Saturday 2 November 2019 Federation Concert Hall Hobart Marko Letonja conductor Die Walküre Nina Stemme soprano Act II scene i (excerpt), Wotan and John Lundgren bass-baritone Brünnhilde Bengt Gomér lighting designer Duration 5 mins June Tyzack chorusmaster Die Walküre Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music Act III scene i (excerpt), The Ride of the Valkyries Tenors and Basses of the TSO Chorus Act III scene iii (complete), Wotan and Brünnhilde Duration 45 mins INTERVAL Duration 20 mins Photo by Jess Bonde Der fliegender Holländer When you make a bequest to the Overture Duration 11 mins Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Der fliegender Holländer Act I scene ii (excerpt), The Dutchman’s you do something remarkable – Monologue, ‘Die Frist ist um’ SUPPORTED BY Duration 11 mins you make a gift that will echo through the ages. Götterdämmerung Act III scene ii (excerpt), Siegfried’s Funeral Music Act III scene iii (excerpt), Brünnhilde’s Make a difference. WITH LEAD SUPPORT FROM Immolation Remember the TSO in your will. Peter Braithwaite Duration 28 mins Gary Linnane This concert will end at approximately 9.45pm. Sung in German with English surtitles. Surtitles by June Tyzack. This concert will be broadcast and streamed live throughout Australia and around the world by ABC Classic. We would appreciate your cooperation in keeping coughing to a minimum. TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off. FOUNDATION 2 1 Marko Letonja Nina Stemme John Lundgren Bengt Gomér Marko Letonja is the Tasmanian Symphony Swedish soprano Nina Stemme began her John Lundgren’s recent roles have included The Swedish set designer Bengt Gomér Orchestra’s inaugural Conductor Laureate, career as a lyric soprano in roles such as Barak in Richard Strauss’s Die Frau ohne works in opera, dance, theatre and other having been Chief Conductor and Artistic Mozart’s Cherubino and Pamina, before being Schatten in Verbier, as the Dutchman in The art projects. He studied history of art and Director, 2012-2018. Since 2012 he has offered the part of Isolde to be performed Flying Dutchman at Stuttgart State Opera, as philosophy at Lund University and, since also been Music Director of the Orchestra at Glyndebourne in 2003 and moving on to Scarpia in Tosca at the Semperoper Dresden, 1990, has designed set and lighting at philharmonique de Strasbourg. He was more lyric-dramatic roles. She has sung at as Telramund in Kasper Holten’s production theatres throughout Europe. He also works Music Director of the Slovenian Philharmonic opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera, of Lohengrin, and, with Nina Stemme, as as an opera director, making his debut with Orchestra, 1991-2003 and is the new Music La Scala, Bayreuth and Vienna State Opera. Wotan and The Wanderer in Keith Warner’s Puccini’s Turandot at Dalhalla in Sweden Director of the Bremen Philharmonic. Born Recent appearances have included the Vienna production of The Ring (Covent Garden in 2015. He was recently involved as in Slovenia, Marko Letonja studied at the State Opera’s 150th-Anniversary Concert, her debut) and, also at Covent Garden, as Count dramaturge in the creation of a new opera Academy of Music at Ljubljana and the Vienna Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in the title role Tomsky in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades. together with the NYC based composer João Academy of Music. He has conducted many of Richard Strauss’s Elektra, an all-Wagner He has sung in the Ring with Nina Stemme MacDowell on a project based on Ingmar orchestras in Europe, including the Munich concert with Marek Janowski and the North at the Royal Swedish Opera (with conductor Bergman’s film script for The Seventh Seal. Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony and the German Radio Elb Philharmonic in Hamburg, Marko Letonja) and sung Wotan at Bayreuth. Upcoming projects include a semi-staged Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Milan. He the Royal Swedish Opera’s Birgit Nilsson Companies with which he has worked include version of Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung was Music Director and Chief Conductor of 100th-Anniversary Concert, and as Brünnhilde the Royal Danish Opera, Danish Opera, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. both the Symphony Orchestra and Opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle at the Royal Opera Norwegian National Opera, Deutsche Oper He is designing the set for the operetta in Basel (2003-2006), and has conducted at House, Covent Garden. She has also sung Berlin, Bavarian State Opera and Hamburg Ludwig II at Theater Regensburg as well as the Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Brünnhilde opposite John Lundgren’s Wotan State Opera. In addition to Wagner, his roles a semi-staged version of Fidelio with the La Scala, Milan, and the Semper Oper, at the Royal Swedish Opera with conductor range from Iago in Otello, Jaroslav Prus in Swedish Chamber Orchestra in Örebro. Dresden. Recent appearances have included Marko Letonja. Her recordings include a live Janáček’s The Makropulos Case, Simone in Both productions are in collaboration with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Ginastera’s recording of her Berlin Isolde under