| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 9-Feb-2013 Oslo Opera House, Main Stage | Pappano returns home: The Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Oslo |
 Little-known fact no. 1: Antonio Pappano made his conducting debut at the Norwegian National Opera, conducting La Bohème in 1987.
Little-known fact no. 2: Antonio Pappano was music director of the Norwegian National Opera in the early 90s.
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| 12-Sep-2011 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Pappano's Trittico makes a storming season opener |
 BILL COOPER.jpg) Murder. Suicide. Grand larceny. Puccini's triptych of short operas, two tragedies followed by a riotous farce, always makes for an evening of variety, with the potential for many snatches of greatness. Antonio Pappano is a fan - he recorded Il Trittico with the LSO in 1998, and featured Gianni Schicchi in his BBC series on Italian opera - and undoubtedly had a large hand in its being chosen to open the Royal Opera's 2011-12 season.Read full review... | |
| 7-Aug-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 32: Gardner serves up near-perfect Brahms and Mahler |
 Prom 32 featured two works written in the same year, 1878, by composers who worked mainly in the same city, Vienna. Brahms was an established composer when he wrote his Violin Concerto for his virtuoso friend Joseph Joachim, while Mahler was just 17 when he started writing Das klagende Lied for a competition (the version played tonight was completed in 1880).Read full review... | |
| 5-Aug-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Panache at the Proms |
 There are few greater disappointments than an event which fails to live up to high expectations: film adaptations of favourite books and the January sales seem like obvious examples of events which are often perfectly pleasing but drowned under hype. Thank goodness for the Proms, where natural cynicism is suspended and sold-out performances like the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra are celebrated both for the spin and the experience itself.Read full review... | |
