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 Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CAThe Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham: Katharine Hanrahan Open Rehearsal |
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| Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States Wednesday 19-Jun-13 10:00am The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham: Katharine Hanrahan Open Rehearsal Stravinsky’s music has been a passion of Michael Tilson Thomas’s since he met the composer while studying at USC. Fitting that the music of Stravinsky plays a prominent part in the season. Audience favorite Gil Shaham interprets the exuberant, lilting, and vibrantly expressive concerto, while the SFS dives into The Rite of Spring. | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 05:10pm |
Glyndebourne Opera House Le nozze di Figaro Glyndebourne |
Glyndebourne Opera Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Grandage, Director Christopher Oram, Set Designer Adam Plachetka, Bass-baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Amanda Majeski, Soprano: Countess Almaviva Joshua Hopkins, Baritone: Count Almaviva Luciano di Pasquale, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Anne Mason, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Lydia Teuscher, Soprano: Cherubino Timothy Robinson, Tenor: Don Basilio |
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| Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne BN8 5UU, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 05:10pm Le nozze di Figaro Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Grandage, Director Christopher Oram, Set Designer Adam Plachetka, Bass-baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Amanda Majeski, Soprano: Countess Almaviva Joshua Hopkins, Baritone: Count Almaviva Luciano di Pasquale, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Anne Mason, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Lydia Teuscher, Soprano: Cherubino Timothy Robinson, Tenor: Don Basilio | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 06:30pm |
Jay Pritzker Pavillion, Chicago, IL Pink Martini |
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| Jay Pritzker Pavillion, Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL, United States Wednesday 19-Jun-13 06:30pm Pink Martini Programme not known | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 06:30pm |
Village Underground, London At the World's Edge Spitalfields Music Summer Festival |
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| Village Underground, London, 54 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3PQ, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 06:30pm At the World's Edge Combining puppetry, electronic soundscape and live music, At the World’s Edge recasts the Greek myth of Persephone’s descent into the underworld and her mother’s epic search to get her back. As puppets move and transform in and around the space, music shapes a magical story that is both humorous and tragic, and a soaring adventure for the eyes and ears. Suitable for audiences aged eight and above. | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Orford Church The Church Parables: The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son Aldeburgh Festival |
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| Orford Church, Orford IP12 2LU, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:00pm The Church Parables: The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son Like Curlew River, Britten’s two subsequent Church Parables were both written for Orford Church and were premiered in the Aldeburgh Festivals of 1966
and 1968 respectively. They develop the pioneering ideas of Curlew River – the minimal instrumental and vocal forces and the inclusion of plainchant – but
have very different moods. With The Burning Fiery Furnace, Britten’s aimed to create ‘something much less sombre, an altogether gayer affair’, based on the Old Testament story of Nebuchadnezzar and the three Israelites.
Meanwhile The Prodigal Son was inspired by Rembrandt’s painting The Return of the Prodigal, which Britten had seen two years earlier on a trip to Leningrad. Mahogany’s production takes the principal established in Curlew River of merging East with West and extends it to the two later works, first contrasting Balinese dance drama with stained glass and then Middle Eastern Sufism with the art of Rembrandt and Bosch. Orford Church 7pm (The Burning Fiery Furnace 7–8.15pm; The Prodigal Son 9.30–10.45pm) Tickets are limited to two per booker | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Victoria Rooms, Bristol Bristol University Summer Concert |
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| Victoria Rooms, Bristol, Queen's Road,, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1SA, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Bristol University Summer Concert Works by Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975) | ||
