Dresden Festival Orchestra in Search of Original Sound
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»The Festival Orchestra is the new voice of the Dresden Music Festival and is – with its exhilarating and extraordinary productions – an ambassador SELECTION OF for the festival and the cultural heritage of Dresden.« Jan Vogler, Intendant INTERNATIONAL PRESS Photo: © Felix Broede DRESDEN COMMENTARIES »Orchestra, conductor, and audience were united in a love-fest of enthusiasm ... an auspicious FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA DRESDEN beginning for the Dresden Festival Orchestra.« Jens F. Laurson, Seen and Heard International, 30th May 2012 IN SEARCH OF MUSIC FESTIVAL »Ivor Bolton is most fortunate to have such a fine group of players who were clearly relishing the music and the responsive Albertinum audience. [...] Two encores, then it seemed over all too soon.« Michael Cookson, Seen and Heard International, 22nd May 2013 Renowned orchestras, multifaceted chamber music, Collaborations with prestigious Dresden institutions, ORIGINAL SOUND acclaimed soloists – in dialogue between the interna- such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Dresden »On the original instruments of the festival orchestra, the textures emerged with raw tional classical music scene’s important and formative Philharmonic, the Dresdner Kreuzchor, as well as the clarity, creating an understated effect that contrasts with the more brilliant sound voices and a unique cultural and historical setting, the Dresden State Art Collections, HELLERAU – European of modern string and winds.« Dresden Music Festival, founded in 1978, presents Center for the Arts, and the Staatsschauspiel theatre Rebecca Schmid, Classic Voice North America, 12th June 2014 each year a top-class program of exceptional depth round it all off. and diversity. From May to June, Dresden becomes a pulsating festival city that creates distinctive connections This has developed the festival into a prominent between space and music and offers opportunities for magnet for artists and a concert audience from across creative, spirited conception in atmospheric venues, the globe, and the festival city of Dresden belongs to from Baroque structures to the modern architecture the most attractive destinations in cultural tourism. of a factory. CONTACT Jan Vogler has been Intendant of the Dresden Music DRESDEN MUSIC FESTIVAL Festival since the 2009 season. Through the growing Hainü Xiao (Director of Artistic Management) resonance of the music festival, his vision is »to sustain- [email protected] ably fortify Dresden’s attraction as a cosmopolitan, heterogeneous and lively metropolis of culture and to DRESDEN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA turn it into Germany’s most significant authority Michael Neuhaus within the international festival circuit«. [email protected] Thomas Jahn [email protected] Oliver Kersken (Press and Marketing) [email protected] Further information at www.musikfestspiele.com Photo: © Oliver Killig DRESDNER MUSIKFESTSPIELE P.O. Box 10 04 53, 01074 Dresden, Germany Tel. + 49 (0) 351 - 478 56 0 Fax + 49 (0) 351 - 478 56 23 [email protected] www.musikfestspiele.com Text: Martin Künanz, Ana Maria Quandt Design: Agentur Grafikladen, March 2016 THE CONDUCTOR: IVOR BOLTON THE DRESDEN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA’S Photo: © Oliver Killig Ivor Bolton has been treating the Salzburg Festival to his Photo: © Ben Wright PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS broad opera and concert repertoire as an annual guest since 2000, and since 2004 he has been chief conductor of (2012–2017) the Mozarteumorchester in Salzburg. Ever since he made MAY 28, 2012, SEMPEROPER MAY 14, 2015, MESSE DRESDEN his debut with Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper in 1994, DRESDEN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Bolton has enjoyed a close relationship with the opera Dresden Festival Orchestra, Ivor Bolton, Conductor, Simone PREMIERE house, where he is currently leading a number of new Kermes, Soprano, Lil Buck, Dance, Monica Delgadillo Aguilar, productions from Monteverdi to Britten. In November Dresden Festival Orchestra, Ivor Bolton, Conductor, Choreography, Dresden school students 1998, the Bavarian premier presented him with the the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Giuliano Carmignola, Violin, Danielle de Niese, Soprano Edvard Grieg Excerpts from »Peer Gynt«; Gioachino Rossini renowned »Bavarian Theater Award«. Bolton made his to Paris, Florence, Milan, Rotterdam, to the symphony Johann Gottlieb Naumann Excerpts from »Aci e Galatea«; Overture from »Il Barbiere di Siviglia«, Aria from »Semiramide«; debut in 1995 with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden orchestra of Westdeutscher Rundfunk, to the Hamburg Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Symphony in D major F. 64; Joseph Pietro Mascagni Intermezzo sinfonico from »Cavalleria and has fostered a long-standing cooperation with the Philharmonic and