Enjoy a rare chance to hear Anton Rubinstein‘s opera The Demon in a concert performance by the chorus and orchestra of Chelsea Opera Group under the baton of Oliver Zeffman. A cast of international soloists join conductor, orchestra and chorus for the performance.
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2019 BBC Proms 19 July – 14 September
FROM HILDEGARD OF BINGEN TO HIP-HOP – SIR HENRY WOULD BE PROUD!
Unveiling the 2019 BBC Proms
Friday 19 July – Saturday 14 September 2019
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich in 2019-20
Season Preview: 2019-20 Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
This is the first season with Paavo Järvi as Chief Conductor and will clearly have a strong Nordic flavour, just as one would expect: Järvi will conduct (and record) all Tchaikovsky’s symphonies. To open the season (2,3 and 4 October), Sibelius’s epic Kullervo. And, as part of the Zurich Festival, a Shostakovich First Symphony, with the Elgar Cello Concerto in the first half (soloist Steven Isserlis). Järvi will also conduct Nielsen’s Second Symphony as part of his newly formed Conductors’ Academy (which he has started in his home town of Pärnu, Estonia). The season ends (19 and 21 June 2020) with a semi-staged performance of Fidelio.
CONDUCTOR PIETARI INKINEN IN CONVERSATION WITH GREGOR TASSIE
Pietari Inkinen talks to Gregor Tassie
The Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen started playing the violin and piano at four years and entered the Sibelius Music Academy graduating in violin studies (2003) and in conducting (2005) after which he studied with Zakhar Bron in Germany. He formed his own Piano Trio – the Inkinen Trio, and also performed in a rock band in Helsinki. He decided to devote his career to conducting and his first position was as chief conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (2008-2015). Inkinen recorded all the Sibelius symphonies for Naxos with the NZSO. In April 2019 the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra under Pietari Inkinen are touring Europe in programmes reflecting both the central repertoire and music from the Far East and from Inkinen’s homeland.
Simon O’Neill’s Debut Album of Beethoven, Schumann, Richard Strauss and Wagner
DISTANT BELOVED – SIMON O’NEILL (TENOR)
& TERENCE DENNIS (PIANO)
DEBUT ALBUM ON DECCA CLASSICS BY WORLD-LEADING NEW ZEALAND HELDENTENOR IS OUT NOW (REVIEW BELOW)
LIEDER BY BEETHOVEN, SCHUMANN, RICHARD STRAUSS AND WAGNER
Zurich Opera House in 2019-20
Season Preview: Zurich Opera House 2019/2020
Leeds Lieder Announces 2019 Art-Song Festival
Leeds Lieder Festival 2019: Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th April 2019
Leeds Lieder announces their Ninth Festival – ‘Then Shall Song’s Magic Break Free’ – a four-day celebration of art-song (25th to 28th April) under the Artistic Directorship of Joseph Middleton.