyndebourne in 2005, international attention was focused on the breakdown of Iraq into a civil war that its American and British occupiers couldn’t control. A production offered by a formidably aristocratic opera house in East Sussex – with its champagne-and-strawberries picnics, enforced black tie, and cows at pasture – could only ever be quaint in its political indictments.Read full review... | |
| 10-Feb-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | A finely-cast Radamisto from The English Concert |
 Handel’s Radamisto has an improbable plot (although average by Baroque opera standards) which can make it difficult to stage. The most recent staging in London was the ENO production in 2010, which had a largely abstract setting.Read full review... | |
| 2-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 26: An unforgettable B minor Mass with The English Concert |
 J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor was described by its first publisher as “the greatest musical work of art of all times and nations”. It’s also the culmination of one man’s great life of musical creativity, and a great personal statement of faith. Such an important and well-loved work as this places huge extra demands on performers, and Harry Bicket and the orchestra and choir of The English Concert rose admirably to the challenge with a stellar performance last night at the BBC Proms.
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| 7-Jul-2012 Wigmore Hall | Monteverdi meets Stravinsky: Old and new at the Wigmore Hall |
 It is not often you find Monteverdi and Stravinsky snuggled side-by-side on the same programme, but that was exactly what was packed into the latest instalment of The Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’ series at the Wigmore Hall. Joined by mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, the English Concert (directed by Harry Bicket) and a number of different guest singers and instrumentalists, Ian Bostridge constructed a programme set to be a feast of the old and new combined, a mix of musical offerings from madrigals to cantatas from the 1590s to the 1950s.
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