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St John's Smith Square, London YMSO Orchestral Concert |
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| St John's Smith Square, London, Smith Square, London, London SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm YMSO Orchestral Concert | ||
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Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Fairy Queen |
Staatsoper Berlin Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Caught between Baroque and contemporary music: Helmut Oehring takes Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen" as a model for his ideas.Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German) Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Watford Colosseum Watford Philharmonic Society presents An Evening with George Gershwin |
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| Watford Colosseum, Watford WD17 3EX, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Watford Philharmonic Society presents An Evening with George Gershwin | ||
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Birmingham Conservatoire, Adrian Boult Hall Delius Double Delius and Ireland: A Celebration |
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| Birmingham Conservatoire, Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham B3 3HG, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Delius Double ‘Delius and Ireland: A Celebration’ is a five-day Festival, one of the biggest the Conservatoire has ever hosted, involving over 60 individuals from the senior and junior Conservatoire, students and Faculty (including those famously associated with this repertoire), as well as orchestras, choirs and guest artists. Fifteen concert programmes will showcase songs, piano pieces, chamber and orchestral works - including performances of the complete solo piano works by John Ireland, the Delius Double and Ireland Piano Concerto – and culminate in a performance of Delius's masterpiece, Seadrift, with the Conservatoire Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Lionel Friend in Birmingham Town Hall on 21st June. This programme also includes the world première of an early work by Benjamin Britten entitled Chaos and Cosmos, which the Conservatoire’s students have been preparing and recording as part of the Britten Thematic Catalogue. Price type: Low cost, half at £10 or less | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Lady Macbeth of Mzensk |
Zurich Opera Teodor Currentzis, Conductor Andreas Homoki, Director Hartmut Meyer, Set Designer Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich Gun-Brit Barkmin, Soprano: Katerina Lvovna Izmailova Kurt Rydl, Bass: Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov Benjamin Bernheim, Tenor: Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov Brandon Jovanovich, Tenor: Sergey Kismara Pessatti, Mezzo-soprano: Aksinia Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Sonyetka Valery Murga, Bass: Office Manager Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Pope Tomasz Slawinski, Bass: Police inspector |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Lady Macbeth of Mzensk Opera in nine scenes
Libretto by Alexander G. Preis and Dmitri Shostakovich
after a novella by Nikolai Leskov
The young wife of a merchant, Katerina Ismailova, murders three people. She stirs rat poison into her tyrannical father-in-law’s dish of mushrooms, beats her husband to death together with her lover, and at the prison camp in Siberia, as she finally jumps to her death, drags a rival down with her. Nevertheless, in a horrific men’s world of greed, lechery and violence, Katerina is the only figure with a human face in this opera. Only for her has Shostakovich reserved a compassionate tone. The society in which she becomes a murderess is barbaric. With twisted mouths, the grotesque faces of human wickedness grin out at us from Shostakovich’s magnificent score.
Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was premièred in Leningrad in 1934. It marks a decisive turning point in Shostakovich’s oeuvre. After Joseph Stalin attended a performance of the opera in 1936, the famous article entitled Chaos instead of music was published in Pravda. The work was scourged as the expression of “radical left-wing self-indulgence” and “petit bourgeois innovation”. It disappeared from theatres, Shostakovich had to fear for his life, never composed another opera, and from then on concealed his true musical feelings and ideas behind a thousand masks.
Teodor Currentzis, the spirited Greek conductor from Siberia who has caused a furore with his unconventional interpretations, is the musical director of the production. Tatjana Serjan, famous for her Verdi roles, will be giving her role début as Katerina. Zurich Opera Director Andreas Homoki will be staging his second production of this season.
