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1 Berlioz's the Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ’S THE DAMNATION OF FAUST 1 What’s On April — July Sarah Chang Plays Bruch Anzac Tribute Beethoven: the 1808 FRIDAY 10 APRIL THURSDAY 23 APRIL Vienna Concert SATURDAY 11 APRIL FRIDAY 24 APRIL SATURDAY 2 MAY MONDAY 13 APRIL On the eve of the 100th anniversary With a line-up of internationally Following her enormously popular of the Gallipoli landings, Diego acclaimed soloists and the Royal concerts in 2013, celebrated violinist Matheuz conducts Beethoven’s Melbourne Philharmonic Choir Sarah Chang returns to perform Ninth Symphony, and incidental joining the Orchestra for this rare Bruch’s famous Violin Concerto in music to Goethe’s Egmont. With event, we invite you to sit back G minor. Conducted by MSO Chief the MSO Chorus and Australian and and relax in the company of one of Conductor Sir Andrew Davis. international soloists. music’s greatest creative minds. Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 Britten’s War Requiem Yuja Wang plays Prokofiev THURSDAY 22 MAY THURSDAY 11 JUNE THURSDAY 23 JULY FRIDAY 23 MAY FRIDAY 12 JUNE FRIDAY 24 JULY MONDAY 25 MAY Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, SATURDAY 25 JULY One of the world’s most sought- a haunting piece interweaving Chinese piano superstar Yuja Wang after composers, Matthias Pintscher, the traditional Latin Mass for the brings her acclaimed virtuosity to returns to conduct the Australian Dead with the works of First World Prokofiev’s tempestuous Second premiere of Idyll, an MSO co- War poet Wilfred Owen, is paired Piano Concerto. Also featuring commission, in a program that with the profoundly moving Elegy Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave and also includes Beethoven’s Seventh in memoriam Rupert Brooke by Brahms’ luminous fourth and final Symphony and Saint-Saëns’ Third Frederick Kelly. symphony. Violin Concerto. MelbourneSymphony @MelbourneSymphonyOrchestra Download our free app at mso.com.au/msolearn Sign up for our monthly e-news at @MelbSymphony TheMSOrchestra mso.com.au and receive special offers from the MSO and our partners. Welcome to Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Let us forth!/Come and taste life and With a reputation for excellence, The MSO reaches an even larger pleasure./While every sense shall versatility and innovation, the audience through its regular concert glow with a joy beyond measure. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra broadcasts on ABC Classic FM, Thus, with such tempting is Australia’s oldest orchestra, also streamed online, and through pleasantries, does Méphistophèlés established in 1906. The Orchestra recordings on Chandos and ABC lure Faust into his satanic web. This currently performs live to more Classics. The MSO’s Education devilish entreaty proves as irresistible than 200,000 people annually, in and Community Engagement to the lovelorn Faust as Goethe’s concerts ranging from subscription initiatives deliver innovative and epic poem did to Hector Berlioz. performances at its home, Hamer engaging programs to audiences Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its of all ages, including MSO Learn, an Welcome to this special annual free concerts at Melbourne’s educational iPhone and iPad app performance of The Damnation largest outdoor venue, the Sidney designed to teach children about of Faust – an operatic oratorio Myer Music Bowl. the inner workings of an orchestra. described by its master composer as a ‘Légende dramatique’. Such Sir Andrew Davis gave his inaugural The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra are the complexities of its scoring concerts as Chief Conductor of the is funded principally by the Australian and fearsome singing demands, the MSO in April 2013, having made his Government through the Australia work is rarely performed. But it is one debut with the Orchestra in 2009. Council, its arts funding and of those huge pieces that positively Highlights of his tenure have included advisory body, and is generously demands to be performed. One of collaborations with artists including supported by the Victorian its foremost interpreters is MSO Chief Bryn Terfel, Emanuel Ax and Truls Government through Creative Conductor Sir Andrew Davis, whom Mørk, the release of recordings Victoria, Department of Economic we proudly welcome back for his of music by Percy Grainger and Development, Jobs, Transport and third season. Eugene Goossens, a 2014 European Resources. The MSO is also funded Festivals tour, and a multi-year cycle by the City of Melbourne, its Principal The Damnation of Faust is of of Mahler’s Symphonies. Partner, Emirates, corporate sponsors symphonic strength and dramatic The MSO also works each season and individual donors, trusts and intensity, and is the true test of foundations. orchestra, chorus and soloists. To do with Principal Guest Conductor it justice, Sir Andrew has assembled Diego Matheuz, Associate the finest cast available. The singers Conductor Benjamin Northey and include the incomparable Welsh the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, who returns Chorus. Recent guest conductors after his landmark concerts in 2013 to the MSO have included Thomas to sing Méphistophèlés. Faust is Adès, John Adams, Tan Dun, sung