Sunday, April 10, 2011

April in Paris - 2011






  • Fri 1st: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (OPRF) conducted by Steuart Bedford performed Barber's Violin Concerto (Nemanja Radulovic, soloist) and Tippet's "A Child of Our Time", cast: Indra Thomas, Nora Gubisch, Kim Begley, Jonathan Lemalu 
  • Sat 2:  Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock in concert (John Axelrod conducting Orchestre National des Pays-de-la-Loire): Ravel, Berlioz, Liszt, Dvorak, Brahms, Gershwin 
  • Wed 6 and Thu 7Gil Shaham is back with Orchestre de Paris [Sakari Oramo, cnd]: Finlandia by Sibelius. Violin Cnncerto by W. Walton and 5th by Prokofiev 
  • Fri 8:   Nelson Freire will play Chopin's concerto no.2, and OPRF will add the 5th by Tchaikovsky [Lionel Bringuier - cnd] 
  • Mon 11:  Piano concert by Nelson Freire (check out the rich program) 
  • Fri 15:  Ariane et Barbe Bleue in concert [cnd- Jean Deroyer (OPRF), cast: Jennifer Wilson, Emmanuelle de Negri,  Delphine Haidan, Nicolas Cavallier, Andrea Hill
  • Tue 19: Georges Prêtre will conduct the Orchestra of the Paris Opera. Program: Symph no.2 by Brahms, Les Biches by Poulenc and Daphnis et Chloé by Ravel 
  • Tue 26: Stabat Mater by Pergolesi [cnd- Paul Watkins (English Chamber Orchestra), cast: Anna Netrebko, Kate Lindsay
  • Wed 27 and Thu 28: Lars Vogt on piano and Orchestre de Paris conducted by Paavo Järvi. Program: Trois Danses by Duruflé,  Piano Concerto no.1 by Brahms, and the 5th by Sibelius

       
             
  • Mon 5: Philippe Jordan and Orchestre des Jeunes Mahler: Mahler's 10th & Das Lied von der Erde, soloists: Thomas Hampson and Burckhard Fritz 
  • Thu 7: ONF with Daniele Gatti conducting and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano. Progr:  Concerto for piano & orchestra n° 3 by Beethoven, Der Rosenkavalier (suite), and La Valse by Ravel 
  • Mon 11: Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe and with Thomas Zehetmair violin. Progr:  Concerto for violin & orchestra by Schumann, Symphony n° 3 by Mendelssohn
  • Wed 13: Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest lead by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Karita Mattila will sing Quatre instants by Saariaho, and the orchestra will the Symph no.4 by Sibelius 
  • Thu 14: Parsifal in concert [cnd- Kent Nagano - Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayrische Staatsoper Münich, cast: Nikolai Schukoff, Angela Denoke, Kwangchul Youn, John Wegner, Michael Volle, Steven Humes]
  • Fri 15 & Sun 17: Pelléas et Mélisande in concert [cnd- Louis Langrée (Orchestre de Paris), cast: Natalie Dessay,  Simon Keenlyside, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Laurent Naouri, Alain Vernhes
  • Fri 22: St Matthew Passion [cnd- Ton Koopman (Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra), cast: Marlis Petersen, Maarten Engeltjes, Tilman Lichdi, Klaus Mertens
  • Tue 26:  La scala di seta  [dir-Christian Schiaretti,  cnd- Jean-Claude Malgoire, cast: Leonardo de Lisi Ruth Rosique, Hjördis Thébault, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Ugo Guagliardo, Pierre-Yves Pruvot
  • Thu 28: Farnace by Vivaldi in concert [cnd- Stefano Molardi (I Virtuosi delle Muse), cast: Sonia Prina, Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Anders J. Dahlin, Raffaella Milanesi, Sabina Puértolas, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro]



Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille

  •  Fri 1: Luisa Miller [dir-Gilbert Deflo, cnd-Daniel Oren, cast: Krassimira Stoyanova, Marcelo Alvarez, Orlin Anastassov, Artjun Kotchinian, Maria José Montiel, Franck Ferrari
  • Sat 2, Wed 6, Sun 10, Wed 13: Akhmatova, world premiere of a new opera by Bruno Montovani [dir-Nicolas Joel, cnd-Pascal Rophé, cast: Janina Baechle, Atilla Kish, Lionel Peintre, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Christophe Dumaux...] 
  • Wed 20, Fri 22, Sun 24, Wed 27, Fri 29: Tosca [dir- Werner Schroeter, cnd- Renato Palumbo, cast: Iano Tamar, Massimo Giordano, Franck Ferrari...]



Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Garnier

  • Fri 1, Tue 5: Kat'a Kabanova [dir-Christoph Marthaler, cnd-Tomas Netopil, cast: Angela Denoke, Jane Henschel, Jorma Silicasti, Vincent Le Texier, Donald Kaasch, Andrea Hill, Andrea Hill]  



Opéra Comique 


  • Thu 7, Sat 9, Mon 11, Wed 13, Fri 15, Sun 17: Le Freischütz, new production [dir-Dan Jammett, cnd-Joh Eliot Gardiner, cast: Sophie Karthäuser, Andrew Kennedy, Gidon Saks, Matthew Brook, Virginie Pochon, Samuel Evans...] 
  • Sun 6: Anne Schwanewilms - recital (Manuel Lange, p): Proses Lyriques - Claude Debussy, Mörike-Lieder - Hugo Wolf, Elsässiches Volkslied - Richard Stauss

Musée du Louvre

  • Fri 15: String Quartet Bennewitz - Mozart show (will be live webcast on medici.tv)

Salle Gaveau
  • Mon 4:  Ivo Pogorelich piano recital (Schubert, Chopin, Webern)

Théâtre Athénée

  • Wed 27, Thu 28, Fri 29, Sat 30:  Ali Baba ou les quarante voleurs, opera by Luigi Cherubini [dir- Markus Bothe, cnd-Vincent Monteil, cast: Petits Chanteurs de la Maîtrise de l'Opéra national du Rhin]


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