In Russian with German and English supertitles.Teodor Currentzis, Conductor Andreas Homoki, Director Hartmut Meyer, Set Designer Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich Gun-Brit Barkmin, Soprano: Katerina Lvovna Izmailova Kurt Rydl, Bass: Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov Benjamin Bernheim, Tenor: Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov Brandon Jovanovich, Tenor: Sergey Kismara Pessatti, Mezzo-soprano: Aksinia Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Sonyetka Valery Murga, Bass: Office Manager Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Pope Tomasz Slawinski, Bass: Police inspector | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
St David's Hall, Cardiff BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013 Concert |
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| St David's Hall, Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 2DP, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013 Concert Programme not known | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Philharmonie, Köln Concerto Köln: Bach Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 |
Bach J.S., Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV1083 (Ist Mein Herz in Missetaten) Bach J.S., Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV1083 (Sieh, Du Wilstdie Warheit) |
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| Philharmonie, Köln, Bischofsgartenstraße 1, 50667 Köln, Germany Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:00pm Concerto Köln: Bach Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV1083 (Ist Mein Herz in Missetaten) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV1083 (Sieh, Du Wilstdie Warheit) | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Gewandhaus, Mendelssohn Saal, Leipzig No 57 Bach und Zeitgenossen |
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| Gewandhaus, Mendelssohn Saal, Leipzig, D 04109 Leipzig, Germany Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:00pm No 57 Bach und Zeitgenossen | ||
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Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham |
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| Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:00pm The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham Stravinsky’s music has been a passion of Michael Tilson Thomas’s since he met the composer while studying at USC. Fitting that the music of Stravinsky plays a prominent part in the season. Audience favorite Gil Shaham interprets the exuberant, lilting, and vibrantly expressive concerto, while the SFS dives into The Rite of Spring. | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Stadthalle, Heidelberg Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra |
Wagner, Wesendonck Lieder (arr. Hans Werner Henze) Bruckner, Symphony no. 3 in D minor "Wagner Symphony", WAB 103 (first version, 1873) |
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| Stadthalle, Heidelberg, Neckarstaden 24, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:00pm Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Wesendonck Lieder (arr. Hans Werner Henze) Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896), Symphony no. 3 in D minor "Wagner Symphony", WAB 103 (first version, 1873) | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:30pm |
Village Underground, London At the World's Edge Spitalfields Music Summer Festival |
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| Village Underground, London, 54 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3PQ, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:30pm At the World's Edge Combining puppetry, electronic soundscape and live music, At the World’s Edge recasts the Greek myth of Persephone’s descent into the underworld and her mother’s epic search to get her back. As puppets move and transform in and around the space, music shapes a magical story that is both humorous and tragic, and a soaring adventure for the eyes and ears. Suitable for audiences aged eight and above. | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 02:00pm |
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham |
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| Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States Thursday 20-Jun-13 02:00pm The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham Stravinsky’s music has been a passion of Michael Tilson Thomas’s since he met the composer while studying at USC. Fitting that the music of Stravinsky plays a prominent part in the season. Audience favorite Gil Shaham interprets the exuberant, lilting, and vibrantly expressive concerto, while the SFS dives into The Rite of Spring. | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 05:20pm |
Grange Park Opera, Northington, Winchester Bellini's I Puritani Grange Park Opera |
Grange Park Opera Matthew Stiff, Bass: Lord Walton Christophoros Stamboglis, Bass: Giorgio Valton Jesus Leon, Tenor: Arturo Talbo Damiano Salerno, Baritone: Riccardo Olivia Ray, Soprano: Enrichetta Claire Rutter, Soprano: Elvira Alberto Sousa, Tenor: Sir Bruno Robertson English Chamber Orchestra |
