La Scala complete Symphonic and Recital programme: 2014 — 2015
Symphonic Programme
29, 30 September, 1 October 2014
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Franz Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung Hob. XXI:2 Oratorio
Julia Kleiter, soprano
Peter Sonn, tenor
Thomas E. Bauer, bass – baritone
Chorus Master: Bruno Casoni
12, 14, 15 November 2014
Filarmonica della Scala
Conductor and soloist: Daniel Barenboim
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto n. 27 in si bem. magg. K 595 per pianoforte e orchestra
Gustav Mahler
Sinfonia n. 9 in re magg.
21 December 2014
Christmas Concert
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Conductor: Philippe Jordan
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis in re magg. op. 123
Edith Haller, soprano
Daniela Sindram, mezzosoprano
Stuart Skelton, tenor
Günther Groissböck, bass
Chorus Master: Bruno Casoni
23, 24, 26 January 2015
Filarmonica della Scala
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Pianoforte: Rudolf Buchbinder
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto n. 5 in mi bem. magg. op. 73 “Imperatore”
Béla Bartók
Il Mandarino meraviglioso op. 19 Suite dal balletto
16 February 2015
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Violin: Julian Rachlin
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Concerto in mi min. op. 64 per violino e orchestra
Gustav Mahler
Sinfonia n. 1 in re magg. “Titan”
13 March 2015
Münchner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sinfonia n. 3 in mi bem. magg. op. 55 “Eroica”
Sinfonia n. 6 in fa magg. op. 68 “Pastorale”
16, 18, 21 March 2015
Celebrating Georges Prêtre’s 90th Birthday
Filarmonica della Scala
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Anton Bruckner
Sinfonia n. 8 in do min.
13, 14, 15 April 2015
Filarmonica della Scala
Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi
Baritone: Thomas Hampson
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder
Anton Bruckner
Sinfonia n. 4 in mi bem. magg. “Romantische”
7 September 2015
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
Pianoforte: Daniil Trifonov
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto n. 1 in si bem. min. op. 23 for pianoforte and orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich
Sinfonia n. 8 in do min. op. 65
Song Recitals
5 January 2015
Tenor: Ian Bostridge
Pianoforte: Thomas Adès
4 May 2015
Soprano: Diana Damrau
Pianoforte: Helmut Deutsch
31 May 2015
Soprano: Anja Harteros
Pianoforte: Wolfram Rieger
10 May 2015
Bass: René Pape
Pianoforte: Camillo Radicke
5 July 2015
Mezzosoprano: Daniela Barcellona
Pianoforte: Alessandro Vitiello
6 September 2015
Tenor: Ramón Vargas
Pianoforte: Mzia Bachtouridze
15 November 2015
Baritone: Christian Gerhaher
Pianoforte: Gerold Huber
Schubert Series
Pianoforte: Daniel Barenboim
3 December 2014
Franz Schubert
Sonata in la min. D 537
Sonata in la magg. D 664
Sonata in la magg. D 959
15 December 2014
Franz Schubert
Sonata in si magg. D 575
Sonata in sol magg. D 894
Sonata in do min. D 958
12 December 2014
Franz Schubert
Sonata in mi bem. magg. D 568
Sonata in la min. D 784
Sonata in re magg. D 850
22 December 2014
Franz Schubert
Sonata in la min. D 845
Sonata in si bem. magg. D
Special Concerts
3, 4 October 2014
In memoriam Claudio Abbado
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem
Anja Harteros, soprano
Elīna Garanča mezzoprano
Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, bass
Chorus Master: Bruno Casoni
15 October 2014
Celebrating Georges Prêtre’s 90th Birthday
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Franz Schubert
Sinfonia n. 2 in si bem. magg. D 125
Johann Strauss, father and son
Polke e Walzer
9, 14 February 2015
Filarmonica della Scala
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sinfonia n. 4 in si bem. magg. op. 60
Jean Sibelius
Sinfonia n. 5 in mi bem. magg. op. 82
25, 26, 27 March 2015
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Conductor: Bruno Casoni
Giuseppe Verdi
da Quattro Pezzi sacri
Ave Maria
Laudi alla Vergine Maria
Anton Bruckner
Ave Maria in fa magg.