by tenor Andrew Staples, and Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Mark Marguerite by Croatian mezzo- Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz and soprano Renata Pokupić. Simone Young. The Orchestra has also collaborated with non-classical The other vital ingredient in The musicians including Burt Bacharach, Damnation of Faust is the chorus, Ben Folds, Nick Cave, Sting and whose role is not only indispensable Tim Minchin. but almost omnipresent. For this performance the MSO Chorus, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is joined by the men of the Sydney Philharmonia Choir. I hope you enjoy this performance of one of the most astonishing and extravagant works in the repertoire. André Gremillet Managing Director, MSO BERLIOZ’S THE DAMNATION OF FAUST 3 Fall in love with every journey Rediscover the romance of travel with up to 1,600 channels of music, TV and movies. Let our inflight entertainment take you places you won’t find on a map. Principal Partner of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. emirates.com/au Enjoy our generous baggage allowance w Gourmet cuisine w Over 140 destinations worldwide ‘Airline of the year’ 2013 Skytrax World Airline Awards. EMI0310_MSO_176x121_v4.indd 1 8/05/14 3:52 PM BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEM Sir Andrew Davis conducts this haunting piece, and the profoundly moving Elegy in memoriam Rupert Brooke by Frederick Septimus Kelly. Ian Bostridge tenor 11 & 12 June at 8pm BOOK NOW Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall MSO.COM.AU | (03) 9929 9600 Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust ABOUT THE ARTISTS Melbourne Symphony Sir Andrew Davis Renata Pokupić Orchestra conductor mezzo-soprano (Marguerite) Sir Andrew Davis Sir Andrew Davis is Chief Conductor Croatian mezzo-soprano Renata conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Pokupić is praised for her engaging Renata Pokupić Orchestra. He recently extended and expressive interpretation of mezzo-soprano (Marguerite) his contract as the Music Director Baroque, Classical and coloratura and Principal Conductor of the repertoire. Recent operatic Andrew Staples Lyric Opera of Chicago through and concert highlights include tenor (Faust) to the 2020/2021 season, having performances at Royal Opera been appointed in 2000. He is also House, Covent Garden, Opéra de Bryn Terfel Conductor Laureate of the Toronto Lille, Washington National Opera, bass-baritone (Méphistophélès) Symphony and BBC Symphony Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Shane Lowrencev Orchestras. A former organ scholar des Champs-Élysées, Hofkapelle bass (Brander) at King’s College, Cambridge, he Esterházy, Göttingen International has conducted all of the world’s Handel Festival, Scottish Chamber Dimity Shepherd major orchestras as well as at Orchestra, Academy of Ancient mezzo soprano (solo in the leading opera houses and festivals. Music, and an extensive tour final chorus) His tenure as Chief Conductor of the with the Orchestra of the Age of BBC Symphony, whom he led at the Enlightenment, ‘Tribute to Lorraine Melbourne Symphony Hunt Lieberson’. Orchestra Chorus Proms and on tour to Europe, the USA and Asia, was the longest since Highlights in 2014/15 include a Jonathan Grieves-Smith that of the Orchestra’s founder Sir return to Wigmore Hall in recital MSO chorus master Adrian Boult. with Roger Vignoles, Berlioz’s He was made a Commander of the Roméo et Juliette with the Bergen Men of the Sydney Philharmonic Orchestra, Cherubino Philharmonia Choirs British Empire in 1992, and a Knight Bachelor in 1999. (The Marriage of Figaro) with Flemish Brett Weymark Opera and the Gulbenkian, Lisbon, and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Collegium Vocale Gent. This marks music director her Australian debut. — Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust, op.24 This concert is two hours 20 minutes duration with one 20 minute interval, which will take place immediately following the conclusion of Part 2. Saturday night’s concert will be broadcast and streamed live around Australia on ABC Classic FM Pre-concert talk Join Professor Kerry Murphy, University of Melbourne for a free pre-concert talk prior to each performance at 7pm in the Hamer Hall stalls foyer. BERLIOZ’S THE DAMNATION OF FAUST 5 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Andrew Staples Bryn Terfel Shane Lowrencev tenor (Faust) bass-baritone (Méphistophélès) bass (Brander) Andrew Staples sang as a chorister in The Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Shane Lowrencev was born in St Paul’s Cathedral before winning a Terfel made his operatic debut as Melbourne and studied in Melbourne choral scholarship to King’s College Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) for Welsh and London. In 2008, he won the Cambridge, where he gained a National Opera, and has since Australian Singing Competition’s degree in Music. performed at La Monnaie; Santa Opera Awards. Fe Opera; the BBC Proms; La Scala; He has performed with the Shane is a full-time principal artist Royal Opera House; Metropolitan Berlin Philharmonic, Swedish with Opera Australia. Recent Opera; and the Bavarian State Radio Symphony Orchestra, highlights have included Scarpia in Opera.
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