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| Grange Park Opera, Northington, Winchester, Winchester SO24 9TG, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Jun-13 05:20pm Bellini's I Puritani Public booking opens in FebruaryMatthew Stiff, Bass: Lord Walton Christophoros Stamboglis, Bass: Giorgio Valton Jesus Leon, Tenor: Arturo Talbo Damiano Salerno, Baritone: Riccardo Olivia Ray, Soprano: Enrichetta Claire Rutter, Soprano: Elvira Alberto Sousa, Tenor: Sir Bruno Robertson English Chamber Orchestra | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 05:30pm |
Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Holland Festival |
De Nederlandse Opera Marc Albrecht, Conductor David Alden, Director Thomas Johannes Mayer, Bass: Hans Sachs Alastair Miles, Bass: Pogner Pascal Pittie, Tenor: Kunz Vogelgesang Mattijs van de Woerd, Baritone: Konrad Nachtigall Adrian Eröd, Baritone: Sixtus Beckmesser Thomas Oliemans, Baritone: Fritz Kothner Brian Galliford, Tenor: Balthasar Zorn Roberto Saccà, Tenor: Walther von Stolzing Ana Maria Martinez, Soprano: Eva Sarah Castle, Mezzo-soprano: Magdalene Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Koor van De Nederlandse Opera Marcel Beekman, Tenor: Ulrich Eisslinger |
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| Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Waterlooplein 22, Amsterdam, Netherlands Thursday 20-Jun-13 05:30pm In his only comic opera, Wagner distilled poetry and music into a single unified form that unfolds as an unbroken stream of music-dramatic dialogue. It became a singspiel, partly based on personal experience, about the romance between the bourgeois girl Eva Pogner and the knight Walther von Stolzing, who may only wed his beloved once he has won the annual singing contest. The cobbler Hans Sachs represents, on the one hand, the old guard as a member of the Guild of Mastersingers; on the other hand he is open to modernization and stimulates the knight’s artistic gifts, stoking the conflict between narrow-mindedness and true artistry – a theme certainly not unfamiliar to Wagner himself. Love triumphs in the end, thanks to Sachs’ closing address in which he praises the ‘master’s honour’, a typically German honour one might view with considerable scepticism: the Meistersinger finale was, after all, misused for political purposes.Running time 5 hours 25 minutes with two intervals, in German with Dutch and English surtitles.Image credit: Ada Nieuwendijk Marc Albrecht, Conductor David Alden, Director Thomas Johannes Mayer, Bass: Hans Sachs Alastair Miles, Bass: Pogner Pascal Pittie, Tenor: Kunz Vogelgesang Mattijs van de Woerd, Baritone: Konrad Nachtigall Adrian Eröd, Baritone: Sixtus Beckmesser Thomas Oliemans, Baritone: Fritz Kothner Brian Galliford, Tenor: Balthasar Zorn Roberto Saccà, Tenor: Walther von Stolzing Ana Maria Martinez, Soprano: Eva Sarah Castle, Mezzo-soprano: Magdalene Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Koor van De Nederlandse Opera Marcel Beekman, Tenor: Ulrich Eisslinger | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 05:50pm |
Glyndebourne Opera House Ariadne auf Naxos Glyndebourne |
Glyndebourne Opera Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Katharina Thoma, Director Julia Müer, Set Designer Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Music Master Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Primadonna (Ariadne) Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-soprano: Composer Teodora Gheorghiu, Soprano: Zerbinetta Dmitri Vargin, Baritone: Harlequin James Kryshak, Tenor: Scaramuccio Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor: Bacchus Guy de Mey, Tenor: Dancing Master |
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| Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne BN8 5UU, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Jun-13 05:50pm Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Katharina Thoma, Director Julia Müer, Set Designer Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Music Master Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Primadonna (Ariadne) Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-soprano: Composer Teodora Gheorghiu, Soprano: Zerbinetta Dmitri Vargin, Baritone: Harlequin James Kryshak, Tenor: Scaramuccio Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor: Bacchus Guy de Mey, Tenor: Dancing Master | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 06:30pm |
Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, SA Masters Series 5 |
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| Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, SA, 1st Floor, 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia Thursday 20-Jun-13 06:30pm Masters Series 5 | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Royal College of Music: Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, London Symphonic Dances |
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| Royal College of Music: Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm Symphonic Dances The Royal College of Music is delighted to welcome the superb young conductor Ilyich Rivas to conduct the RCM Symphony Orchestra. Described as “a phenomenon” by The Guardian, Rivas was recently appointed Assistant Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Under his direction the RCM Symphony Orchestra showcases Shostakovich’s powerful Sixth Symphony and Richard Strauss’ majestic tone poem Don Juan, a seminal work that made the 25 year old composer a star after its premiere in 1889.
