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Thursday 4 OCTOBER 2007 7.30pm
Juan Diego
Flórez
Christopher Franklin
TENOR
CONDUCTOR
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A CONCERT OF OPERATIC ARIAS
CADOGAN HALL
Juan Diego
Flórez
Born in Lima, Peru, Juan Diego Flórez
undertook music studies both in his native
Lima and at the Curtis Institute in
Philadelphia. In 1996 he made his official
operatic debut in Matilde di Shabran at the
Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, where his
expressive voice and astonishing agility
immediately won him critical accolades.
Since then, Flórez has become the tenor of
choice in major international theatres.
Juan Diego has enjoyed great success in theatres
such as La Scala, Milan in Armide, Falstaff, Il
Cappello di Paglia di Firenze, Il Barbiere di
Siviglia, Nina Pazza per Amore, La
Sonnambula, L’ Italiana in Algeri, La
Cenerentola and La Fille du regiment, at the
Teatro Comunale in Florence in Le Comte
Ory and Falstaff, at the Teatro Carlo Felice in
Genoa in La Cenerentola, Le Comte Ory,
La Donna del lago and La Fille du regiment,
at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro in Matilde
di Shabran, Il Signor Bruschino, La
Cenerentola, Il Viaggio a Reims, La Donna
del lago, Stabat Mater, Le Comte Ory and Il
Barbiere di Siviglia, at the Teatro Regio,Turin
in La Sonnambula, Stabat Mater and Maria
Stuarda, at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in
Rome in Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Cantata,
at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna in Il
Viaggio a Reims, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La
Fille du regiment and Le Comte Ory, at the
Teatro Filarmonico in Verona in L’Italiana in
Algeri and Il Barbiere di Siviglia and at the
Rome Opera in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and
L’Italiana in Algeri..
Worldwide, he has appeared at the
Metropolitan Opera House, New York in Il
Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola,
L’Italiana in Algeri and Don Pasquale, at
the Lyric Opera of Chicago in La
Cenerentola, for San Francisco Opera in La
Cenerentola,at Covent Garden in Donizetti’s
Elisabetta, Don Pasquale and La Fille du
regiment,Rossini’s Otello, La Cenerentola
and Bellini’s La Sonnambula, at the Vienna
Staatsoper in Il Barbiere di Siviglia,
Tenor
L’Italiana in Algeri, Gianni Schicchi, La
Sonnambula and I Puritani, at the Salzburg
Festival in La Donna del lago, at the
Konzerthaus in Vienna in Semiramide, at
the Paris Ópera in L’Italiana in Algeri and
La Cenerentola, at the Châtelet in Paris in
Falstaff, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in La
Sonnambula, at Munich’s Bayerische
Staatsoper in L’Italiana in Algeri, at the
Teatro Real Madrid in Il Barbiere di
Siviglia,and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in
Barcelona
in
Maria
Stuarda
and
Semiramide.
He has sung under Riccardo Muti, James
Levine, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Wun
Chung, John Elliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti,
Neville Marriner, Antonio Pappano, Roberto
Abbado, Carlo Rizzi, Marcello Viotti, Jesùs
Lopez Cobos and Alberto Zedda.
Future engagements until 2013 are scheduled
for La Scala, Milan, the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York, at Covent Garden, London,
the Vienna Staatshoper, Rossini Opera Festival,
Teatro Comunale Bologna, Teatro Regio Turin,
Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera,
Teatro Real Madrid, Liceu Barcelona, Deutsche
Oper Berlin, Chicago Lyric Opera and in Japan.
Other engagements include La Traviata in
Buenos Aires, Gianni Schicchi in Frankfurt,
Maria Stuarda at the Macerata Opera
Festival, Luisa Miller at the Teatro Regio in
Turin and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria at the
Teatro Municipal in Sao Paulo.
He has received the Abbiati Prize from
Italian music critics, the Rossini d’Oro Prize
in Pesaro, Aureliano Pertile’s Prize, Francesco
Tamagno Prize, L’Opera Award Prize and the
Bellini Prize. His recordings have also won
many important prizes, and since March 2001
he has been an exclusive artist for Decca.
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Christopher
Franklin
Conductor
Born in San Francisco, USA, Christopher
Franklin began studying the violin at the age
of 6, graduating in 1990. He then studied
conducting, earning his Master in Music at
the University of Illinois and his Doctorate
under Frederik Prausnitz at the Peabody
Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. He was
awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study at
the Musikhochschule in Saarbrucken
Germany. At the Tanglewood Music Centre
he worked with Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Haitink
and Gustav Meier, and with Charles Bruck at
the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors in
Hancock, USA.
Christopher attended Gianluigi Gelmetti's
conducting class at the Accademia Chigiana
in Siena from 1997-1999, where he was
awarded the prestigious "Franco Ferrara"
Prize in August 1998.
Winner of the 1997 International Conducting
Competition "La Bottega" in Treviso, Italy,
Christopher was named Resident Conductor
and assistant to Peter Maag at the Teatro
Comunale in Treviso during 1997-98. He
made his Italian debut in Treviso conducting
Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann and
many symphonic concerts. Subsequently he
received the Gino Marinuzzi Award.
After a successful production of Il viaggio a
Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in
Pesaro at the helm of the Orquestra Sinfonica
de Galicia, he was brought to the attention of
several major Italian opera houses where he
has subsequently conducted on many
occasions.
