Season 20102010----20112011 The Philadelphia Orchestra Thursday, January 6, at 8:00 Friday, January 77,, at 2:00 Saturday, January 88,, at 8:00 Sunday, January 99,, at 2:00 Yannick NézetNézet----SéguinSéguin Conductor Lucy Crowe Soprano Birgit Remmert Mezzo-soprano James Taylor Tenor Andrew FosterFoster----WilliamsWilliams Bass-baritone The Philadelphia Singers Chorale David Hayes Music Director Debussy Nocturnes I. Clouds II. Festivals III. Sirens Intermission Mozart/completed Süssmayr Requiem, K. 626 I. Introitus: Requiem II. Kyrie III. Sequentia 1. Dies irae 2. Tuba mirum 3. Rex tremendae 4. Recordare 5. Confutatis 6. Lacrimosa IV. Offertorium 1. Domine Jesu 2. Hostias V. Sanctus VI. Benedictus VII. Agnus Dei VIII. Communio: Lux aeterna This program runs approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes. The January 6 concert is sponsored by Medcomp. The January 8 concert is sponsored by Ballard Spahr LLP. Since his European conducting debut in 2004, Yannick Nézet-Séguin has become one of the most sought-after conductors on today’s international classical music scene, widely praised by audiences, critics, and artists alike for his musicianship, dedication, and charisma. A native of Montreal, he made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 2008 and last June was named the Orchestra’s next music director, a post he takes up with the 2012-13 season. Artistic director and principal conductor of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain since 2000, he became music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic in 2008. Recent engagements have included concerts with the Vienna and Los Angeles philharmonics, the Boston Symphony, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Orchestre National de France and, earlier this month, a tour with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and his Berlin Philharmonic debut. This season also includes debuts with the Chicago Symphony, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra, and La Scala; Strauss’s Salome for Montreal Opera; Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Baden-Baden; and Vienna Philharmonic projects at the 2011 Salzburg, Montreux, and Lucerne festivals. Following his Metropolitan Opera debut last season with Bizet’s Carmen, he returned this past November/December for Verdi’s Don Carlo. Highlights in 2011-12 include his Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, debut; a third production for Netherlands Opera; appearances in Vienna with both the Rotterdam and Vienna philharmonics; concerts with the Dresden Staatskapelle; and further recordings. Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s Rotterdam Philharmonic recordings for EMI/Virgin comprise an Edison Award-winning disc of works by Ravel , the Beethoven and Korngold violin concertos with Renaud Capuçon, and Fantasy: A Night at the Opera with flutist Emmanuel Pahud. Future releases include Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Death of Cleopatra for BIS Records. He has also recorded several award-winning albums with the Orchestre Métropolitain for ATMA Classique. Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s honors include a Royal Philharmonic Society Award, an Echo Award, the Virginia-Parker Award from the Canada Council, and the National Arts Centre Award. Born in Staffordshire, England, soprano Lucy Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2002 she received the Royal Overseas Gold Medal and in 2005 won second prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Ms. Crowe’s concert engagements include Handel arias with the Hong Kong Philharmonic under Harry Bicket; Haydn’s The Creation and The Season s with John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra in Paris and at Carnegie Hall; Mendelssohn’s Elijah under Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and also with the King’s Consort; Handel’s Messiah with Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert; Haydn’s Il ritorno di Tobia with Roger Norrington and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; and Handel’s Alexander’s Feast under Richard Egarr with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Other engagements include performances with the Sixteen under Harry Christophers, the City of London Sinfonia under Richard Hickox and Mr. Pinnock, and the Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh. Ms. Crowe has also appeared at the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart Festival and the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, and Salzburg festivals. She has given recitals throughout the U.K. and will make her Carnegie Hall recital debut next season. Ms. Crowe made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Other operatic engagements include Sophie in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier for the Royal Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Scottish Opera; Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando in Lille and for Dijon Opera; Poppea in Handel’s Agrippina and Drusilla in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea for English National Opera; Nanetta in Verdi’s Falstaff for Scottish Opera; Susanna and Michal in Handel’s Saul for Opera North; and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with