Next Wednesday, in his new role as Music Director of Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim leads the house’s orchestra, chorus, and an all-star cast in a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. This new staging by modernist Canadian director Robert Carsen boasts an extraordinary ensemble of singers, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei in the title role, Russian soprano Anna Netrebko in her La Scala debut as Donna Anna, Welsh bass-baritone …
As Daniel Barenboim launches his tenure as Music Director of Milan’s Teatro alla Scala with a production of Don Giovanni, he also highlights the talents of the house’s resident chorus and orchestra by conducting works by Schönberg and the last five symphonies by Beethoven. On December 11, Barenboim and the Filarmonica della Scala perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” and Symphony No. 5. Barenboim complements Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and …
Daniel Barenboim leads his first symphonic performance of the season at the legendary Teatro alla Scala, where he was recently named Music Director, on November 3. For the concert, Barenboim conducts the Sinfonico del Teatro alla Scala in Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel, the overture to Verdi’s opera I Vespiri Siciliani, and a trio of works by Debussy: La Mer, le Jet d’eau and Trois Ballades de Francois Villon, with soprano Anna Prohaska as guest soloist. Barenboim then conducts the Sinfonico …
Daniel Barenboim leads the Berlin Staatsoper in three performances of Alban Berg’s 20th century masterpiece, Wozzeck, beginning on October 26 at the Schiller Theater. The production by Andrea Breth, which debuted in April 2011 to rave reviews, receives encore performances on October 28 and 30. Much of the cast from last season’s debut performances returns for this revival, including German soprano Nadja Michaels as Marie and baritone Georg Nigl in the …
Milan’s Teatro alla Scala announced today that Daniel Barenboim will become its next Music Director, beginning a five-year term effective December 1, 2011. Since 2006, Barenboim has served as Principal Guest Conductor and "Maestro Scaligero" at the 233-year-old Italian theater. The Argentine-born Israeli maestro will hold this position in addition to his post as Music Director of the Berlin Staatsoper and Staatskapelle Berlin and his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Click here to read more
This season’s Barenboim Cycle examines the piano and vocal works Franz Liszt and Franz Schubert in five concerts, all featuring Barenboim at the piano. The series kicks off on October 7 with an evening of music by Franz Liszt at the Schiller Theater, the Staatsoper’s temporary home. For this program, Barenboim is joined by tenor Jonas Kauffmann, stepping in for bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, and soprano Dorothea Röschmann in a sampling of …