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The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Kent Nagano have returned from a memorable tour in South America (April 23 to May 3, 2013) with seven concerts in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Colombia.... more

Kent Nagano conducts the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in a concert on 16 April that is streamed on Medici TV, available until mid of July: Please click here to watch the concert for free. ... more

Kent Nagano’s first season as Principal Guest Conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra will be presented at a Gala Concert tonight. You can watch a live video stream of the concert at 19.15 CET (New York 1.15 pm / Moscow...... more

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Music Director Kent Nagano have announced their programme for the 2013/14 season. The orchestra has two reasons at once to celebrate: its 80th anniversary and the inauguration of the...... more

In his last season as General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera, Kent Nagano is conducting, in addition to the new production of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (premiere 13 February), two first performances: a piano concerto...... more

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will be visiting South America from 23 April to 3 May 2013 under the direction of Kent Nagano. The tour will begin in Brazil with two concerts in São Paulo (Sala São Paulo), on 23 and 24...... more

At the Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano conducts the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s opera “Babylon”. The philosopher Peter Sloterdijk has written the libretto for this work that was commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera....... more

The board of the Hamburg State Opera decided today to appoint a new artistic leadership. George Delnon will become new Intendant and member of the board and Kent Nagano will become Principal Musical Director...... more

Kent Nagano has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Sweden. Kent Nagano will start his three year tenure in the autumn of 2013. This is yet...... more

Kent Nagano and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra will be opening the Musikfest Berlin on 31 August with a hommage to Charles Ives. The programme features Charles Ives’ Orchestral Set No. 2, his Symphony No. 2 and contemporary...... more

Music Director Kent Nagano and his Orchestre symphonique de Montréal have announced their 2012/13 season. With the inauguration of their new concert hall in September 2011 the Orchestra will explore all the possibilities offered...... more

A live recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal was just released by Sony. The symphony was performed on 7, 9 and 10 September 2011 for the inaugural concerts of the...... more

Kent Nagano will be opening the cycle of Wagner’s „Der Ring des Nibelungen“ with the performance of „Das Rheingold“ on 4 February at the Bavarian State Opera Munich. Between February and June all four pieces of the tetralogy will...... more

Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will inaugurate their new concert hall on 7 September 2011. ... more

Kent Nagano conducts the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in a new Sony recording “Gods, Heroes and Men” with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica" and Beethoven’s ballet music "The Creatures of Prometheus". ... more

Kaija Saariahos „L’amour de loin“ with the DSO Berlin and Rundfunkchor Berlin is „Best Opera Recording of the year“... more

The documentary „Kent Nagano – Montreal Symphony“ is a portrait about the conductor Kent Nagano and will be shown at selected cinemas across Germany from 13 January 2011. Film maker Bettina Ehrhardt accompanied Kent Nagano and...... more

The Bayerisches Staatsorchester under Kent Nagano has released a new recording on Farao classics together with the Audi Youth Choir Academy (Jugendchorakademie).... more

Kent Nagano's opera recording of Saariaho's "L'Amour De Loin" was nominated for a GRAMMY in the category Best Opera Recording.... more

On 2 October Kent Nagano will be guest at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden together with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and conduct the world premiere of “Sternlose Nacht” by Toshio Hosokawa. The piece has been commissioned by the...... more

Kent Nagano will go on tour with the Bavarian State Orchestra this September. The programmes include Bruckner's symphony No. 7, and works by Berio Strauss, Stravinsky et al. Please find the tour dates here:... more

In August 2010, Kent Nagano will perform at three Music Festivals: at the Orford Festival, Canada (18 June – 15 August, 2010), the Lanaudière Festival, Canada (10 July – 8 August, 2010) and at the Reate Festival, Italy (20 August...... more

Conductor Kent Nagano has been nominated for the Gramophone Artist of the Year 2010 award for his Beethoven concerti-CD (ECM) and his Lohengrin-DVD (Decca). You can vote here until 31 August:...... more

The 2008/09 Bavarian State Opera season will see Kent Nagano conduct the new production of Alban Berg's Wozzeck. Stage director Andreas Kriegenburg tells of how life can turn into a horrifying nightmare.... more

Kent Nagano's third season as Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal began with the celebration of the Orchestra's 75th anniversary with Mahler's awe-inspiring "Symphony of a Thousand" at the beginning of...... more

Kent Nagano will tour Nunavik from 12-14 September together with members of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Nunavik comprises the northern third of the province of Quebec and the northern part of the Labrador peninsula). They...... more

The Montreal Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Kent Nagano present together with the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia and its intendant, Prof. Bruno Cagli and their Opera studio under the directorship of Renata Scotto...... more

The forthcoming season 2008/09 at the Bavarian State Opera marks the beginning of a new directorship. Nikolaus Bachler, an experienced and renowned theatre professional and current director of the Viennese Burgtheater will take...... more

At this years Munich Opera Festival under the artistic direction of Kent Nagano, he will conduct the premieres of Mozart's "Idomeneo" at the reopened Cuvilliéstheater and Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos" at the Prinzregententheater,...... more

Kent Nagano unveiled the programming for the 75th season of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) in the Auditorium at École Le Plateau in Montreal, where the first season (1934-1935) of the Société des Concerts...... more

Kent Nagano and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, now in their third season together, celebrated enormous success at this year's Salzburg Festival with Alexander Zemlinky's König Kandaules, the first opera production of the...... more

Performances in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow... more