US2009～2010年シーズンのハイライト

2009~2010年音楽シーズンの開幕が話題になっていますが、ロスの新聞Los Angeles Timesは, Los Angeles Philharmonic への弱冠28歳の Dudamel の登場と New York Philharmonic への42歳の Alan Gilbert の登場を並べ，ロス・オペラでの　Ring の　Siegfried の予定通りの上演と Dallas　が 新しいOpera 劇場 を建設したことを上げています.

なお、Dudamelのロス・フィルにChicago Symphony から首席 flutisit，Mathieu Dufour　が移籍入団したことが紹介されています．

Alan Gilbert は，委嘱の新曲でシーズン冒頭を始め（終曲はベルリオーズ），その後も20~21世紀音楽をさかんに取り上げるようですが，Dudamel も　前任者Salonen　の伝統を維持するようです．　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Gilbert は前任者　Lorin Maazel と何かにつけて比較されそうで，その克服が課題のようです．もっとも彼は，New York で，Philharmonic のViolinisit の両親の元で生まれ，母親は未だ現役です．

他方Dudamel のチケットの売れ行きは，予想外に好調なようです．

あとは写真と短い原文をご参照下さい．　　　　　　　

 

 

Fall classical music preview: It's not just Dudamel

September 12, 2009 |  4:30 pm

Did someone say recession?  Many music institutions are suffering like everyone else, but, hey, hope  springs eternal and in certain classical sectors business is booming.  Gustavo Dudamel takes over in Los Angeles, Alan Gilbert in New York. Los Angeles Opera continues its march down the “Nibelung” aisle with “Siegfried,” three quarters of the way to wearing Wagner’s “Ring.” Dallas has a new opera house. 

Festivals flourish, as well, from Costa Mesa to Krakow. The Chinese are planning their Orange County invasion. The Beats are set to occupy Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Brits have their sights set on Poland. When times get tough, the tough, the music world prays, go to concerts and the opera.

See the season’s most-anticipated music events by clicking on the photo gallery.

 

'Siegfried' (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times) The third of the four “Ring” operas is no one's favorite Wagner. This talky, testosteronic, lung-punishing endurance test for the protagonist heldentenor can also be a tribulation for the sitzfleisch. A real woman doesn't appear until you've already been on the premises for more than four hours. Does this scare you off? If so, ye fidgeting operatic faint of heart, "Siegfried" is not for you. But patient listeners with ears of iron, active imaginations and behinds of leather get rewarded with some spectacular music and one of the most ecstatic of all love duets. And there's a dragon. Besides that, Achim Freyer's production, we are promised, will be the most elaborate of his "Ring" productions so far, which means five potentially glorious hours in the land of phantasmagoria.   Gustavo Dudamel (Anna Hult/For The Times / September 13, 2009) If you've attended a concert conducted by the 28-year-old Venezuelan wonder, then you already know why this city is in a tizzy about his debut as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic this fall. If you have yet to catch Dudamel and have enough curiosity to be reading this, you surely must want to know what all the fuss is about. After Dudamel's Oct. 8 inaugural gala at Walt Disney Concert Hall (which will have a delayed television broadcast Oct. 21 on PBS and a Nov. 23 DVD release), he has 19 regular subscription concerts this fall. Many have already sold out, but don't forget that the chorus bench seats behind the orchestra go on sale for $17 two weeks before most concerts. Only the TV cameras and the musicians get better close-ups of the conductor.     Alan Gilbert (Jennifer S. Altman/For The Times / September 13, 2009) This season, 42-year-old Alan Gilbert becomes the first New York-born music director of the New York Philharmonic. The New York press has been screaming that the nation's oldest orchestra must catch up with the times, and that is precisely Gilbert's goal. But he's got his work cut out for him. The players happened to be quite happy under the veteran Lorin Maazel. The conservative audiences were content with the flashy and great playing under Maazel. Gilbert, a highly capable but charismatically challenged conductor, puts out the challenge from the get-go: He opens his gala Wednesday with a new work by the Modernist Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg, whom he has appointed the New York Philharmonic's composer in residence. He even has Renée Fleming to sing Messiaen instead of Massenet, although he ends with a crowd-pleaser (Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique"). The program can be seen on PBS.