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Concert

WAGNER'S TRISTAN & ISOLDE

The Wagner Society of Santa Fe invites you to attend its inaugural program focusing on Tristan and Isolde. It will feature soprano Jeanne-Michѐle Charbonnet and Joseph Illick on the piano.

The Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation.

The Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation contributes to the flourish of the opera community and generously supports the most important new opera productions and creators of our time.

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

The Festspielhaus offers audiences a programme of opera, concerts and ballet the whole year round. This second-largest opera house in Europe seats 2500; it has garnered a firm position on the European musical landscape. Leading artistes, orchestras and ballet companies look forward to appearing in Baden-Baden.

Concert

The Ile de France Children’s Choir

The ensemble founded in 1970 is one of the most distinguished children’s choruses in France, the IFCC is official choir of the Maurice Ravel Music Academy in Levallois, France, and is currently on its 2011 US west coast tour.

Communiqué

The French Conductor Frederic Chaslin appointed by the Santa Fe Opera

Conductor Maestro Chaslin has led important productions in major opera houses world-wide; performed as pianist; composed music for film and symphony orchestra; written an opera, Wuthering Heights...

Musical

West Side Story, The Original Broadway Classic

Only three directors worldwide have the official right from Robbins Rights Trust to produce this unique inheritance as an original production of West Side Story. The director and choreographer Joey McKneely is one of them. In an authentic yet fresh and new production, McKneely brings to life the original West Side Story.

Opera

Richard Wagner : RING of Nibelungen, Ring Festival 2003 & 2004

Valery Gergiev and the entire ensemble of the Mariinsky Theater will set off for the first time a "Ring-Cycle", produced in Russia and performed in the largest opera house in Germany, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

Festival

Herbert von Karajan Whitsun Festival 2003.

Since 1998, the Herbert von Karajan Whitsun Festival is celebrated in the largest German opera house, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. In memory of this Grand Maestro of the 20th century, the Festival invites young stars and experienced masters of classical music and opera.

Concert

Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony : The musical event of the season.

Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, under its music director Jan Latham-Koenig, will present Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony on Tuesday May 14, 2002 - a concert that will go down in the annals of music in France

Program Note

Tobias Picker, vibrant and original composer.

A Personal Reflection: An Essay on a Composer

Opera

"Black on White" by Heiner Goebbels

Based upon texts by Heiner Mueller, Edgar Allen Poe, Maurice Blanchot, Black On White has been performed more than 50 times, Berlin, Baden-Baden, Dresden, Hannover, Bochum, Paris, Mulhouse Barcelona, Sevilla, Wien, Lissabon, Edinburgh, London, Rimini, Adelaide, Brüssel, Amsterdam, New York, Lucerne, Taipeh...

Opera

Kassandra, by Michael Jarrell

After the novel of Christa Wolf
German version of Cassandre for actress, instrumental ensemble & electronics.

Program Note

Mozart - Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra, K.622

Bristly encounters with France’s official institutions were common in the life of Hector Berlioz, his travails with the Prix de Rome being but one chapter among many. Though sent to Paris by his father to study medicine, once there he succumbed to the lure of music, which had always been a passion.

Program Note

Berlioz - La Mort de Cléopâtre

In December 1778, writing from Mannheim, where the court orchestra was perhaps the finest and most advanced in Europe, Mozart lamented to his father, "Alas, if we only had clarinets! You cannot imagine the glorious effect of a symphony with flutes, oboes, and clarinets."

Program Note

Mahler - Symphony N°6

IBetween Mahler’s three vocal/choral symphonies with texts from the famous anthology of folk poetry Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Nos. 2, 3, and 4) and the vast affirmation of the choral Eighth Symphony, there stand three orchestral symphonies."