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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 23, 2020

LOUIS LANGRÉE TO MAKE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC DEBUT CONDUCTING ALL-FRENCH PROGRAM

DEBUSSY’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY’s Nocturnes with Women’s Chorus from The Juilliard School RAVEL’s Shéhérazade with Mezzo-Soprano ISABEL LEONARD SCRIABIN’s Le Poème de l’extase

March 5, 7, and 10, 2020

Louis Langrée will make his New York Philharmonic debut conducting an all-French program featuring Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Nocturnes, the latter featuring a women’s chorus from The Juilliard School, directed by Pierre Vallet; Ravel’s Shéhérazade, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as soloist; and Scriabin’s Le Poème de l’extase. The program will take place Thursday, March 5, 2020, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 7 at 8:00 p.m.; and Tuesday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m.

Louis Langrée is a familiar figure on the Lincoln Center campus, as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and occasional guest conductor at The Metropolitan Opera.

Louis Langrée has been acclaimed for his interpretations of music from his native France. The Washington Post called his conducting of Debussy “some of the most sensitive and alluring Debussy I’ve heard … his Debussy surrenders gloriously to shifting color and narrative flow. His [Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune] was uncommonly languorous and delicate, its phrases wafting up and swooning back down into a shimmering orchestral fabric.”

Before their New York Philharmonic performances, Louis Langrée and Isabel Leonard will collaborate in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra — where Mr. Langrée is music director — and Ms. Leonard will perform Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The New York Times called her interpretation of Shéhérazade “alluringly sensual” when she sang it with The Met Orchestra in June 2019.

Biographies Louis Langrée, Isabel Leonard, Women’s Chorus from The Juilliard School directed by Pierre Vallet, New York Philharmonic

Tickets Single tickets start at $35 (ticket prices subject to change). A limited number of $18 tickets for select concerts may be available to students within 10 days of the performance at nyphil.org/rush, or in person the day of (valid identification required).

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Saturday; and noon to 5:00 p.m. Sunday. Tickets may also be purchased at the David Geffen Hall Box Office. The Box Office opens at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at noon on Sunday. On performance evenings, the Box Office closes one-half hour after performance time; other evenings it closes at 6:00 p.m.

For press tickets, contact Lanore Carr at (212) 875-5714 or [email protected].

Event Listing

New York Philharmonic

David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

Thursday, March 5, 2020, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, 2020, 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Louis Langrée*, conductor Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano Women’s Chorus from The Juilliard School Pierre Vallet, chorus master

DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY Nocturnes RAVEL Shéhérazade SCRIABIN Le Poème de l’extase

* New York Philharmonic debut

ALL PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

* * * These performances are supported by Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.

* * * Louis Langrée’s debut with the New York Philharmonic is made possible by the Kurt Masur Fund for the Philharmonic, an endowment fund created to honor the accomplishments of the Philharmonic’s Music Director Emeritus, the late Kurt Masur.

* * * Citi. Preferred Card of the New York Philharmonic.

* * * Programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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Deirdre Roddin, Associate Director, Public Relations (212) 875-5701; [email protected]

Jen Luzzo, Manager, Public Relations (212) 875-5707; [email protected]

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