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19. September 2015

ARTE concert worldwide streaming from Hamburg (September 2015)

ARTE concert worldwide streaming from Hamburg, in cooperation with Binnenalster Filmfest and City Management Hamburg: Berlioz’ Les Troyens on 19 September at 8.45 pm (MESZ):

http://concert.arte.tv/de/berlioz-troyens-staatsoper-hamburg

(available until 19 March 2016)

The Hamburg State Opera opens the season 2015/16 with Berlioz‘ opera Les Troyens staged by German director Michael Thalheimer and conducted by Kent Nagano, new General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.

19 September                          

Hamburg, State Opera             

Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra

Berlioz: Les Troyens    Premiere

Torsten Kerl – Enée, Catherine Naglestad – Cassandra,

Kartal Karagedik – Chorèbe,

Alin Anca – Panthée, Burak Bilgili – Narbal,

Markus Nykänen – Iopas, Christina Gansch – Ascagne,

Elena Zhidkova – Didon, Katja Pieweck – Anna

 

Michael Thalheimer – Director

Further performances: 23, 26 September, 1, 4, 9, 14 October

The NDR radio will broadcast live from 5.55 pm (MESZ) on NDR Kultur.

More information here: 

Hamburg State Opera

Filmfest Hamburg

Concert.arte.tv

NDR

13. September 2015

Kent Nagano starts his new position in Hamburg (September 2015)

On Sunday, 13 September in Hamburg, Kent Nagano will conduct his first Akademiekonzert in the church St. Michaelis („Michel“) with the Chamber Orchester of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. It will be his first concert within his new position: Kent Nagano is the new Hamburg General Music Director of the State Opera and Chiefconductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.

Find her more information about the concert.


On Saturday, 19 September Kent Nagano will conduct his first Opera premiere: Berlioz‘ Les Troyens, brought on stage by German director Michael Thalheimer.

Find here more information about the premiere.

18. August 2015

Kent Nagano with Göteborgs Symfoniker at Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm (August 2015)

Kent Nagano, Artistic Advisor and Principal Buest Conductor of the Gothenborg Symphony Orchestra since 2013, is going to perform with the orchestra at the Baltic Sea Festival in Berwaldhallen / Stockholm on 24 August. The orchestra will play works bei Sibelius and Strauss. Clarinet player Martin Fröst will also present the clarinet concerto by Carl Nielsen.
The same program can already be heard on 21 August in Göteborgs Konzerthuset.

Please read more about the program and the Baltic Sea Festival here.

30. April 2015

Season Announcement 2015/2016 in Hamburg (April 2015)

Kent Nagano, future General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, Georges Delnon, the future Intendant of the Hamburg State Opera, John Neumeier, Director and Chief Choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet, and Detlef Meierjohann, Managing Director of the Hamburg State Opera presented the 2015/2016 season in a press conference today. In keeping with the meaningful tradition of the three institutions, the new leadership team has set the goal of developing an individual and recognizable profile that spans the bridge between considered cultivation of traditional repertoire and a distinctive passion for new forms.

The Hamburg State Opera will open the season with Berlioz’s opera “Les Troyens”, with Michael Thalheimer giving his directorial debut and Kent Nagano raising his baton for the first time at the opera house. Alongside this production, the revitalized opera stabile will not only host Christoph Marthaler’s “Isoldes Abendbrot”, featuring the mezzosoprano Anne Sofie von Otter, but will also present the world premiere of “Weine night, singe” by Michael Wertmüller, directed by Jette Steckel.

Love and the experience of human agony are the overriding themes of both of the Hamburg Ballet’s premieres in the 2015/2016 season. John Neumeier will choreograph the story of the Italian actress Eleonore Duse and will also bring Messiaen’s symphony “Turangalîla” to the stage, conducted by Kent Nagano. Included in the season’s numerous repertoire productions is “A Cinderella Story” as well as the “Saint Matthew Passion”, set to J.S. Bach’s poignant music.

Hamburg’s new General Music Director Kent Nagano and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra will start their first season together by paying homage to great composers of Hamburg. The 188th concert season will be characterised by classical composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Berlioz and Mahler together with works by contemporary artists such as Unsuk Chin, Toshio Hosokawa and Peter Ruzicka. Kent Nagano will conduct seven concert programmes, while guest conductors include Philippe Herreweghe and Lothar Zagrosek.

The season brochures for the three institutions can be viewed online under

www.staatsoper-hamburg.de

www.hamburgballett.de

www.philharmoniker-hamburg.de

21. March 2015

BBC Interview with Kent Nagano now online available (March 2015)

The BBC interview with Kent Nagano, which was conducted in January 2015 on the occasion of his concert with BBC Symphony Orchestra, is now available for streaming on BBC Radio 3 Music Matters.

Kent Nagano talks about the influences of his musical education, about his associations with composers like Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen and also about his views on New Music and its importance for the future of classical music in general.

Please click here to listen to the interview.

13. March 2015

CD published: Kent Nagano and Audi Youth Choir Academy (March 2015)

Together with Kent Nagano, the  Audi Youth Choir Academy and the Munich Opera Horns, label Farao has published a new CD.For Kent Nagano supporting the young musical talents is a very personal affair of the heart.  “The Audi Youth Choir Academy is an investition into the future”, Nagano states. “The young musicians have a wonderful passion for music, pretty voices and are willing to make music together earnestly and properly.”

As part of the first Vorsprung Festival, carried out in 2014 under Kent Nagano’s leadership, the concerts with the Audi Youth Choir Academy together with leading international orchestras took place.

Tracklist:

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Vier Gesänge für Frauenchor mit Begleitung von zwei Hörnern und Harfe, op. 17

Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Jagdlieder – Fünf Gesänge für vierstimmigen Männerchor und vier Hörner, op. 137

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Nachtgesang im Walde für vier Männerstimmen und vier Hörner, D 913

Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971): Unterschale – Vier russische Bauernlieder für Frauenchor mit Begleitung von vier Hörnern

Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Parsifal, III. Akt „Karfreitagszauber“ – Arr. Franz Kanefzky

Richard Strauss (1864-1949): Rosenkavalier-Suite – Arr. Franz Kanefzky

30. January 2015

Kent Nagano conducts Rihm’s Tutuguri in London (January 2015)

After more than 5 years, Kent Nagano is returning to London on 31 January 2015 to conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Wolfgang Rihm’s “Tutuguri” – a work for large orchestra, percussionists, taped chorus and speaker. The performance at the Barbican in London is the UK premiere of Rihm’s “Poeme danse”. Kent Nagano has conducted this monumental piece before to great acclaim – at the rostrum of the BR Radio Symphony Orchestra Munich in 2012.

The concert is part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s “Total immersion: Percussion” – an interactive day featuring masterclasses, performances, talks and workshops at the Barbican, London. Please click here for more information.

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