The concert ends with Bernstein’s celebrated Symphonic Dances from West Side Story – a masterpiece of Hollywood orchestration which alternates between exhilarating rhythms and beautiful melodies. | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Petersfield Festival Hall Petersfield Orchestra (Conductor: Robin Browning) |
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| Petersfield Festival Hall, Petersfield, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm Petersfield Orchestra (Conductor: Robin Browning) | ||
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Cheltenham Town Hall The Eight Seasons |
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| Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham GL50 1QA, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm The Eight Seasons The Soloists feature in a fascinating double bill of Vivaldi’s and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons at Cheltenham Town Hall. Vivaldi’s enchanting quartet of concertos are presented in tandem with the colourful evocations of Ástor Piazzolla, the Argentinian master of the ‘new tango’. The notion that at any given moment on our planet there exist opposite seasons in each hemisphere is the inspiration for this thrilling combination of works.Image credit: Mark Simmons | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm |
St David's Hall, Cardiff BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013 Concert |
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| St David's Hall, Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 2DP, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013 Concert Programme not known | ||
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Birmingham Symphony Hall Flowers and Fables |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm Flowers and Fables Sibelius took the classical symphony and charged it with the freshness and energy of nature itself. Lutoslawski, meanwhile, launched brilliant musical fireworks into the grey skies of postwar Poland. Edward Gardner loves them both, and he begins and ends this concert with two of the twentieth century’s most original – and inspiring – symphonies. In between, something magical happens, as soprano Lucy Crowe re-tells Sibelius’s primal northern myth - and proves that Lutoslawski’s enchanted nursery rhymes aren’t just for children. (£10-£42) | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, NY New York Philharmonic |
Wagner, Orchestral excerpts from The Ring of the Nibelung (arr Alan Gilbert after Erich Leinsdorf) |
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| Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall, New York City, NY, New York City, NY 10023, United States Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm New York Philharmonic Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Orchestral excerpts from The Ring of the Nibelung (arr Alan Gilbert after Erich Leinsdorf) | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Staatstheater Darmstadt Extrakonzert |
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| Staatstheater Darmstadt, Georg-Büchner-Platz 1, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:00pm Extrakonzert | ||
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Salle Pleyel, Paris Frank Peter Zimmermann plays Shostakovitch's Violin Concerto no. 1 |
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| Salle Pleyel, Paris, 252, rue du faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:00pm Frank Peter Zimmermann plays Shostakovitch's Violin Concerto no. 1 | ||
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Hagia Eirene Museum, Istanbul Venice Baroque Orchestra and Magdalena Kožená Istanbul Music Festival |
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| Hagia Eirene Museum, Istanbul, Cankurtaran Mh, Istanbul 34122, Turkey Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:00pm Venice Baroque Orchestra and Magdalena Kožená Well-known to the festival audience, the Venice Baroque Orchestra under the baton of Andrea Marcon returns to the glamorous Hagia Eirene; this time with Magdalena Kožená, “an absolute diva” highly sought after by distinguished opera houses and concert stages all around the world.Tickets 250, 200, 150 tl - student 30 tl - balcony 350 tl. | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR): Henri le Boeuf Concert Hall, Brussels National Orchestra of Belgium |
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| Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR): Henri le Boeuf Concert Hall, Brussels, Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, B1000 Brussels, Belgium Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:00pm National Orchestra of Belgium Image credit: Andrey Boreyko © Wim Van Eesbeeck Works by Unknown (Overture - TBC) | ||
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Snape Maltings Concert Hall Britten Dances Aldeburgh Festival |
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| Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape IP17 1SP, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:00pm Britten Dances The Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet Flanders A Britten centenary celebration through dance, featuring new choreography inspired by Britten from Kim Brandstrup (music: Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge), who creates a new work for The Royal Ballet, and Ashley Page (music: Britten Young Apollo & Purcell arr. Britten Chacony) and Cameron McMillan (music: Larry Goves new work after Britten’s Nocturnal), who make dances for Royal Ballet Flanders. | ||
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Stadthalle, Heidelberg Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra |
Wagner, Wesendonck Lieder (arr. Hans Werner Henze) Bruckner, Symphony no. 3 in D minor "Wagner Symphony", WAB 103 (first version, 1873) |
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| Stadthalle, Heidelberg, Neckarstaden 24, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:00pm Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Wesendonck Lieder (arr. Hans Werner Henze) Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896), Symphony no. 3 in D minor "Wagner Symphony", WAB 103 (first version, 1873) | ||
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Konzerthaus, Dortmund Hélène Grimaud (Klavier) James Gaffigan (Dirigent) Luzerner Sinfonieorchester Ruhr Piano Festival |
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| Konzerthaus, Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:00pm Hélène Grimaud (Klavier) James Gaffigan (Dirigent) Luzerner Sinfonieorchester Prices € 80 | 70 | 60 | 28 | 1815% discount on a single ticket with the purchase of at least four concerts of the "Great Piano Concertos" series | ||