William Christie for the Glyndebourne Festival and in Paris and New York. Ms. Crowe’s future engagements include Iole in Handel’s Hercules for Chicago Lyric Opera, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier for the Bavarian State Opera, and a Lully/Purcell/Rameau program with the City of Birmingham Symphony under Emannuelle Haïm. These current performances mark her Philadelphia Orchestra debut. Mezzo-soprano Birgit Remmert was born in Braunschweig, Germany, where she began her music studies; she later continued her studies in Detmold. During and shortly after finishing her musical education she was awarded prizes in several renowned international music competitions. Recent and future plans include concerts in Zurich, Brussels, the Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Budapest, Salzburg, Florence, Manchester, Sheffield, and Washington. In 2010 Ms. Remmert appeared in Handel’s Semele at the Theater an der Wien, in the role of the Nurse in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Vienna State Opera, in Dvořák’s Rusalka in Tokyo and Geneva, and in concerts with the Munich Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann. Ms. Remmert has given numerous recitals in Europe and appears regularly with many renowned orchestras; her Philadelphia Orchestra debut was in 2000. She has also given concerts in Vienna, Berlin, New York, Sapporo, Tokyo, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Milan, Lisbon, Madrid, Monte Carlo, Brussels, Pittsburgh, Rome, and Cardiff. Ms. Remmert’s opera engagements have included appearances at the Montpellier Festival, in the title role of Othmar Schoeck's Penthesilea, and at the Bayreuth Festival, where she has appeared as Fricka in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. Her other appearances include the roles of Ortrud in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Teatro Real Madrid, Gaea in Strauss’s Daphne at the Teatro la Fenice and Netherlands Opera, Juno in Semele and the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten in Zurich, Neris in Cherubini’s Médée at the Theater an der Wien, Mrs. Quickly in Verdi’s Falstaff in Hamburg, and Jezibaba in Rusalka at the Salzburg Festival. Ms. Remmert’s more than 30 recordings include Mahler’s Second, Third, and Eighth symphonies; Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and Symphony No. 9; Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle; Liszt’s Christus, which received the Echo Award in 2007; and three solo CDs. She can also be seen on several DVDs, including Purcell’s King Arthur from the 2004 Salzburg Festival, Daphne from the Teatro la Fenice, and Semele from the Zurich Opera House. Tenor James Taylor’s 2010-11 season includes Haydn’s “Paukenmesse” and Purcell’s Behold I Bring You Glad Tidings with Les Violons du Roy, Handel’s Messiah with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and with the Bach Collegium Japan, Mozart’s Requiem with Bernard Labadie and the Colorado Symphony, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Helmuth Rilling and the Chicago Symphony. Highlights of 2009-10 included Berlioz’s Requiem with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Messiah with the New York Philharmonic, and Mozart’s Requiem with Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony. In Europe Mr. Taylor sang Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Leipzig, Berlin, Stuttgart, and Essen with Mr. Rilling; Mendelssohn’s Paulus with Masaaki Suzuki in Utrecht and with Mr. Rilling and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi; and Emilio in Mozart’s Il sogno di Scipione with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Concentus Musicus in Vienna. In the summer of 2010, Mr. Taylor returned to the Oregon Bach Festival and also appeared at the Bard Music Festival. Mr. Taylor can be heard on over 30 recordings, including Messiah, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, and St. John Passion for Hänssler; and Bach’s Easter Oratorio, Beethoven's Missa solemnis, and Paulus under Philippe Herreweghe on the Harmonia Mundi label. Mr. Taylor’s most recent releases include Britten’s War Requiem with Mr. Rilling for Hänssler, Mozart’s Requiem with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra led by Andreas Delfs on Limestone Records, Missa solemnis with the Nashville Symphony on the Naxos label, and Johan Georg Conradi’s opera Ariadne with the Boston Early Music Festival led by Paul O’Dette on ArkivMusik. A native of Houston, Mr. Taylor attended Texas Christian University as a student of Arden Hopkin. A Fulbright Scholar, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich where he graduated in 1993. He has served as associate professor of voice at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music since 2005. These current performances mark his Philadelphia Orchestra debut. Bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams studied at, and is now an associate of, the Royal Academy of Music. Current and future concert plans include Bach’s Lutheran Mass No. 2 with the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Robin Ticciati, a Levite in Handel’s Solomon with the Orchestra Nationale della RAI and Ivor Bolton, Handel’s Messiah with the New York Philharmonic and Bernard Labadie, Bach’s St.