Performances have included the modern-day
premiere of Francesco Cilea's Gina (CD
recording on the Bongiovanni label) at the
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and a new
production of Lehar’s Die Lustige Witwe at
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the Teatro Regio Turin. Other engagements
include a new production of Benjamin
Britten's Billy Budd at the Teatro Carlo
Felice Genoa and several symphonic
engagements, Cosi fan tutte at the Teatro
Massimo di Palermo, symphonic concerts at
the Fondazione Pergolesi-Spontini, Falstaff
with Alfonzo Antoniozzi in the autumn of
2005, and this autumn, Carmen, Werther
and Marco Tutino's La Lupa and Dylan
Dog.
At the Rossini Opera Festival in Wildbad,
Germany, he conducted L'amour coniugale
by Johann Simon Mayr, and Rossini’s La
Cambiale di Matrimonio, both scheduled
for CD release on the Naxos label, and will
return this summer for Rossini's La
Gazzetta, also to be simul-cast on SWRRadio.
Future operatic projects include a tour of
Italian theatres (As.Li.Co) with a new
production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly,
and a tour with tenor Juan Diego Flórez
throughout Europe, in Vienna, Cologne,
Munich and London, as well as in the United
States.
Recent symphonic engagements also include
a German tour with the Munchner
Symphoniker, concerts with the National
Philharmonic of Russia, SWR Orchester in
Germany, Orchestre de la Monnaie in
Bruxelles, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen,
Orchestra Verdi di Milan, Orchestra della
Toscana, Orchestra Filarmonica dell'Arena di
Verona, Orchestra Toscanini of Parma,
Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice in
Genoa, Orchestra da Camera di Padova, I
Pomeriggi Musicali of Milano and the
Accademia della Scala di Milano.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Founded in 1946 by Sir Thomas Beecham,
with his vision of bringing world-class
performances of the greatest music written to
the length of the country, the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, based in London,
continues to maintain Beecham’s legacy by
offering audiences in the UK and abroad the
highest possible standards of music-making,
accompanied by some of the most acclaimed
artists of the day.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra uses its
schedule in the capital as the springboard for
a comprehensive regional touring programme
including residencies in Northampton,
Croydon, Lowestoft, Wimbledon, Catford
and Crawley. The Orchestra also plays to tens
of thousands of people across the country in
open-air concerts throughout the summer
months each year, including a newly launched
series at Crystal Palace Bowl.
Since its formation, the Orchestra has been
directed by some of the world’s finest
conductors, most notably Rudolf Kempe,
Antal Doráti, André Previn and Vladimir
Ashkenazy. The RPO continues to thrive,
undertaking a busy concert, touring and
recording schedule, under the inspired
leadership of Maestro Daniele Gatti (Music
Director since 1996). The Orchestra is
pleased to announce that from the beginning
of the 2009-2010 season, Charles Dutoit will
become Artistic Director and Principal
Conductor, with Daniele Gatti continuing as
Conductor Laureate.
As an international orchestra, the RPO has
toured more than thirty countries in the last
five years, including performances for the late
Pope John Paul II in the Vatican and the
President of China in Tiananmen Square.
Recent tours have included the RPO’s first
ever tour to Egypt, performing in the Cairo
and Alexandria opera houses with Leonard
Slatkin, and performances in Spain, Italy and
Germany.
Its 2007-2008 Royal Albert Hall season
includes a number of spectacular concerts
ranging from popular classics such as Holst’s
The Planets Suite and Rimsky-Korsakov’s
Scheherazade to the Best of Broadway and
Filmharmonic. The series features many
internationally acclaimed artists including
Leonard Slatkin, Sir Thomas Allen and John
Lill. The RPO’s London Residency at
Cadogan Hall complements the immensity of
the Orchestra’s performances at the Royal
Albert Hall by offering a range of concerts
within the intimate surroundings of London’s
newest concert venue. The 2007 series
features renowned artists of the calibre of
Sir Andrew Davis, Tasmin Little and Vernon
Handley. The RPO also looks forward to
performing a new series of concerts at the
newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall in
Spring 2008.
The RPO extends its artistic work through a
vibrant and innovative Community and
Education programme. Using music as a
powerful and motivating force, the RPO
works in a variety of settings including
projects with young homeless people, youth
clubs, the probation service, schools and
families. RPO Community and Education
projects promote live music-making,
reflecting the diversity of the individuals
involved, as well as the Orchestra’s own
background.
The RPO records widely for all the major
commercial record companies, with no less
than eight of its CDs featuring in the record
charts last year. The Orchestra also has its
own record label, which includes the popular
Here Come The Classics™ series. These
recordings reflect the versatility of the RPO’s
repertoire, ranging from popular orchestral
and choral works to film classics and music
from the musicals.
www.rpo.co.uk
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Juan Diego
With
Flórez
TENOR
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Christopher Franklin
Concert programme
4th October 2007 7.30pm -- Cadogan Hall
First Part
Sinfonia
La Cenerentola
Deh troncate i ceppi suoi
Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra
Oh muto asil del pianto
Guglielmo Tell
Sinfonia
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Cessa di più resistere
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
G. Rossini
Second Part
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All’udir del padre afflitto
Bianca e Fernando
V. Bellini
Sinfonia
Norma
Questa o quella
Parmi veder le lagrime
Rigoletto
Rigoletto
G. Verdi
Sinfonia
La Favorita
G. Donizetti
Linda si ritirò
Linda di Chamounix