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Donald Runnicles Leads Cso in Program of Works by Elgar, Strauss, and Britten For Immediate Release: Press Contacts: April 29, 2016 Eileen Chambers, 312-294-3092 Photos Available By Request [email protected] DONALD RUNNICLES LEADS CSO IN PROGRAM OF WORKS BY ELGAR, STRAUSS, AND BRITTEN May 5, 7 and 10, 2016 CHICAGO—Conductor Donald Runnicles leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) in concerts on Thursday, May 5, at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, May 7, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. The program includes Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da requiem, Richard Strauss’ gripping tone poem Death and Transfiguration, and Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Britten’s Sinfonia da requiem, opens the program. Written in 1940 as a commission for the 2600th anniversary celebrations of the Japanese emperor Hirohito’s ruling dynasty, the piece went unused for the occasion due to its notably mournful tone. Britten’s beautifully orchestrated and strikingly powerful work was later premiered by the New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall in 1941. The program continues with one of Richard Strauss’ early tone poems, Death and Transfiguration, which traces a man’s journey through the pain of death to his eventual redemption. Concluding the evening’s program is Elgar’s Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 (Enigma) which contains 14 charming and witty musical portraits of the composer’s circle of acquaintances and one of Elgar himself. Arguably one of the most popular English classical works of the 20th century, the Enigma Variations was given its U.S. premiere by the CSO in 1902. Internationally renowned conductor Donald Runnicles serves as General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Chief Conductor of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival, as well as Principal Guest Conductor with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Runnicles, who is considered a leading Wagnerian, was conductor of the San Francisco Opera for 17 seasons. Runnicles has a wealth of both audio and video recordings to his name, his 2013 recording of Wagner arias with Jonas Kaufmann and the Deutsche Oper Berlin winning the 2013 Gramophone prize for best vocal recording. His latest release is a DVD of Janáček’s Jenůfa with the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Runnicles’ history with the CSO goes back to his subscription debut in 1995, with his most recent CSO concerts taking place in October of 2014. The Thursday, May 5 concert is part of CSO’s Classic Encounter series that includes a lively preconcert scene complete with food and drinks, as well as a multimedia presentation and conversation with a CSO musician hosted by WXRT and Radio Hall of Fame DJ Terri Hemmert. For the May 5 Classic Encounter, Hemmert welcomes CSO Viola Catherine Brubaker for the preconcert conversation. Single tickets for the Classic Encounter preconcert reception at 6:30 p.m. can be added to any concert ticket order for May 5. More information is here. Information on the full Classic Encounter series is available at cso.org/classicencounter. Tickets for all CSOA-presented concerts can be purchased by phone at 800-223-7114 or 312- 294-3000; online at cso.org, or at the Symphony Center box office: 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604. Discounted student tickets for select concerts can be purchased, subject to availability, online in advance or at the box office on the day of the concert. For group rates, please call 312-294- 3040. Artists, programs and prices are subject to change. Bank of America is the Global Sponsor of the CSO. # # # Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday, May 5, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, May 7, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles, conductor BRITTEN Sinfonia da requiem, Op. 20 STRAUSS, R. Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 ELGAR Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 (Enigma) Tickets: $30-$217 Classic Encounter Thursday, May 5, 2016, 6:30 p.m. Preconcert Reception Terri Hemmert, guest speaker Catherine Brubaker, CSO viola Tickets: $15 Donald Runnicles Donald Runnicles is concurrently the General Music Director (GMD) of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (DOB), Chief Conductor of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO), and Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson, Wyoming. Mr. Runnicles is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO). His career can be characterized by close, enduring and extensive relationships with a number of opera companies and orchestras; and his musical identity is defined by performances which are strongly centered in grand romantic opera and symphonic repertory of the late 19th and 20th centuries and the traditions from which the current opera and symphony institutions arose. Mr. Runnicles' 2009 appointment to the DOB connected one of today's leading Wagner interpreters with a premiere German repertory opera company with a