to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Haydn Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in A major rusticana«; Giuseppe Verdi Aria from »I Masnadieri«; Georges Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Guest performances have Cecelia in Rome. Together with the Concerto Köln, he Hob. VIIa:3; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart »Exsultate, jubilate« Bizet »Carmen Suite« No. 1 and 2 (choreographed production) taken him to the Opéra National de Paris, the Vienna interpreted Handel’s »Athalia«, and performed in New K. 165 (158a); Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C THE DRESDEN Staatsoper, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the York, Paris and London. In 1993, he made his debut at The major Op. 21 MAY 17, 2015, SEMPEROPER Opernhaus in Zurich, the Festival Maggio Musicale in Proms, where he later conducted Bach’s »JohannesPassion« Florence, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Gran Teatre in 2000. In September 2015, he took up the position of Dresden Music Festival, Ivor Bolton, Conductor, FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA MAY 20, 2013, ALBERTINUM (ATRIUM) del Liceu in Barcelona. Music Director at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Since its Isabelle Faust, Violin Ivor Bolton has not only worked with the most prestigious founding in 2012, Ivor Bolton has been Chief Conductor Dresden Festival Orchestra, Ivor Bolton, Harpsichord and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy »The Hebrides«. Overture in »By introducing a mixed taste The Royal Orchestra under Concertmeister British symphony orchestras, but also with internationally of the Dresden Festival Orchestra. In September 2016 Conductor, Giuliano Carmignola, Violin and Concertmaster, B minor Op. 26; Ludwig van Beethoven Concerto for Violin leading ensembles. These collaborations have taken him he will assume the post of Music Director of the Basel Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Mr. Pisendel ... was brought to such tenderness of execution, that I ... and Orchestra in D major Op. 61; Robert Schumann in the last few seasons to Vienna, New York, Boston, to Symphony Orchestra. have not heard any better.« Johann Friedrich Fasch Orchestral Suite in D major FWV K:D1; Symphony No. 2 in C major Op. 61 Johann Adolf Hasse Aria »Dei di Roma« from »Il Trionfo di Clelia«; Johann Christian Bach Accompagnato and Aria from JUNE 2, 2016, KREUZKIRCHE »Artaserse«; Antonio Vivaldi Concerto »Per la Solennità di S. With these words, Johann Joachim Quantz describes the Back in 2012, the ensemble enthralled both audience Dresden Festival Orchestra, Dresden Kammerchor, ORCHESTRA ROSTER Lorenzo« in D major RV562; Johann David Heinichen former court orchestra, whose unique constellation is and critics with its celebrated premier during that Hans-Christoph Rademann, Conductor, Soloists, Yaman »Concerto« in F Seibel 234; George Frideric Handel Arias revived by the Dresden Festival Orchestra. The Dresden year’s festival under the direction of Ivor Bolton and Okur, Choreography, Conception from »Orlando«, »Tolomeo«, »Rodelinda«, »Water Music« Festival Orchestra was launched in the spirit of the with the acclaimed Italian violinist Giuliano Carmignola 2016 HWV 348-350 (selection) Joseph Haydn »The Creation« (choreographed production) legendary »Orchestra di Dresda«. The former court as concertmaster, demonstrating boundless joy of orchestra of August the Strong was considered to be playing, precision and vital enthusiasm. FIRST VIOLINS VIOLAS FLUTES TRUMPETS JUNE 7, 2014, GROSSER SCHLOSSHOF JUNE 5, 2016, SEMPEROPER the best ensemble of its kind in the period of Dresden’s Alexander Janiczek Anja Graewel Gionata Sgambaro Wolfgang Gaisböck (FURTHER DATES ON JUNE 9 & 10) cultural flowering and it assembled the most prestigious Following concerts that featured works from the Classic (Concertmaster) Federico Bresciani Mathias Kiesling Franz Landlinger Dresden Festival Orchestra, Ivor Bolton, Conductor, instrumentalists of its time. Three centuries later, the and Dresden Baroque, the 2014 season was dedicated Jürgen Groß Angelika Engel Dresden Festival Orchestra, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Jan Vogler, Cello Dresden Festival Orchestra unites international to the anniversary of Richard Strauss by rediscovering Boyana Maynalovska* Corina Golomoz OBOES TROMBONES Dresden, Kinderchor der Singakademie Dresden, Johannes Brahms Variations for Orchestra in B flat major specialists for historically informed performance his »Feuersnot«, which was nominated for the 2015 Pauline Nobes Michael Hanko Michael Niesemann Fred Deitz Stefan Klingele, Conductor, Soloists from the Sächsische on a theme by Joseph Haydn Op. 56a; Robert Schumann practice from the finest early-music ensembles in »International Opera Award«. After performing in 2015 Laszlo Paulik Raquel Massadas Thomas Jahn Werner Kloubert Staatsoper Dresden Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in A minor Op. 129; Europe – the perfect basis for the once praised »mixed during the opening gala