Page 35 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024

Classical and opera
Elektra

Though he will be returning to Covent Garden to conduct further instalments of The Ring, Antonio
Pappano’s final new production as the Royal Opera’s music director is Christof Loy’s new staging
of Strauss’s caustic tragedy. Nina Stemme takes the title role, with Sara Jakubiak as Chrysothemis,
and Karita Mattila as Clytemnestra; Lukasz Goliński is Orestes.
12-30 January, Royal Opera House, London

Bryce Dessner premiere
Artist-in-residence at the Southbank Centre this season, Alice Sara Ott joins the Philharmonia to
give the UK premiere of the piano concerto written for her by composer and guitarist Bryce
Dessner. Elim Chan conducts, and the programme also includes Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.
15 February, Royal Festival Hall, London

Song from the Uproar

UK premiere … Missy Mazzoli. Photograph: Marylene Mey

The climax of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion day devoted to the music of Missy
Mazzoli is the UK premiere of her 2012 multimedia chamber opera. Subtitled The Lives and
Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt, it explores in music and film the extraordinary experiences of the
early 20th-century traveller; Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers and members of the BBCSO,
with mezzo soprano Kitty Whately as Isabelle.
25 February, Barbican, London

Big Bruckner Weekend
Performances of Bruckner’s symphonies will no doubt abound during his bicentenary year; the
Royal Northern Sinfonia offers the opportunity to experience three of them in three days. The
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Hallé and the BBC Scottish Symphony bring the Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth Symphony respectively, while the Sinfonia and its chorus perform Bruckner’s
great F minor Mass over a weekend.
1-3 March, The Glasshouse, Gateshead

Death in Venice

Tenor Mark Le Brocq is Gustav von Aschenbach, with Roderick Williams in the multiple baritone
roles, Alexander Chance as the Voice of Apollo and Antony César as Tadzio, in Welsh National
Opera’s new production of Benjamin Britten’s final opera, which is based upon Thomas Mann’s
novella. Olivia Fuchs directs and Leo Hussain conducts.
7 & 9 March, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, then touring to 11 May