PMF 〓 Gergiev will conduct opera in 2020

2018/12/14

The Pacific Music Festival, which is held in Sapporo in the summer, will challenge opera performances in 2020. Valery Gergiev, the artistic director of the music festival, announced at a press conference held in Tokyo. PMF was founded in 1990, and in 2020 it is a milestone of 30th anniversary.

Mozart “Don Giovanni” will perform at the music festival of 2020. The director and singer are cooperated with the Mariinsky Theater, which is the home ground of Gergiev. The PMF orchestra under Gergiev enters the pit. The hall is the Sapporo Cultural Arts Theater “hitaru” which opened in October this year.

Also, it was revealed that the winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition will be invited to the music festival next year in 2019. Gergiev is the chairman of the competition. “Woodpipe / brass instrument category” will be newly established next year from the competition. The music festival is said to invite the winner of a woodwind instrument as a soloist. In the past, the music festival invited Dmitry Masleev, who won the piano division in 2015, to the music festival.

Photo：Pacific Music Festival


　　　　Click here for details　▷


How about this ?

  1. LONDON 〓 Joshua Bell extends contract with Academy of St Martin in the Fields

  2. BERLIN 〓 Berliner Philharmoniker’s Principal horn player David Cooper was leaving

  3. BOLOGNA 〓 Teatro Comunale di Bologna presents its program for 2019

  4. NEW YORK 〓 The Metropolitan Opera has announced the end of its free streaming service “Nightly Met Opera Streams”

  5. BERLIN 〓 Herbert Blomstedt, Swedish conductor has fallen and been hospitalized

  6. PARIS 〓 A couple of opera singers have set up a fund to support Australian freelance artists

  7. OSLO 〓 Norwegian National Opera announced the lineup of the 2018/2019 season

  8. LOS ANGELES 〓 Domingo will challenge a new role

  9. GENEVA 〓 Jonathan Nott will step down as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at the end of the 2025/2026 season

  10. TOKYO 〓 Anne-Sophie Mutter was awarded the 31st “Praemium Imperiale”

  11. FORT WORTH 〓 The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition has announced the 30 contestants

  12. LONDON 〓 Mutter, a new coronavirus infection, joins the quartet online

  13. BERLIN 〓 Barenboim Quits Berlin Philharmonic’s “European Concert”

  14. MOSCOW 〓 Tchaikovsky International Competition is different from the past

  15. KAOHSIUNG 〓 Taiwan’s largest art center opened

  1. No comments yet.

  1. No trackbacks yet.