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Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, IL Muti conducts Verdi |
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| Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL 60604, United States Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:00pm Muti conducts Verdi | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:15pm |
Wolkenturm, Grafenegg Midsummer Night's Gala |
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| Wolkenturm, Grafenegg, Grafenegg, Austria Thursday 20-Jun-13 08:15pm Midsummer Night's Gala Each year, the majestic Wolkenturm in Grafenegg serves as a stage for many great concerts, to the gain of the Austrian music scene and far beyond. The evenings on the Wolkenturm are traditionally opened with the Midsummer Night’s Gala, which brings some of the greatest stars on the international music scene to Grafenegg. The first group of well-known artists this year consists of soprano Karita Mattila, bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni and Austrian percussion virtuoso Martin Grubinger, who will perform together with the Tonkünstler under Andrés Orozco-Estrada. | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 01:30pm |
Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, IL Muti conducts Verdi |
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| Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL 60604, United States Friday 21-Jun-13 01:30pm Muti conducts Verdi | ||
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City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney, NSW ACO - Richard Tognetti Presents ACO2 |
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| City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney, NSW, 2-12 Angel Place, Sydney, NSW, Australia Friday 21-Jun-13 01:30pm ACO - Richard Tognetti Presents ACO2 | ||
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Aldeburgh Church Britten–Pears Young Artists II Aldeburgh Festival |
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| Aldeburgh Church, Aldeburgh IP15 5DY, United Kingdom Friday 21-Jun-13 03:00pm Britten–Pears Young Artists II A concert that juxtaposes the sounds of a horn quartet with viola – Hindemith and Britten’s own instrument – is an alluring prospect, and the instruments’ very essence seems to be represented here. The viola’s burnished eloquence weeps in memorials by Hindemith and Bridge and spins fantastical tales in Schumann’s fairy stories; the horn’s heritage celebrated in smooth cantilenas and quicksilver caprice. Ghosts lurk here too – the horn virtuoso Dennis Brain and his quartet, and Britten, whose deft arrangements of other people’s music so often blends poetry and polish, working with the grain to reveal new beauty beneath the veneer. | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 05:10pm |
Glyndebourne Opera House Le nozze di Figaro Glyndebourne |
Glyndebourne Opera Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Grandage, Director Christopher Oram, Set Designer Adam Plachetka, Bass-baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Amanda Majeski, Soprano: Countess Almaviva Joshua Hopkins, Baritone: Count Almaviva Luciano di Pasquale, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Anne Mason, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Lydia Teuscher, Soprano: Cherubino Timothy Robinson, Tenor: Don Basilio |
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| Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne BN8 5UU, United Kingdom Friday 21-Jun-13 05:10pm Le nozze di Figaro Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Grandage, Director Christopher Oram, Set Designer Adam Plachetka, Bass-baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Amanda Majeski, Soprano: Countess Almaviva Joshua Hopkins, Baritone: Count Almaviva Luciano di Pasquale, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Anne Mason, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Lydia Teuscher, Soprano: Cherubino Timothy Robinson, Tenor: Don Basilio | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 06:30pm |
Jay Pritzker Pavillion, Chicago, IL Iris dévoilée |
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| Jay Pritzker Pavillion, Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL, United States Friday 21-Jun-13 06:30pm Iris dévoilée | ||
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Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA Stravinsky's Russian Roots |
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| Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA 94102, United States Friday 21-Jun-13 06:30pm Stravinsky's Russian Roots The joyous Les Noces “depicts” a wedding the way an Altman film uses scraps of conversation to tell a tale, and boasts four pianists on stage. One hundred years ago, Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Stravinsky and Monteux—legends all—triggered the most scandalous evening in ballet history with the premiere of The Rite of Spring. The combination of Stravinsky’s revolutionary music and Nijinsky’s startlingly un-balletic choreography caused a riot. Now universally admired, the music has lost none of its freshness and power. | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Lady Macbeth of Mzensk |
Zurich Opera Teodor Currentzis, Conductor Andreas Homoki, Director Hartmut Meyer, Set Designer Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich Gun-Brit Barkmin, Soprano: Katerina Lvovna Izmailova Kurt Rydl, Bass: Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov Benjamin Bernheim, Tenor: Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov Brandon Jovanovich, Tenor: Sergey Kismara Pessatti, Mezzo-soprano: Aksinia Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Sonyetka Valery Murga, Bass: Office Manager Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Pope Tomasz Slawinski, Bass: Police inspector |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Friday 21-Jun-13 07:00pm Lady Macbeth of Mzensk Opera in nine scenes
Libretto by Alexander G. Preis and Dmitri Shostakovich
after a novella by Nikolai Leskov
The young wife of a merchant, Katerina Ismailova, murders three people. She stirs rat poison into her tyrannical father-in-law’s dish of mushrooms, beats her husband to death together with her lover, and at the prison camp in Siberia, as she finally jumps to her death, drags a rival down with her. Nevertheless, in a horrific men’s world of greed, lechery and violence, Katerina is the only figure with a human face in this opera. Only for her has Shostakovich reserved a compassionate tone. The society in which she becomes a murderess is barbaric. With twisted mouths, the grotesque faces of human wickedness grin out at us from Shostakovich’s magnificent score.
Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was premièred in Leningrad in 1934. It marks a decisive turning point in Shostakovich’s oeuvre. After Joseph Stalin attended a performance of the opera in 1936, the famous article entitled Chaos instead of music was published in Pravda. The work was scourged as the expression of “radical left-wing self-indulgence” and “petit bourgeois innovation”. It disappeared from theatres, Shostakovich had to fear for his life, never composed another opera, and from then on concealed his true musical feelings and ideas behind a thousand masks.
Teodor Currentzis, the spirited Greek conductor from Siberia who has caused a furore with his unconventional interpretations, is the musical director of the production. Tatjana Serjan, famous for her Verdi roles, will be giving her role début as Katerina. Zurich Opera Director Andreas Homoki will be staging his second production of this season.
In Russian with German and English supertitles.Teodor Currentzis, Conductor Andreas Homoki, Director Hartmut Meyer, Set Designer Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich Gun-Brit Barkmin, Soprano: Katerina Lvovna Izmailova Kurt Rydl, Bass: Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov Benjamin Bernheim, Tenor: Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov Brandon Jovanovich, Tenor: Sergey Kismara Pessatti, Mezzo-soprano: Aksinia Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Sonyetka Valery Murga, Bass: Office Manager Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Pope Tomasz Slawinski, Bass: Police inspector | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 07:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Thomas Rösner, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Friday 21-Jun-13 07:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Thomas Rösner, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 07:00pm |
St John's Smith Square, London A Russian Romance |
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| St John's Smith Square, London, Smith Square, London, London SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom Friday 21-Jun-13 07:00pm A Russian Romance | ||
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Residenz: Kaisersaal, Würzburg Münchener Kammerorchester Mozartfest Würzburg |
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| Residenz: Kaisersaal, Würzburg, Residenzplatz 2, 97090 Würzburg, Germany Friday 21-Jun-13 07:00pm Münchener Kammerorchester Image credit: Oliver Lang | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall Friday Night Classics: Ol' Blue Eyes |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm Friday Night Classics: Ol' Blue Eyes Including: Let’s Face the Music and Dance • New York, New York • Old Man River • You Make Me Feel So Young • Come Fly With Me • Luck Be A Lady • My Kind Of Town • I Get A Kick Out Of You • I’ve Got You Under My Skin • Nice ‘n’ Easy • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Well ring-a-ding-ding - Ol’ Blue Eyes is back! Vocalist Gary Williams has been hailed as the closest thing today to hearing Sinatra himself - and in this spectacular tribute using Sinatra’s original, unmistakable orchestral arrangements, he’ll sound like a million bucks. You Make Me Feel So Young, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, New York, New York, Luck Be A Lady, My Kind Of Town, Nice ‘n’ Easy…it’s just classic after swinging classic. Come fly with the CBSO! (£12.50-£40) | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Civic Hall Stratford, Stratford-on-Avon Master and Pupil |
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| Civic Hall Stratford, Stratford-on-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon CV37 6LU, United Kingdom Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm Master and Pupil | ||
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Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Fairy Queen |
Staatsoper Berlin Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm Caught between Baroque and contemporary music: Helmut Oehring takes Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen" as a model for his ideas.Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German) Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