grand, century-long Wagnerian history. As its GMD, Mr. Runnicles has primary responsibility for the musical forces of this historic company which produces each season an average of twenty-five productions and more than two hundred performances. This season, Mr. Runnicles himself will lead forty performances spread over eleven titles as well as symphonic concerts, including new productions of Verdi's Falstaff by the esteemed German director Christof Loy, and Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes by David Alden (co-produced with the English National Opera). Completing his season are revival performances of Verdi's Don Carlo and Otello, Janáček’s Jenůfa, Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and a complete Der Ring des Nibelungen, which has become a destination Ring cycle. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Mr. Runnicles returned home to take up post as Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO). He conducts five of the BBC SSO's main series programs in the orchestra's Glasgow home, City Halls Concert Hall, and leads concerts throughout Scotland and northern England, and each summer, also conducts two programs at the London Proms and for the Edinburgh International Festival. Through its BBC Radio 3 broadcasts, commercially released recordings on the Hyperion label, and acclaimed concerts at home and on tour, "the BBC SSO/Runnicles" has become one of the best known and most successful conductor/orchestra partnerships in the United Kingdom. His Atlanta Symphony association began with a 1999 guest engagement and quickly matured into an abiding musical relationship of ever-increasing depth and accomplishment. The ASO named him Principal Guest Conductor in 2001 at the same time as the appointment of current ASO music director Robert Spano. Together, they have shaped an era for the ASO defined by a rare symbiotic partnership and musical growth that the ASO has not seen since the time of Robert Shaw. He spends two to three weeks each season in Atlanta, and after a dozen years of making music together, has explored all corners of symphonic and choral repertory. He has been music director since 2005 of the Grand Teton Music Festival, which draws its musicians from many of North America's top orchestras who come to play, listen to and enjoy classical symphonic and chamber music amidst the natural beauty of the Grand Tetons. He leads four of the festival's seven orchestra weeks, and directs and participates as pianist in the many chamber concerts, recitals and other activities the festival offers to its local public and visitors who flock to Jackson and nearby Yellowstone Park in the summer. Beyond his annual commitments, Mr. Runnicles is active in symphonic repertoire and guest conducts some of the world's finest symphony orchestras. Though fully engaged with four titled positions, he finds time to maintain regular guest relationships with the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra, with whom he led the Orchestra’s 40th anniversary tour to China in June 2013. This season he returns in subscription to Philadelphia orchestra, leads the Pittsburgh Symphony, and returns to the Dresden Staatskapelle for a special concert with iconic pianist Radu Lupu. For seventeen seasons Mr. Runnicles was Music Director of the San Francisco Opera (1992-2008), having unexpectedly won the job after conducting two Wagner Ring cycles due to the withdrawal of a conducting colleague in 1990. During his long tenure, he led more than sixty productions which included company, national and indeed international highlights such as the world premieres of John Adams' Dr. Atomic and Conrad Sousa's Les Liaisons dangereuses, as well as the U.S. premieres of Olivier Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise and Aribert Reimann's Lear. Mr. Runnicles and the SFO made several commercial CD and DVD recordings and were seen often on national and international television. At the close of his tenure, he was given the San Francisco Opera Medal, the company's highest honor, previously given to luminaries such as Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne, Plácido Domingo and Sir Charles Mackerras. Mr. Runnicles last returned to the SFO in June 2011 to lead Francesca Zambello's new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, returning to the work and circumstance in which launched his relationship to the company two decades earlier. He next returns to San Francisco in June 2015 for a new Berlioz Les Troyens. Mr. Runnicles was born in Edinburgh and was educated there and at Cambridge. Following a season with the London Opera Centre, he began his career in Mannheim, Germany as répétiteur, and spent summers assisting in Bayreuth to further immerse his Wagnerian disposition. He spent those early years guest conducting throughout the German repertory theaters and orchestras. In 1988, he made his North American debut conducting Berg's Lulu at the Metropolitan Opera, jumping in for an indisposed James Levine; in 1989 he became General Music Director in Freiburg, Germany where he remained for three seasons.
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