Published: 13 June 2011
Category: Artists

Jérémie Rhorer
Conductor Jérémie Rhorer has a month of Mozart planned with major engagements in Paris and at the Barbican Centre in London.

On June 15, Jérémie conducts the first night of a run of Mozart’s great opera Idomeneo at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées with his orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie. The cast includes Sophie Karthäuser as Ilia and Richard Croft as the King Idomeneo. Stéphane Braunschweig directs. There will be further performances on June 17, 19, 21 and 22.

Jérémie then embarks on a tour of Mozart’s sublime C Minor Mass, also with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, which he performs in Paris, Dortmund and then a debut at the Barbican Centre in London on June 28. The performance at the Barbican is part of the Great Performers Series at the hall, and includes singers Sally Matthews, Ann Hallenberg and Rainer Trost.

These concerts come at the end of a busy season for Rhorer. Further ahead he has engagements for the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, with the Kammerorchester Basel and Angelika Kirchschlager, and for the Vienna Staatsoper where he will conduct Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

Richard Egarr
Also conducting in the Barbican’s Great Performers series this month is Richard Egarr, who directs the Academy of Ancient Music in a concert performance of Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera on June 24. with soloists Rosemary Joshua (Sandrina), Elizabeth Watts (Serpetta), Klara Ek (Arminda), Daniela Lehner (Ramiro), James Gilchrist (Il Contino Belfiore), Andrew Kennedy (Podesta) and Andrew Foster-Williams (Nardo).

Also in June, Egarr performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations in recital at the East Neuk Festival, and conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra there too in an eclectic programme of J.S. Bach, John Adams, Ives, Schubert and Vaughan Williams.

Later in the summer, Egarr conducts staged performances of Rossini’s Il signor Bruschino in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Berlin Konzerthaus for the Netherlands Opera Academy/National Youth Orchestra of Holland.

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