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Le nozze di Figaro in Sweden, February with Elbphilharmonie, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra

21cmediagroup / 10th January 2025 / News

Alan Gilbert returns to the Stockholm house this January to lead the production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Jan 25–March 20)  A major player on the opera scene, he has helmed productions at legendary houses worldwide, including Milan’s La Scala and New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where his account of Doctor Atomic was filmed, released on DVD, and recognized with a Grammy Award.

This February marks the second edition of “Elbphilharmonie Visions,” their biennial ten-day celebration of 21st-century music. Gilbert and the NDR open the festival with new music from Alex Paxton and Bernd Richard Deutsch (Feb 7), before closing it with works by Dalit Warshaw, Dai Fujikura, and Magnus Lindberg (Feb 16). Gilbert is a longtime champion of the Finnish composer’s music, and his all-Lindberg recording “could hardly be betteredas an introduction to one of the most approachable and individual voices in contemporary music” (MusicWeb International). 

Following his weeklong residency with the Boston Symphony Orchestra this past summer at the 2024 Tanglewood festival, Gilbert  leads the orchestra in a program juxtaposing two Classical Haydn symphonies with Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Violin Concerto, featuring Gramophone Award winner Isabelle Faust (Feb 20–22). Gilbert’s leadership of the Boston Symphony has been called “revelatory,” thanks to “his thoughtful musicianship and fresh approaches to programming” (Boston Globe).  

 

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