Mark Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy to Handel. director Sam Brown. As a set and light Beatrix Cenci at Opéra national du Rhin, Janowski, Die Walküre under Valery Gergiev In contemporary opera he has played designer he has worked with such directors and Janáček’s The Makropolous Affair at the (from the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg) Prospero in Thomas Adès The Tempest, as Olivier Tambosi, Staffan Aspegren, Åsa Deutsche Oper, Berlin. He conducted Wagner’s as well as a DVD of her Walküre performance four roles in Cecilia and the Monkey King Melldahl, Nils Spangenberg, Håkan Lindhé, Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Royal Swedish under Barenboim from La Scala. Her repertoire by Reine Jönsson, Drottninghold (Sweden) Sofia Jupiter, Mellika Melouani Melani, Opera in 2017. Other work in his repertoire also covers Zemlinsky to Verdi to Janáček to and, with Nina Stemme, in the Göteberg Charlotte Engelkes and Sam Brown on includes Boris Godunov, Rigoletto and Don Puccini. Her awards include the International Opera premiere of Hans Gefors’ Notorious, projects including Lucia di Lammermoor, Giovanni, as well as Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Opera Award for the Best Female Singer based on Hitchcock’s film. He studied social Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, La traviata, Tristan und Isolde. Along with Emma Matthews (2013), as well as the city of Stockholm’s Saint sciences and worked as a social worker Così fan tutte, The Fallen Angels, Amadeus, and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Eric medal (2017), International Swede of the before pursuing a career in opera. The Full Monty, A Doll’s House, A Clockwork Marko Letonja was nominated for the 2014 Year 2018, and an honorary doctorate from Orange and Betrayal. ARIA Award for Best Classical Album for the University of Lund. Mozart Arias. 2 3 June Tyzack ANAM TSO Chorus June Tyzack became Chorusmaster of the The Australian National Academy of Music The TSO Chorus was founded in 1992 to TSO Chorus in 2001 following a career in (ANAM) is dedicated to training the most present concert performances of opera, and Sydney with Opera Australia and the Opera exceptional young classical musicians from has since broadened genres to embrace Studio of the Sydney Conservatorium Australia and New Zealand. It is a place masses, requiems and symphonies, as well of Music. Under her direction, the TSO in which musicians fulfil their potential as sacred and secular a cappella works. With Chorus has given performances in Hobart as music leaders, distinguished by their Marko Letonja, the TSO Chorus returned to and regional Tasmania, and through her skill, imagination and courage, and by its opera roots in performances of Gounod’s initiative, collaboration with interstate choirs their determined contribution to a vibrant Roméo et Juliette (2018), Bizet’s Carmen has resulted in performances with Sydney music culture. ANAM musicians learn and (2017), and the Helpmann Award-winning Philharmonia Choirs, Victorian Opera, transform through public performance. performance of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde Adelaide Festival Chorus, West Australian During the year, ANAM invites an impressive (2016). In addition to concerts with the Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and in Hong list of national and international guest artists TSO, highlights include performances with Kong with the WASO Chorus and Hong to mentor and perform alongside their the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, West Kong Philharmonic. She has devised and musicians to present over 180 events at their Australian Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide directed cutting-edge a cappella TSO Chorus home in South Melbourne and in venues Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria programs for a number of festivals, including across Australia. ANAM is renowned for its and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. in the Spiegeltent for Ten Days on the Island, innovation and energy, and is committed Under the direction of Chorusmaster June Mona Foma, Dark Mofo, Synaesthesia to pushing the boundaries of how music is Tyzack, the TSO Chorus has established a and Synaesthesia+, and for the TSO, she presented and performed. From orchestral notable presence at Mona, with Festival of directed Bach’s St Matthew Passion. In 2017 and chamber music concerts, solo recitals, Voices and in regional Tasmania. In May, the she facilitated a group of TSO choristers masterclasses and talks – experiencing music Chorus presented a concert of Australian a to participate in the Mitsingonzert in the at ANAM is unlike anywhere else. With an cappella works in Barcelona and participated Berlin Philharmonie and, this year, in the outstanding track record of success, ANAM in a Verdi Requiem Sing Along with Simon Palau de la Musica, Barcelona. While on alumni work in orchestras and chamber Halsey conducting. The Chorus will finish the tour, she conducted the TSO Chorus in a ensembles around the world, performing as year in collaboration with WASO Chorus and concert of Australian repertoire featuring a soloists, contributing to educating the next Principal Conductor, Asher Fisch, performing commissioned work by Lisa Cheney.