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Year 2008 (February)

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1 February 2008
10.00am
Roméo seul 
Grande fête chez Capulet
(from Roméo et Juliette)

Youth Concert Series
Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Boston Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Federico Cortese
1 February 2008
7.45pm

pre-concert talk by Thierry Fischer at 7.00pm
Overture Le Roi  Lear Whitla Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Ulster Orchestra
conductor: Thierry Fischer
1 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
conductor: Mariss Jansons
1 February 2008
8.00pm
Les Nuits d’été Symphony Center, Chicago, USA
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Pierre Boulez
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
2 February 2008
4.00pm
Rêverie et Caprice Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France
Orchestre Pasdeloup
conductor: Mykola Dyadyura
Patrice Fontanarosa (violin)
2 February 2008
7.00pm
Roméo et Juliette (orchestral excerpts) Auditorium Niccolò Paganini, Teatro Regio di Parma, Parma, Italy
Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma
conductor: Inma Shara 
2 February 2008
7.30pm
Symphonie fantastique BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Brooklyn Philharminic
conductor: Michael Christie
2 February 2008
8.00pm
Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict
Symphonie fantastique
Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, Canada
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Charles Dutoit
2 February 2008
8.00pm
Les Nuits d’été Symphony Center, Chicago, USA
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Pierre Boulez
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
3 February 2008
5.00pm
Roméo et Juliette  (orchestral excerpts) Auditorium Niccolò Paganini, Teatro Regio di Parma, Parma, Italy
Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma
conductor: Inma Shara
4 February 2008
7.30pm
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini Lincoln Center, New York, USA
New York Philharmonic
conductor: Lorin Maazel
4 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York, USA
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
conductor: Mariss Jansons
5 February 2008 L’Enfance du Christ Great Hall, Moscow Conservatoire, Moscow, Russia
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow
Moscow State Chamber Choir (director: Vladimir Minin)
Children’s Choir ‘Vesna’ (director: Alexander Ponomarev)
conductor: Vladimir Fedoseyev
with invited French soloists:
Delphine Haidan (mezzo-soprano)
Yann Beuron (tenor)
Gilles Cachemaille (baritone)
Stephan Degout (baritone)
6 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, USA
NEC Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Guillermo Figueroa
7 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique
Cléopâtre
deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie
conductor: Kazushi Ono
Béatrice Uria-Monzon (mezzo-soprano)
7 February 2008
9.00pm
Les Nuits d’été Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, Italy
Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali
conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Nathalie Stutzmann (mezzo-soprano)
8 February 2008
2.30pm
Songs (unspecified)

Lunch concert
Salle Fiocco, Ateliers de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium
Solistes de la Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth
8 February 2007
7.30pm
La Damnation de Faust

(staged production)

Freiburger Theater – Großes Haus, Freiburg, Germany
Freiburger Theater’s orchestra and chorus
conductor: Gerhard Markson
chorus master: Bernhard Moncado
producer: Thomas Krupa
Faust: Dong Won Kim 
Marguerite: Jana Havranová 
Mephistopheles: Radu Cojocariu 
Brander: Matthias Flohr
9 February 2008
5.00pm
Les Nuits d’été Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, Italy
Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali
conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Nathalie Stutzmann (mezzo-soprano)
9 February 2008
7.30pm
Chasse royale et orage (from Les Troyens) St John’s Church, Waterloo, London, UK
Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor: Jonathan Butcher
9 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD, San Diego, USA
La Jolla Symphony
conductor: Steven Schick
9 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Hammerson Hall, Mississauga, Canada
Mississauga Symphony
conductor: John Barnum
9 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique
Cléopâtre
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Salle Henry Le Bœuf, Brussels, Belgium
Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie
conductor: Kazushi Ono
Béatrice Uria-Monzon (mezzo-soprano)
9 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique (2nd movement: Un bal) Nikolaisaal, Potsdam, Germany
Staatsorchester Frankfurt
conductor: Jürgen Bruns
10 February 2008
3.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD, San Diego, USA
La Jolla Symphony
conductor: Steven Schick
11 February 2008
7.30pm
Les Nuits d’été Cadogan Hall, London, UK
Chelsea Sinfonia
conductor: Neil Thomson
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano)
11 February 2008
8.00pm
Villanelle
Le Spectre de la rose
(from Les Nuits d’été)

