Arrangement from Thursday 29 August to Sunday 1st September 2024,
3 nights
Festival
Concert of the Wiener Philharmoniker, the 29
L. van Beethoven : Concerto pour piano n°1 en do majeur
H. Berlioz : Symphonie fantastique
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Piano :
Daniil Trifonov
Audiences and critics worldwide agree: Daniil Trifonov is an exceptional pianist and has catapulted himself into the top tier of artists with his technically brilliant and at the same time expressively virtuoso piano playing. Trifonov, whose full name is Daniil Olegovich Trifonov, was born in 1991 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and received his first piano lessons at the age of five. He later studied piano and composition at the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow and at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Trifonov’s extensive repertoire spans epochs from solo concertos to chamber music and large orchestral concerts. In addition to the classical piano repertoire, Trifonov regularly performs his own compositions with great success and recognition. In the course of his concert activities, the pianist has worked with renowned orchestras and renowned conductors, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna, Berlin and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, the Mariinsky Orchestra or the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as Sir Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev and Riccardo Muti, among others. Trifonov’s CD recordings have also been nominated several times for Grammy Awards and his album "Transcendental" was awarded the prize for Best Instrumental Solo Album 2018.
Daniil Trifonov♪Grosses Festspielhaus
Les Contes d’Hoffmann - J. Offenbach, the 30, nouvelle production, 18h30
Marc Minkowski
French conductor Marc Minkowski was born on October 4, 1962 in Paris. His passion for music began when he was a college student at the Ecole Alsacienne. In 1979, even before his majority, Marc Minkowski joined the Lille orchestra under the direction of Jean-Claude Casadesus. Marc Minkowski performed very quickly in many orchestras, in particular among pioneer ensembles of the Baroque revival such as Les Arts Florissants or the Clemencic Consort in Vienna. Marc Minkowski quickly took an interest in conducting, which he studied in the United States at the Pierre Monteux Conducting School. At only nineteen, Marc Minkowski founded Les Musiciens du Louvre, an ensemble which took an active part in the Baroque revival, before broadening its repertoire by approaching works by Mozart, Rossini, Offenbach Wagner and many others. Marc Minkowski has been director of the Opéra national de Bordeaux since September 2016, his contract is extended until August 2022.
Marc Minkowski♪ - Mariame Clément
Kathryn Lewek,
Benjamin Bernheim
Born in Paris in 1985, Benjamin Bernheim is a lyric tenor whose debut album was released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2019 and has since been followed by a second in 2022. Bernheim is considered an outstanding interpreter of the Italian and French repertoire. After completing his studies, he was accepted into the Zurich Opera Studio. In 2012 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival, after which he also appeared at the Whitsun Festival in Salzburg. Striking stations in his burgeoning career included the Semperoper Dresden, the Zurich Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House and the Teatro alla Scala. In 2019, the young artist made his acclaimed role debut as Duca in “Rigoletto” at the Bavarian State Opera, after causing a sensation as Alfredo in a sensational production of “La Traviata” at the Opéra de Paris with his stage partner Pretty Yende as Violetta. Don’t miss this enchanting voice and make your own impression of this brilliant tenor to whom the future belongs!
Benjamin Bernheim♪, Marc Mauillon, Christian van Horn
Grosses Festspielhaus
Symphony No. 6 in A minor - G. Mahler, the 31
Sir Simon Rattle
Simon Rattle is a British conductor, born January 19, 1955 in Liverpool, this student of piano and violin began a career as a percussionist before taking the direction of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 1974. Simon Rattle rose to fame in head of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted from 1980 to 1988. Known in 1994, Sir Simon Rattle was consecrated in 2002 when he took the reins of the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic, succeeding Claudio Abbado. In July 2012, Sir Simon Rattle took the lead of the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games. Since September 2017 Sir Simon Rattle is Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Sir Simon Rattle♪Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Grosses Festspielhaus
