| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 13-Dec-2012 Walt Disney Concert Hall | Mehta and the LA Phil celebrate their 50th anniversary together |
 It was an auspicious debut; a collaboration that, in time, would propel both orchestra and conductor to the very summit of the classical music world. On the stage of the old Philharmonic Hall in Downtown stepped a 24-year-old conductor at the very beginning of his world career. The orchestra before him had begun to make headway into global prominence during the short-lived tenure of its previous music director, Eduard van Beinum.Read full review... | |
| 4-Jul-2012 Philharmonie im Gasteig | The Munich Philharmonic celebrate the 100th Birthday of Sergiu Celibidache |
 Sergiu Celibidache, the Munich Philharmonic’s Principal Conductor from 1979 to 1996, famously described Bruckner as “God’s greatest gift”, so it was a fitting tribute to the great maestro to perform one of the composer’s greatest works, the monumental Eighth Symphony, at his 100th birthday concert.Read full review... | |
| 10-Dec-2011 National Theatre | Turandot 2.0 |
, Emanuele DAguanno (Pong), Fabio Previati (Ping), in Bayerische Staatsopers production of Turandot, by Wilfried Hösl.jpg) It’s no surprise that Turandot is one of the most performed and best loved operas of all time, coming in at number 15 in the Operabase league table. Its beautiful music and lavish orchestration, along with its very exciting and exotic story are what operatic dreams are made of. The evil princess, who submits all her suitors to a cruel test, with failure punishable by death, provides the perfect starting point for a dramatically charged and emotionally rich opera, and it is this depth and excitement that make Turandot one of my favourite operas in the repertoire.
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| 27-Nov-2011 National Theatre | More Bieito than Beethoven: Fidelio at the Bayerische Staatsoper |
 Beethoven took over nine years to write and edit Fidelio, his only opera. It tells the story of Leonore, whose husband Florestan is being illegally held in prison. She disguises herself as a man, Fidelio, and gets a job in the prison in an attempt to save him. Over the course of its creation it turned from a three-act opera into a two-act one, changed its name, and went through four separate overtures!Read full review... | |
