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Year 2012 (July)

The table below lists the performances in chronological order. 

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1 July 2012
5.00pm
Grande Messe des morts (Requiem) Église d’Illiers Combray, Illiers Combray, France
Orchestre Symphonique et Choœurs du Conservatoire de Chartres
conductor: Michel Bienaimé
chorus master: Philippe Frémont
Fabrice Mantegna (tenor)
1 July 2012 Les Troyens

 

New production

Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, UK
Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus
conductor: Antonio Pappano
producer: David McVicar
choreographer: Andrew George
sets: Es Devlin
costumes: Moritz Junge
lighting: Wolfgang Göbbel
cast:
Cassandre: Anna Caterina Antonacci
Ascagne: Barbara Senator
Hécube: Pamela Helen Stephen
Chorèbe: Fabio Capitanucci
Enée: Bryan Hymel
Panthée: Ashley Holland
Ghost of Hector: Jihoon Kim
Priam: Gwynne Howell
Trojan Soldier/ The God Mercury: Daniel Grice
Greek Captain: Lukas Jakobski
Helenus: Ji Hyun Kim
Didon Eva-Maria: Westbroek
Anna: Hanna Hipp
Iopas: Ji-Min Park
Hylas: Ed Lyon
Narbal: Brindley Sherratt
4 July 2012
8.30pm
La Damnation de Faust

New staged production





St Galler Festspiele [St Gallen Festival]
Klosterhof, St Gallen, Switzerland
Sinfonieorchester St.Gallen
Chor des Theaters St. Gallen
nductor: Sébastien Rouland
producer: Carlos Wagner
sets: Rifail Ajdarpasic
Marguerite: Elena Maximova / Katja Starke
Faust: Giorgio Berrugi
Méphistophélès: Mirco Palazzi / Wade Kernot
5 July 2012
8.00pm
Roméo seul – Fête chez les Capulet
(from Roméo et Juliette)
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
Orchestre National de France
conductor: Didier Benetti
5 July 2012 Les Troyens

 

New production

Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, UK
Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus
conductor: Antonio Pappano
producer: David McVicar
choreographer: Andrew George
sets: Es Devlin
costumes: Moritz Junge
lighting: Wolfgang Göbbel
cast:
Cassandre: Anna Caterina Antonacci
Ascagne: Barbara Senator
Hécube: Pamela Helen Stephen
Chorèbe: Fabio Capitanucci
Enée: Bryan Hymel
Panthée: Ashley Holland
Ghost of Hector: Jihoon Kim
Priam: Gwynne Howell
Trojan Soldier/ The God Mercury: Daniel Grice
Greek Captain: Lukas Jakobski
Helenus: Ji Hyun Kim
Didon Eva-Maria: Westbroek
Anna: Hanna Hipp
Iopas: Ji-Min Park
Hylas: Ed Lyon
Narbal: Brindley Sherratt
6 July 2012
8.30pm
La Damnation de Faust

New staged production





St Galler Festspiele [St Gallen Festival]
Klosterhof, St Gallen, Switzerland
Sinfonieorchester St.Gallen
Chor des Theaters St. Gallen
conductor: Sébastien Rouland
producer: Carlos Wagner
sets: Rifail Ajdarpasic
Marguerite: Elena Maximova / Katja Starke
Faust: Giorgio Berrugi
Méphistophélès: Mirco Palazzi / Wade Kernot
7 July 2012
7.00pm
Les Nuits d’été
Gergiev Music Festival in Mikaeli
Martti Talvela Hall, Mikaeli, Finland
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Marita Viitasalo (piano)
7 July 2012 
7.30pm
Grande Messe des morts (Requiem)



Melbourne Intervarsity Choral Festival 2012
Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
63rd Intervarsity Festival Choir
Melbourne Youth Orchestra
conductor: Brett Kelly
Daniel Todd (tenor)
7 July 2012
7.30pm
Te Deum Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK
Bromley Symphony Orchestra
St Ives Choral Society
Huntingdonshire Philharmonic Chorus
Swavesey Community Choir
Cottenham Village College Choir
The Boys’ Choir of All Saints Church, Northampton
Julian Merson (organ)
Richard Reaville (tenor)
conductor: Adrian Brown 
7 July 2012
7.30pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain BridgeWater Hall, Manchester, UK
The Hallè Orchestra
conductor: Andrew Gourlay
7 July 2012
7.30pm
Waverley Overture Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, Middlesex, UK
Thames Philharmonia
conductor: Byung-Yun Yu
7 July 2012
8.00pm
Grande Messe des morts (Requiem)





35th edition of  Festival de Lanaudière
Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, Joliette, QC, Canada
Orchestre du Festival
Chœur Saint-Laurent
Cantata Singers of Ottawa
conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni
chorus master: Michael Zaugg
Frédéric Antoun (tenor)
8 July 2012

See review by Christian Wasselin (in French)
Les Troyens

 

New production

Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, UK
Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus
conductor: Antonio Pappano
producer: David McVicar
choreographer: Andrew George
sets: Es Devlin
costumes: Moritz Junge
lighting: Wolfgang Göbbel
cast:
Cassandre: Anna Caterina Antonacci
Ascagne: Barbara Senator
Hécube: Pamela Helen Stephen
Chorèbe: Fabio Capitanucci
Enée: Bryan Hymel
Panthée: Ashley Holland
Ghost of Hector: Jihoon Kim
Priam: Gwynne Howell
Trojan Soldier/ The God Mercury: Daniel Grice
Greek Captain: Lukas Jakobski
Helenus: Ji Hyun Kim
Didon Eva-Maria: Westbroek
Anna: Hanna Hipp
Iopas: Ji-Min Park
Hylas: Ed Lyon
Narbal: Brindley Sherratt
11 July 2012
6.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

