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On Wednesday and Thursday this week, Jonathan Darlington will take his leave from the Duisburg Philharmonic. After almost ten as music director of one of Germany’s oldest orchestras it is not easy to say goodbye. That is why Mr Darlington specifically chose the programme of his last concert to end on a hopeful note: With Mahler’s 2nd symphony, “The resurrection” …
Photo: Christoph Müller-Girod
Jonathan Darlington usually creates concert programmes in which the pieces are connected by a strong inner dramaturgy. This week’s supscription week concert is an exeption to this rule. Instead of a linking theme or context, the pieces form a contrast in many ways. Hear more on the “eclectic” selection of Mozart’s oboe concerto, Chen’s “Extasy” and Holst’s ” The Planets” in the music director’s ‘Quick Words’ Video …
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Due to an indisposition, tenor Christoph Prégardien was forced to cancel yesterday’s concert on short notice. The chamber concert with Schumann’s romances and songs has therefore been moved to May 15th, 19h at the Philharmonie Mercatorhalle, Duisburg. All tickets remain valid.
Jonathan Darlington’s last concerts in Duisburg include a chamber concert. Tonight, he will appear as pianist accompanying his old friend and colleague Christoph Prégardien to Robert Schumann’s Lieder and Romances. The lyrical tenor is also the current season’s Artits in Residence at the Duisburg Philharmonic …
Jonathan Darlington took the inspiration for the next concert’s programme from a famous predecessor: the conductor Hans Richter. Read the programme notes to discover the points of connection between Edward Elgar’s Symphony No.1 and Johannes Brahms’ 2nd Piano Concerto… more …
A house debut! Jonathan Darlington will conduct Gluck’s baroque masterpiece “Orphée et Euridice” at the Grand Théâtre de Geneve, opening March 9th. The production will also be an occasion for a reunion with old friends … more …
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Read the critic’s reviews of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito and listen to audience feedback caught on video after the premiere…
Vancouver Opera is very pleased to announce that Music Director Jonathan Darlington’s appointment has been extended to 2015. Mr. Darlington has been VO’s Music Director since May 2005, having been appointed VO’s Principal Conductor in 2002. His current contract was to have expired in 2012.
“My partnership with Jonathan has been a highlight of my opera career,” said James W. Wright, General Director of Vancouver Opera. “His musicality, professionalism and depth of feeling for the music is inspiring to me, to the orchestra, chorus and principal singers, and to the whole company. I am so happy that he will continue to lead Vancouver Opera’s musical forces.”
Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” opens tomorrow and Vancouver Opera treats us to more un-cut and authentic glimpses into the production and rehearsal process. Watch an interview with Jonathan Darlington, in which he plays the fortepiano, and a rehearsal excerpt, in which the Maestro even sings …