THE MARIINSKY PROJECT

The Mariinsky Theatre, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, April 09

VWM, Ibermúsica and the Mariinsky Theatre have an ongoing partnership to bring the Mariinsky’s unique opera and ballet productions to the Teatro Pérez Galdós in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria which began in 2007 with Wagner’s Ring under the baton of its Artistic Director, Valery Gergiev. The third episode of the project commences in April 2009 with Gergiev conducting performances of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth. The controversial work released in 1934 was subsequently banned by the Soviet regime for almost 30 years but has since been acknowledged as one of opera's most powerful masterpieces. Click here to read about the first two episodes of the Mariinsky Project

CITY OF DREAMS: VIENNA 1900 - 1935
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mitsuko Uchida, Christian Tetzlaff /
Philharmonia Orchestra: February 2009 - October 2009
A major multi-disciplinary project exploring the music and culture of Vienna between 1895 and 1935. The project aims to present the music of Mahler, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Berg in its historical and social context, as well as in the context of the art, craft, design, architecture, literature, philosophy and science of the period. Over 9 months Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra will perform concerts in more than 20 cities worldwide, alongside chamber concerts, lectures, film screenings, education events and a major series of online resources, bringing together specialists and materials from the most significant international collections.

75TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
Kent Nagano / Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal: Spring 2009

VWM is organising a tour with Kent Nagano and the splendid and much recorded Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in April 2009. Nagano became Music Director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal from the 2006/07 season and 2009 marks the orchestra's 75th Anniversary year. This will be Kent Nagano's first major European tour with his new orchestra and will attract substantial international publicity. Among cities participating so far are Baden-Baden, Barcelona, Brussels, Hamburg, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Valencia and Vienna. The ambitious and wide-ranging programme includes Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with VWM artist, Viviane Hagner, and works to showcase the orchestra's versatility and virtuosity: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (soloists Klaus Florian Vogt and Christian Gerhaher), Strauss: Ein Alpensinfonie and Bartók: Suite from the Miraculous Mandarin feature alongside works by Tan Dun and Debussy.