This October, Daniel Barenboim will conduct Wagner’s Die Walküre and Siegfried at the Staatsoper Berlin, kicking off a season-long celebration of the master opera composer’s bicentennary at the German house. On October 3, 6, and 10, Barenboim leads the debut performances of Guy Cassier’s production of Siegfried. On October 4, 7, and 14, the maestro performs Die Walküre with the ensemble in another Cassier production. In March 2013, Barenboim and the Staatsoper Berlin will present …
German tenor Jonas Kaufmann will join Daniel Barenboim at Berlin’s Philharmonie on September 30 for a performance of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. The classic song cycle depicts the unrequited love of a wandering miller, with poetry by Wilhelm Müller set to music by the master lieder composer, Franz Schubert. The intimate recital is part of an ongoing series of solo and chamber concerts presented by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. …
On September 16 and 18, Music Director Daniel Barenboim leads Staatskapelle Berlin in its season opening concerts at the Philharmonie Berlin. Now in his twentieth year as head of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, Barenboim will conduct the ensemble in an inaugural program that features Bruckner’s magnificent Ninth Symphony. The American cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins the Orchestra as guest soloist for Bruch’s Kol Nidrei …
This month, house Music Director Daniel Barenboim takes the Teatro alla Scala on tour across Europe and to Moscow for performances at the historic Bolshoi Theatre. The maestro leads the Filarmonica e Coro della Scala and a superb ensemble of soloists in Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem at home in Milan (August 27) and then on tour in Lucerne (August 29) and Salzburg (September 1) . All performances are joined by Soprano Anja Harteros, mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca, tenor Jonas Kaufmann, and …
This week Daniel Barenboim explores the music of Franz Schubert in recitals at the Salzburg Festival and the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. The maestro returns to Salzburg for three all-Schubert programs . On August 15 , he performs the Piano Sonatas in G Major (D894) and C minor (D958). On August 20 , he plays Four Impromptus (D935) and the Piano Sonata in A Major (D959). Barenboim rounds off his Salzburg Festival appearances on August 24 with Four Impromptus (D899) …
London, Royal Albert Hall, July 27, 2012 I want to tell you two things today before we go, and this is why I allowed myself to come back and shake everybody’s hand, because it has been a most remarkable experience for me to do this complete cycle with this orchestra in this hall for the Proms. And today, we have the added joy of having four wonderful soloists – and …
Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – the much-lauded ensemble of young Arab and Israeli musicians that Barenboim co-founded in 1999 with the late Palestinian-born literary scholar Edward Said – embark on an eight-city European tour this summer as part of their multi-year Beethoven for All project, which seeks to take the composer’s message of common humanity to audiences around the world. Highlights of the tour include a concert at Castel Gandolfo at the invitation of Pope Benedict XVI (July 11), a …
At the personal invitation of Pope Benedict XVI, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will give a private concert before the Holy Father on July 11 to mark the Pontiff’s Saint Day. The concert will take place in the historic Palazzo Pontificio in the Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence near Rome. The concert, which takes place during the Divan’s Beethoven for All European tour, will include Beethoven’s Fifth …
Currently conducting Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper Berlin’s Schiller Theater through July 6, Daniel Barenboim will lead the Staatskapelle Berlin in two Berlin concerts that showcase the music of Tchaikovsky and Brahms, performed by celebrated interpreters of their work. On July 1, pianist Yefim Bronfman joins Barenboim and the Staatskapelle for its annual “Staatskapelle für Alle” concert in Berlin’s Bebelplatz. The open-air concert’s all-Tchaikovsky program will include the composer’s First …
From June 24 to July 6, Daniel Barenboim conducts five sold-out performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper Berlin’s Schiller Theater in a production by Claus Guth. Christopher Maltman portrays the opera’s iconic title character alongside Maria Bengtsson as Donna Anna, Dorothea Röschmann as Donna Elvira, Erwin Schrott as Leporello, and Anna Prohaska as Zerlina. This Don Giovanni production is Barenboim’s second of the year, having previously conducted the opera to …