Aspen Music Festival and School
Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor: Jane Glover
11 July 2012 Les Troyens

 

New production

Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, UK
Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus
conductor: Antonio Pappano
producer: David McVicar
choreographer: Andrew George
sets: Es Devlin
costumes: Moritz Junge
lighting: Wolfgang Göbbel
cast:
Cassandre: Anna Caterina Antonacci
Ascagne: Barbara Senator
Hécube: Pamela Helen Stephen
Chorèbe: Fabio Capitanucci
Enée: Bryan Hymel
Panthée: Ashley Holland
Ghost of Hector: Jihoon Kim
Priam: Gwynne Howell
Trojan Soldier/ The God Mercury: Daniel Grice
Greek Captain: Lukas Jakobski
Helenus: Ji Hyun Kim
Didon Eva-Maria: Westbroek
Anna: Hanna Hipp
Iopas: Ji-Min Park
Hylas: Ed Lyon
Narbal: Brindley Sherratt
12 July 2012
8.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romaim Palais des Beaux-Arts, Salle Henry Le Bœuf, Brussels, Belgium
Orchestre National de Belgique, Ozark Henry
conductor: Stefan Blunier 
13 July 2012
9.30pm
Marche hongroise
(from La Damnation de Faust)
Théâtre Jean-Deschamps, Carcassonne, France
Orchestre National de Lille
conductor: Jean-Claude Casadesus
14 July 2012
7.30pm
Les Nuits d’été


Music for a Summer Evening
Bredon Village Hall, Bredon, UK
Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra
conductor: David Curtis
April Fredrick (soprano)
15 July 2012
4.00pm
Symphonie fantastique

Aspen Music Festival and School
Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Aspen Festival Orchestra
conductor: Osmo Vänskä
15 July 2012
7.30pm
Les Nuits d’été


Music for a Summer Evening
Toddington Village Hall, Toddington, UK
Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra
conductor: David Curtis
April Fredrick (soprano)
20 July 2012
6.00pm
Les Nuits d’été


Aspen Music Festival and School
Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Aspen Chamber Symphony
conductor: Jeffrey Kahane
Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano)
22 July 2012
4.30pm

Proms Plus Intro (free entry):
2.45pm – c. 3.30pm
Royal College of Music

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

Les Troyens 

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BBC Proms
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano
cast:
Bryan Hymel tenor (Aeneas)
Fabio Capitanucci baritone, Proms debut artist (Coroebus)
Ashley Holland baritone (Panthus)
Brindley Sherratt bass (Narbal)
Ji-Min Park tenor, Proms debut artist (Iopas)
Barbara Senator mezzo-soprano, Proms debut artist (Ascanius)
Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano (Cassandra)
Eva Maria Westbroek soprano, Proms debut artist (Dido)
Hanna Hipp mezzo-soprano, Proms debut artist (Anna)
Ed Lyon tenor (Hylas)
Robert Lloyd bass (Priam)
Lukas Jakobski bass (Greek Chieftain)
Jihoon Kim bass, Proms debut artist (Ghost of Hector)
Ji Hyun Kim tenor, Proms debut artist (Helenus)
Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano (Hecuba)
25 July 2012
8.00pm
Les Nuits d’été

Concert in memory of Philippe Pélissier, «musicien metteur en onde» at the Radio France

Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, France
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
conductor: Edward Gardner
Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
26 July 2012
8.30pm
Symphonie fantastique
(5th movement)

[played in the film: Shining]

Invito Al Cinema: La Musica dei Film di Kubrick
Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo, Milan, Italy
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
conductor: Gabriele Bonolis
27 July 2012
6.00pm
Te Deum



Hereford Three Choirs Festival 2012
Hereford Cathedral, Hereford, UK
Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
conductor: Geraint Bowen
Wynne Evans (tenor)
28  July 2012
8.30pm
La Damnation de Faust

Sung in French with English supertitles





Tanglewood Festival 2012
Tanglewood Shed, Lenox, MA, USA
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood Festival Chorus (conductor: John Oliver)
PALS Children’s Chorus (conductor: Andy Icochea Icochea)
conductor: Charles Dutoit
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano (Marguerite)
Paul Groves, tenor (Faust)
Sir WillardWhite, baritone (Méphistophélès)
Christopher Feigum, bass-baritone (Brander)
29  July 2012
8.00pm
Grande Messe des morts (Requiem) Hochstein Performance Hall, Rochester, NY, USA
Finger Lakes Choral Festival (director: Adrian G. Horn)
Penfield Symphony Orchestra
guest conductor: Eric Townell
Dan McInerney (tenor)
30 July 2012
9.30pm
Overture Le Corsaire

Marche Hongroise
Air de Marguerite: Amour, d’ardente flamme

(from La Damnation de Faust)

Air de Didon: Ah, je vais mourir
(from Les Troyens)

Chorégies d’Orange – Concert Lyrique
Théâtre Antique, Orange, France
Orchestre National de France
conductor: Michel Plasson
Diana Damrau (soprano)
Béatrice Uria-Monzon (mezzo-soprano)

June 2012   August 2012

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