SVENSKA KONSERTBYRÅN AB Newsletter, March 2013 Michael Weinius in Wagner Gala with Christian Thielemann Swedish tenor Michael Weinius has been facing a busy phase; after his successful debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin in the title role in Lohengrin, he with very short notice jumped in at a Wagner Gala lead by Christian Thielemann at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. At the concert Michael sang excerpts from Lohengrin, among others “In fernem Land”. - It was a tremendous experience to meet Thielemann. Terribly nervous before and then strangely undramatic. I auditioned by taking part in a rehearsal where I sang the soprano duet with Ann Petersen. Then, in the afternoon just before the concert we had only a short rehearsal. After about 30 seconds of “In fernem Land” Thielemann cut, so at the concert I had not even sung through it. Thielemann does not over-rehearse, the music is created during the concert..., while conducting he is with you in every thought and breath and you know all the time that you have his full support. It was one of the best experiences I ever have had with a conductor, Michael Weinius tells us with excitement. Later this month (on 28th of March) awaits another important debut for Michael – at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in the title role of Parsifal lead by Kent Nagano. Before that he will be singing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Fredrik Burstedt and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. Photo by Mats Bäcker Wotan and Wolfram Fredrik Zetterström is Wotan in the Latvian National Opera’s revival of Das Rheingold. Performances take place on 8 and 10 March. Fredrik Zetterström will later this year sing Wolfram in Tannhäuser at Teatro Municipal de Lima under the baton of the young and extremely talented conductor Mateusz Moleda. Daniel Frank will be singing the title role. SVENSKA KONSERTBYRÅN AB Karlbergsvägen 52, 1tr SE-113 37 STOCKHOLM www.svenskakonsertbyran.se Phone: +46 8 665 80 88, Fax: +46 8 665 80 66, E-Mail: [email protected] SVENSKA KONSERTBYRÅN AB Romantic virtuosity Young British violinist Chloë Hanslip’s recording of Glazounov's Violin Concerto has just been released on Hyperion within Hyperion’s “The Romantic Violin Concerto” Series (No. 14). The volume also includes the less known lyric Concerto quasi una fantasia for violin and full orchestra of Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck. Alexander Vedernikov leads Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. Das Lied von der Erde Fredrik Burstedt, who last month led the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (KORK) in a Hitchcock film music programme, will on March 10th be conducting Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Michael Weinius will be singing the tenor part. Daniel Hope entrances the Swedish audience Shortly after his great success with the Hollywood Exiles programme performed together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Daniel Hope returned to Sweden, this time for playing Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto with Ed Gardener and the Gothenburg Symphony. …a lavish generous concert with beautiful and highly stimulating music, as the soloist this time had almost superhuman capacity of his instrument...we wish Daniel Hope will come back again as soon as possible, the local newspaper GöteborgsPosten wrote. La Bohème at NorrlandsOperan The reviews have been rave also about NorrlandsOperan’s new bare and stunningly beautiful production of La Bohème which had its opening on February 28th. Chinese tenor Yinjia Gong is heard as Rodolfo and Swedish baritone Jakob Högström as Schaunard. Intense touring for Eichenholz Swedish conductor Mika Eichenholz has an intensive touring schedule. With Salut to Vienna’s festive New Years Concerts in New Brunswick, Strathmore in Washington and Lincoln Center in New York behind him as well as the recent Scandinavian tour with the Schloss Schönbrunn Orchester Vienna he is now preparing for upcoming opera gala concerts in Holland with the Kazan Opera. Mika Eichenholz is also a regular guest in Hungarian orchestras. In January he led the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Miskolc in Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony. Later this spring he will conduct the Savaria Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius Symphony nr 2 SVENSKA KONSERTBYRÅN AB Karlbergsvägen 52, 1tr SE-113 37 STOCKHOLM www.svenskakonsertbyran.se Phone: +46 8 665 80 88, Fax: +46 8 665 80 66, E-Mail: [email protected] .