Locus iste in do magg.
Messa n. 2 in mi min.
11 May 2015
Pianoforte: Maurizio Pollini
21 June 2015
Baritone: Leo Nucci
Pianoforte: James Vaughan
30 July 2015
Tenor: José Carreras
Pianoforte: Lorenzo Bavaj
25 October 2015
Baritone: Thomas Hampson
Martin Grubinger and The New Percussive Planet Ensemble
Expo 2015 – International Orchestra Festival
2 May 2015
Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Anton Bruckner
Sinfonia n. 7 in mi magg.
25, 26 June 2015
Wiener Philharmoniker
Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien
Coro di Voci Bianche dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Conductor: Mariss Jansons
Gustav Mahler
Sinfonia n. 3 in re min.
Bernarda Fink, mezzosoprano
Chorus Master: Johannes Prinz
Chorus Master di Voci Bianche: Bruno Casoni
19 July 2015
Filarmonica della Scala
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Pianoforte: Kristian Bezuidenhout
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture from Idomeneo
“Ch’io mi scordi di te…Non temer, amato bene” in mi bem. magg. K 505 recitativo e aria da concerto for soprano, pianoforte and orchestra
Concerto n. 22 inmi bem.magg. K 482 for pianoforte and orchestra
Sinfonia n. 36 in domagg. K 425 “Linz”
1 August 2015
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Iván Fischer
Pianoforte: Yefim Bronfman
Béla Bartók
Scene ungheresi for orchestra
Concerto n. 3 for pianoforte and orchestra
Gustav Mahler
Sinfonia n. 4 in sol magg. “Das himmlische Leben”
Miah Persson, soprano
21, 23 August 2015
Progetto “El Sistema”
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Infantil de Venezuela
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo fantastique op. 3
Divertimento da “Le baiser de la fée”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sinfonia n. 4 in fa min. op. 36
24 August 2015
Progetto “El Sistema”
Sinfónica Juvenil “Teresa Carreño”
Conductor: Christian Vásquez
27 August 2015
Progetto “El Sistema”
Sinfónica Juvenil de Caracas
Conductor: Dietrich Paredes
30 August 2015
Progetto “El Sistema”
Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
La Tempesta op. 18 Fantasia sinfonica
Romeo e Giulietta Ouverture-fantasia
Sinfonia n. 6 in simin. op. 74 “Patetica”
1 September 2015
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Andris Nelsons
Gustav Mahler
Sinfonia n. 6 in la min.
3 September 2015
Progetto “El Sistema”
Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar
Coro Nacional Juvenil Simón Bolívar
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sinfonia n. 1 in do magg. op. 21
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Chôros n. 10
Antonio Estévez
Cantata Criolla
4 September 2015
Progetto “El Sistema”
Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar
Coro Nacional Juvenil Simón Bolívar
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sinfonia n. 9 in re min. op. 125
Genia Kühmeier, soprano
Wiebke Lehmkuhl, mezzosoprano
Brian Hymel, tenor
Georg Zeppenfeld, bass
11 September 2015
Orchestre de Paris
Conductor: Paavo Järvi
Pianoforte: Hélène Grimaud
Robert Schumann
Concerto in la min. op. 54 for pianoforte and orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sinfonia n. 5 in mi min. op. 64
12 September 2015
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Gustav Mahler
Sinfonia n. 9 in re magg.
11 October 2015
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Luigi Cherubini
da Anacréon, ou L’amour fugitif Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sinfonia n. 2 in re magg. op. 36
Sinfonia n. 5 in do min. op. 67
15 October 2015
Concentus Musicus Wien
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sinfonia n. 8 in fa magg. op. 93
Sinfonia n. 7 in la magg. op. 92
18 October 2015
Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst
Olivier Messiaen
Ascension
Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie op. 64
27 October 2015
Closing Concert Expo 2015
Mezzosoprano: Cecilia Bartoli
Conductor: Diego Fasolis
I Barocchisti
“Omaggio a Vivaldi”
Graham Spicer, aka ‘Gramilano’, is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Carla Fracci.
Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.
He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.