D’amour l’ardente flamme . . .
(from La Damnation de Faust)

A fund raising recital for the benefit of  the Chaîne de l’Espoir dedicated to saving sick poor children
Théâtre Marigny, Paris, France
Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano)
Sophie Raynaud (piano)
12 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Tsai Performance Center, Boston, USA
Boston University Symphony Orchestra
conductor: David Hoose
13 February 2008
7.30pm
Symphonie fantastique The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK
Hallé Orchestra
conductor: Cristian Mandeal
13 February 2008 Works unspecified


German Tour 2008
St.-Elisabeth-Kirche, Hude, Germany
Alchemy – Tuba Euphonium Quartet:
Gary Buttery and Joanna Hersey (tuba
Danny Vinson and James Jackson (euphonium)
14 February 2008
7.30pm
Symphonie fantastique The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK
Hallé Orchestra
conductor: Cristian Mandeal
14 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Palais des Beaux-Arts, Salle Henry Le Bœuf, Brussels, Belgium
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders
conductor: Jaap Van Zweden
14 February 2008
8.00pm
Chasse royale et orage (from Les Troyens) Palais des Sports, Bordeaux, France
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
conductor: Heinz Holliger
15 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Hilbert Circle Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Douglas Boyd
16 February 2008
5.30pm
Symphonie fantastique Hilbert Circle Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Douglas Boyd
16 February 2008
7.30pm

pre-concert talk at 6.30pm with Trisha Cooper in conversation
Symphonie fantastique Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield, UK
Hallé Orchestra
conductor: Cristian Mandeal
16 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique de Bijloke, Gent, Belgium
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders
conductor: Jaap Van Zweden
17 February 2008
11.00am
Kid concert, based on
Symphonie fantastique
Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerp, Belgium
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders
conductor: Jaap Van Zweden
17 February 2008
2.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Suntory Hall, Main Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor: Eiji Oue
17 February 2008
3.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, MO, USA
Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra
conductor: Scott Parkman
17 February 2008
3.00pm
L’Invitation à la danse
(Weber, arr. Berlioz)

Symphonie fantastique
Mondavi Center, Davis, CA, USA
Sacramento Philharmonic
conductor: Laura Jackson
17 February 2008
7.30pm
Symphonie fantastique The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK
Hallé Orchestra
conductor: Cristian Mandeal
18 February 2008
3.00pm
Symphonie fantastique (excerpts) Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, USA
Washington Symphonic Brass
conductor: Richard Westerfield
18 February 2008
7.30pm
Roméo et Juliette (excerpts) Musikverein, Großer Saal, Vienna, Austria
Wiener Philharmoniker
conductor: Valery Gergiev
18 February 2008
8.00pm
Chasse royale et orage (from Les Troyens) Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
Juilliard Orchestra
conductor: Emmanuel Villaume
20 February 2008
8.00pm
Les Nuits d’été Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Orchesre de Paris
conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
20 February 2008
8.00pm
Cléopâtre Centre national des Arts, Ottawa, Canada
Orchestre du Centre national des Arts
conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
Susanne Mentzer (mezzo-soprano)
20 February 2008
8.00pm
Les Nuits d’été Kurhaus, Wiesbaden, Germany 
Hessischen Staatsorchester
conductor: Marc Piollet
Annette Dasch (soprano)
21 February 2008
10.30am
Roméo et Juliette Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center, Louisville, KY, USA
Louisville Orchestra
accompanied by a chorus of well over 100 (chorus master: Kent Hatteberg)
conductor: Jorge Mester
Shana Blakehill (soprano)
Randall Bills (tenor)
Charles Robert Austin (bass-baritone)
chorus was not announced
21 February 2008
8.00pm
Les Nuits d’été Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Orchesre de Paris
conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
21 February 2008
8.00pm
Cléopâtre Centre national des Arts, Ottawa, Canada
Orchestre du Centre national des Arts
conductor: Pinchas Zukerman
Susanne Mentzer (mezzo-soprano)
21 February 2008
8.00pm
Cléopâtre Orchestra Hall, Max M. Fisher Music Center, Detroit, USA
Detroit Symphony
conductor: Thomas Wilkins
Denyce Graves (mezzo soprano)
22 February 2008
10.45am
Cléopâtre Orchestra Hall, Max M. Fisher Music Center, Detroit, USA
Detroit Symphony
conductor: Thomas Wilkins
Denyce Graves (mezzo soprano)
22 February 2007
7.30pm
La Damnation de Faust

