Summer concerts in London and Spain
On July 19, David Afkham leads the Orquesta Nacional de España at the BBC Proms, with a program that features Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, de Falla’s Fantasía bætica, Rodrigo’s Concierto {…}
On July 19, David Afkham leads the Orquesta Nacional de España at the BBC Proms, with a program that features Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, de Falla’s Fantasía bætica, Rodrigo’s Concierto {…}
The next concerts with David Afkham at the helm of the OCNE take place on May 15, 16 and 17. The evenings will start with Conrado del Campo’s Divina Comedia, {…}
To mark the 150th anniversary of his birth and the 80th anniversary of his death, on April 24, 25 and 26, David Afkham conducts some of Falla’s lesser-known compositions, leading the OCNE in La Fantasía bætica in a new orchestration by Francisco Coll, and the suite Homenajes. The programme is completed {…}
On February 21 and 27, David Afkham returns to the pit of Berlin’s Deutsche Oper to conduct Richard Strauss’ one-act tragedy, Elektra. Catherine Foster sings the title role, Karita Mattila is Klytämnestra, Flurina Stucki is Chrysothemis, Burkhard Ulrich is Aegisth and Tobias Kehrer is Orest.The production by Kirsten Harms aims {…}
On February 6, 7 and 8, David Afkham conducts in Madrid once again, in a program featuring Turina, Schumann, Richard Strauss and de Falla. Pablo Ferrández will be the soloist in Schumann’s Cello Concerto, which Schumann wrote shortly before he took up the post of conductor of the Düsseldorf orchestra. It {…}
The classic Greek myth of the nymph Daphne, who rejects Apollo’s advances and metamorphoses into a tree, was adapted into an opera by Richard Strauss and premiered in 1938. David Afkham makes his debut at Seattle Opera, conducting a concert version of the work on January 16 and 18. The cast features {…}