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From 9 – 19 September Kent Nagano and musicians of the OSM will go on tour to the very north of Quebec and will trace a path from the arctic down through Quebec’s interior toward the Côte-Nord. The chamber opera Chaakapesh of the young Canadian composer Matthew Ricketts was commissioned especially for this upcoming tour. 10 years after their first visit, Kent Nagano and the OSM will visit Inuit, Cree and Innu villages and will perform Chaakapesh, composed for five languages (Cree, Inuktitut, Innu, French and English). Cree playwright Tomson Highway provided the idea and wrote the libretto. It is based on a Cree legend, similar to the biblical Noah story. Find here an interview with the composer Matthew Ricketts about the OSM commission.
Find here the performances dates and venues of the tour:
10 September
Kuujjuaq
12 September
Salluit
14 September
Kuujjuarapik
17 September
Oujé-Bougoumou
18 September
Mashteuiatsh
19 September
Uashat mak Mani-Utenam
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Kent Nagano present this year’s Virée Classique in Montréal from 29 August until 2 September.
The festival will offer concerts with soloists like violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaïa or pianists Paul Lewis and Alexei Volodi.
Find here more information on the concerts and the dates.
The OSM has created a trailer announcing the festival. You can click on it here.
On 25 August 2018 – Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday – BBC Radio 3 will broadcast at 13.00 British time an interview with Kent Nagano in a special edition of “Inside Music”. Principal subject of the interview is Leonard Bernstein, but Kent Nagano also talks about other works, such as J.S. Bachs Goldberg Variations or Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus by Olivier Messiaen.
Overview:
25 August 2018, 13.00 BST
BBC Radio 3, “Inside Music”
Link to the show
On 16 August 2018 the new production of “The Bassarids” staged by Krzysztof Warlikowski will celebrate its premiere. Kent Nagano will stand at the rostrum of Vienna Philharmonics in the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg.
Further performances will take place on 19, 23 and 26 August.
Find here further information about this production.
The film “La mission de Kent Nagano” by Inge Kloepfer and Nadja Frenz (NDR/ARTE 2017) is available on YouTube. The documentary is in German, French and English language.
Clicke here, to watch the film.
Find here information about the tv documentary by production company Vincent.TV.
On Friday, 27 July at 11.00 a.m. (CET) the official opening ceremony of this year’s Salzburg Festival will take place in the Felsenreitschule. On this occasion, Kent Nagano will conduct the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg with works by Richard Strauss, Gottfried von Einem and Leonard Bernstein.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on TV (ORF 2). Find more information on this here.
Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal are currently in Europe and will give concerts in Kracow and at the Salzburg Festival, presenting Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion on the occasion of the composer’s 85. birthday anniversary. The concert in Kracow is on 18 July.
The concert in Salzburg on 20 July will be the festival opening within the Ouverture spirituelle. The OSM will celebrate its festival debut with this concert.
Find here information on the tour on the webpages of OSM.
On 5 and 6 July Kent Nagano will stand at the rostrum of Munich Herkulessaal to conduct the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. On the program will be Messiaen’s “Chronochromie” and Bruckner’s Mess No. 2 in e minor.
The concert on 6 July will be broadcast live on BR Klassik. Find here further information about this.
General Music Director of Hamburg Kent Nagano will conduct his first open air concert on the Town Hall square in Hamburg on 25 August. “This concert shall be a musical gift to the citizens of our city”, says Kent Nagano.
On the program will be works by Brahms, Bernstein and Rachmaninow. The entry is free.
On 26 and 27 August four Academy concerts will take place in the Town Hall of Hamburg, also under the baton of Kent Nagano .
Find here further information about those concerts.