RCO: Mariss Jansons conducts Strauss and Tchaikovsky

Mariss Jansons conducts Richard Strauss’ famous tone poem “Tod und Verklärung” together with Tchaikovskys famous 5th symphony and a work by Dutch composer Johan Wagenaar, who died in 1942 and who’s music was considerably influenced by Richard Strauss. —– PROGRAM: Johan Wagenaar: The Taming of the Shrew / Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Placído Domingo live at Loreley

Placido Domingo performing on the spectacular stage near the famous Loreley rock! He is joined by the two sopranos Angel Blue, who has been described by Placido as ‘the next Leontyne Price’, and Micaëla Oeste, who was a member of the ‘Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist’ program with Washington National Opera, where she triumphed after stepping in mid-performance as Ophelie in Hamlet. —– Program: PART 1 – 200 Years Wagner & Verdi: Wagner: Die Meistersinger – overture / Walkuere – Winterstuerme / Tannhäuser – Dich theure Halle / O du, mein holder Abendstern // Verdi: Luisa Miller – Lo vidi, e il primo palpito / La Traviata – Pura siccome un angelo / Un giorno di regno – overture / Il trovatore – Udiste … Mira, d’acerbe lagrime /// PART 2: Catalani: Lorelei – Danza delle ondine // Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns – Dein ist mein ganzes Herz // Kálmán: Gräfin Maritza – Höre ich Zigeunergeigen // Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe – Lippen schweigen // Von Suppé: Leichte Kavallerie – overture // Strauss: Die Fledermaus – Trio Act 1 // Luna: El niño judio / D’España vengo // Moreno Torroba: Luisa Fernanda – En mi tierra extremena // Chapí: Las hijas del Zebedeo – Carceleras // Moreno Torroba: Maravilla – Amor, vida de mi vida // Encores

Kathleen Battle at the Metropolitan Museum

This recital of Kathleen Battle, taped in the Temple of Dendur at the Met Museum in New York. Kathleen Battle presents a selections of famous songs and arias by Gershwin, Handel, Mozart, Strauss and Obradors as well as some spirituals.

RCO Opening Night 2023: Gianandrea Noseda – Dance and Rhythm

In this dazzling open-air concert, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra plays beloved classics and pleasant surprises. The season opening of the Concertgebouworkest will take place at the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam. Gianandrea Noseda conducts a festive program full of dance and rhythm, with famous pieces such as Ravel‘s Bolero and the Moldau by Smetana and some special surprises, including a world premiere.

Karajan in Japan

Join the maestro Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker for this eclectic and striking program featuring three masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire! The concert begins with Mozart’s Divertimento No. 17 in B-flat Major. Composed in 1777, the work incarnates Classicist ideals of with its apparent simplicity disguising great sophistication. Richard Strauss’s symphonic poem Don Juan follows: premiered in 1888, the work narrates the story of the famed libertine with a highly virtuosic score. The concert draws to a close with Ottorio Respighi’s Pines of Rome (1924), for which Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker prove to be the ideal interpreters of its complex and brilliant orchestration.