(staged production)

Freiburger Theater – Großes Haus, Freiburg, Germany
Freiburger Theater’s orchestra and chorus
conductor: Gerhard Markson
chorus master: Bernhard Moncado
producer: Thomas Krupa
Faust: Dong Won Kim 
Marguerite: Jana Havranová 
Mephistopheles: Radu Cojocariu 
Brander: Matthias Flohr
22 February 2008
7.30pm
Roméo et Juliette (excerpts) Barbican Hall, London, UK
Vienna Philharmonic
conductor: Valery Gergiev
22 February 2008
8.00pm
Roméo et Juliette Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center, Louisville, KY, USA
Louisville Orchestra
accompanied by a chorus of well over 100 (chorus master: Kent Hatteberg)
conductor: Jorge Mester
Shana Blakehill (soprano)
Randall Bills (tenor)
Charles Robert Austin (bass-baritone)
chorus was not announced
22 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle, Toledo, OH, USA
Toledo Symphony
conductor: Yoav Talmi
23 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle, Toledo, OH, USA
Toledo Symphony
conductor: Yoav Talmi
23 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stag, Carnegie Hall, New York, USA
Juilliard Orchestra
conductor: James DePreist
23 February 2008
8.30pm
Cléopâtre Orchestra Hall, Max M. Fisher Music Center, Detroit, USA
Detroit Symphony
conductor: Thomas Wilkins
Denyce Graves (mezzo soprano)
23 February 2008
8.30pm
Hymne à la France Espace Culturel du Brionnais, Chauffailles, France
Chorale de l’Harmonie de l’Espérance
conductor (from piano): Antony Shelley
24 February 2008
2.30pm
Symphonie fantastique Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montréal, Canada
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
conductor: Kent Nagano
25 February 2008
8.30pm
La Captive

Victor Hugo Recital
Péniche Opéra, Paris, France
Françoise Masset (soprano)
Françoise Tillard (piano)
26 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota, FL, USA
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
26 February 2008
8.00pm
Les Nuits d’été Isaac Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York, USA
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Pierre Boulez
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
26 February 2008
8.15pm
Roméo et Juliette (orchestral excerpts) Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wiener Philharmoniker
conductor: Valery Gergiev
27 February 2008
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique Arsht Center, Knight Concert Halls, Miami, FL, USA
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
27 February 2008
8.15pm
Roméo et Juliette (orchestral excerpts) Salle de Musique, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Berner Symphonie-Orchester
conductor: Andrey Boreyko
28 February 2008
12.15pm
Roméo et Juliette (orchestral excerpts) Kultur-Casino Bern, Grosser Saal, Switzerland
Berner Symphonie-Orchester
conductor: Andrey Boreyko
28 February 2008
7.30pm
LInvitation à la valse

Weber, arr. Berlioz

Roméo et Juliette (orchestral excerpts):

Roméo seul
Grande fête chez les Capulets
Scène d’amour
Scherzo: La Reine Mab

Episode de la vie d’un compositeur: Hector Berlioz
Kultur-Casino Bern, Grosser Saal, Switzerland
Berner Symphonie-Orchester
conductor: Andrey Boreyko
28 February 2008
8.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, USA
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
29 February 2008
7.30pm
LInvitation à la valse

Weber, arr. Berlioz

Roméo et Juliette (orchestral excerpts):

Roméo seul
Grande fête chez les Capulets
Scène d’amour
Scherzo: La Reine Mab

Episode de la vie d’un compositeur: Hector Berlioz
Kultur-Casino Bern, Grosser Saal, Switzerland
Berner Symphonie-Orchester
conductor: Andrey Boreyko
29 February 2008
8.00pm
Roméo et Juliette (orchestral excerpts) Isaac Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York, USA
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor: Valery Gergiev

January 2008   March 2008

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