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20. April 2017

Kent Nagano conducts Opera piccola at Hamburg State Opera (April 2017)

Today this year’s opera piccola at the Hamburg State Opera “Erzittre, feiger Bösewicht” will be premiered, staged by opera director Georges Delnon. Music Director of the new production will be General Music Director Kent Nagano. The piece for adolescents is based on Mozart’s opera “Magic Flute”.

Further performances will be on 22, 23, 25, 27, 30 April as well as on 3, 6 and 7 May.

Find here more information on the new production.

 

24. February 2017

Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal receive Opus price (February 2017)

This year the Opus prize of the Conseil Québécois de la musique was given to the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano in three categories.

Kategorie Disque de l’année – musique classique, romantique, postromantique, impressionniste:

Intégrale des concertos pour violon de Saint-Saëns, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Andrew Wan, violon, Kent Nagano, chef d’orchestre, ANALEKTA

Kategorie Disque de l’année – musique moderne, contemporaine:

L’Aiglon, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano, chef d’orchestre, A.-C. Gillet, M. Barrard, É. Dupuis, P. Sly, P. Charbonneau, I. Bell, T. Duncan, J.-M. Richer, H. Guilmette, M.-N. Lemieux, J. Boulianne, K. McLaren, Choeur de l’OSM, Andrew McGill, DECCA

Kategorie Production de l’année – Jeune Public:

Le Bal des enfants – L’aventure espagnole de Don Quichotte, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal,  Kent Nagano, chef d’orchestre, 27 février 2016

Finde more information on the Opus Prize and the winners here.

17. January 2017

Elbphilharmonie opening in Hamburg: Special concert with Kent Nagano (January 2017)

On 13 January 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg will give their first concert in the Elbphilharmonie on the occasion of the opening festivities. Kent Nagano has assigned composing a piece for this special occasion to Jörg Widmann: “ARCHE”, a large scale piece for vocal soloists, organ, choirs and orchestra.

The concert will be broadcast live at 20:00 on German radio channel NDR Kultur.

Find more information on the concert here.

5. January 2017

Kent Nagano conducts Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (January 2017)

Kent Nagano will conduct the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich on 7 and 8 January 2017.

Pianist Daniil Trifonov will play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in c major. Furthermore Messiaen’s „Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà“ will be performed.

Find more information here.

17. December 2016

Kent Nagano: Concert with OSM on medici.tv (December 2016)

In October 2016 Kent Nagano conducted concerts with the OSM, at which two world premieres by José Evangelista and Robert Normandeau could be witnessed. Schumann’s cello concerto a major, op. 129 and Strauss’ “A hero’s life” were also presented.

Medici.tv has recorded the concert on 21 October. The Stream is available here.

17. September 2016

Kent Nagano on tour in South America (September 2016)

Kent Nagano is touring in South America with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg.

It is the first long tour for the Philharmonic State Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Kent Nagano. Concerts will take place, among others, in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile and Sao Paolo. On tour the orchestra will play works by Strauss, Brahms, Wagner and Bruckner. The program also includes opera: In the Teatro Mayor in Bogotá, Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde will be performed.

The final concert of the tour will present the performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana together with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá.

Please find all concerts here.

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