Prior to the Orchestra’s 2013-14 opening night on September 15, Daniel Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle Berlin in two concerts at St. Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre. On September 8 , Maestro continues his celebration of Wagner’s bicentennial with the Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, as well as Richard Strauss’s tone poem Ein Heldenleben. The following evening features Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony No. 8 paired with Elgar’s Symphony …

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In an extensive interview with Sir David Frost of Al Jazeera, Daniel Barenboim discusses his career, the joy of making music, and the evolution of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which he leads during its summer workshop – currently in session in Seville – and beginning August 8, on tour across Europe. Watch the full interview here.

Daniel Barenboim will conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin in the first complete Wagner Ring Cycle at the BBC Proms this summer, marking the Maestro’s Wagner opera debut in the United Kingdom. Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will be joined by roster of singers that include Nina Stemme, Bryn Terfel, and Anna Larsson – among many others – for the performances, which run from July 22 to 28. Learn more about the performances and find tickets here . This summer’s performances …

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This summer, Daniel Barenboim and the musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will come together for their annual summer workshop in Spain and their 2013 European tour, giving 12 concerts in ten cities across Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. The 2013 tour will see the world premiere performances of compositions by Saed Haddad and Chaya Czernowin, and will also mark the bicentennials of Verdi and Wagner with programs that …

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July 1 sees the international release of the latest album from Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, focusing on Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. Recorded live in a gripping performance at the 2009 BBC Proms, the concert marked the tenth anniversary of the orchestra, co-founded by Barenboim and Edward Said in 1999, and showed the players at their virtuosic best. In a review of the live performance, the Guardian wrote that …

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Beginning Monday, June 17, Daniel Barenboim takes the podium of the Teatro alla Scala to lead two complete Ring cycles at the Milan house. The La Scala Music Director conducts a leading roster of singers in Guy Cassier’s staging of Wagner’s operatic epic.  Video: La Scala’s Ring behind-the-scenes  

Daniel Barenboim reunites with the musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Salzburg, Austria for a May 20 performance of Brahms’s magnificent Requiem at the Whitsun Festival. Joining Barenboim and the Divan Orchestra will be premier soloists, who include Whitsun Festival artistic director and mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and bass René Pape. 

This month, Daniel Barenboim complements his orchestral and operatic performances with two unique performances in Berlin and Copenhagen. On April 12, mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and Barenboim present a recital of art songs and chansons by Ravel, Debussy, Haydn, and Bartók at Berlin’s Schiller Theater. Later this month on April 20, Daniel Barenboim returns to the stage of Copenhagen’s DR Koncerthuset for the first time since debuting there four years ago. For his Danish recital this April, Maestro Barenboim presents …

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Yesterday Daniel Barenboim led the Staatskapelle Berlin and tenor Rolando Villazón in the European premiere of Elliott Carter’s A Sunbeam’s Architecture.  "I am thrilled that this cycle saw its successful European premiere," said Maestro. "I am happy for the Staatskapelle, for Rolando, and especially in memoriam of my friend Elliott Carter." Carter’s song cycle for tenor and orchestra is set to poems by E.E. Cummings. The late American composer’s composition …

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Next week Daniel Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle Berlin in the European premiere of Elliott Carter’s A Sunbeam’s Architecture at Berlin’s Konzerthaus (April 8) and Konzerthaus (April 9) with guest soloist Rolando Villazón. The late American composer’s song cycle for tenor and orchestra draws its texts from poems by E.E. Cummings and was "made to show the poet in a period when the telephone was still a novelty and the First …

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