Zubin Mehta directs works by Richard Strauss at the Palau de les Arts
03.06.2014
Valencia. Zubin Mehta will conduct works by Richard Strauss tomorrow, Wednesday, June 4, at the Auditori, in a concert with which the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía joins the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the German composer.
On the lectern are the scores of Also sprach Zarathustra , Der Rosenkavalier (Suite) and Vier letzte Lieder (Frühling, September, Beim Schlafengehen, Im Abendrot) with the voice of the German soprano Dorothea Röschmann.
The maestro from Bombay is one of the most respected conductors in the Strauss repertoire, which he has conducted on previous occasions with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.
In June 2010, the president of the Festival del Mediterrani inaugurated this event with Salome , the first Strauss opera performed at the Palau de les Arts. Mehta himself included the 'Final Scene' of this work for the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana (OCV) performance at Xacobeo Classics .
Also during that same season, Zubin Mehta conducted the symphonic poems Don Quixote and Ein Heldenleben . With this same program, the OCV, under Maestro Mehta's musical direction, embarked on a tour of Spain and Italy, with performances at the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Castell de Peralada Festival, and the Ravenna and Armonie d'Arte festivals in Italy.
Dorothea Röschmann
Born in Flensburg, Germany, Dorothea Röschmann is one of the most admired singers of her generation. In 1995, she gained international acclaim singing the role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Since then, she has returned regularly to the Festival in roles such as Donna Elvira, Countess Almaviva, Ilia, Servilia, Nannetta, Pamina, and Vitellia, under the batons of Claudio Abbado, Christoph von Dohnányi, Daniel Harding, Charles Mackerras, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
In 2012 she made her debut at La Scala in Milan singing Contessa di Almaviva, and is a regular guest at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Staatsoper Vienna and Covent Garden.
Recent concert appearances include ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic with Bernard Haitink and Simon Rattle, the Vienna Philharmonic with Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim, the Munich Philharmonic with James Levine, the Cleveland Orchestra with Welser-Möst, the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Daniel Harding, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra with Nézet-Séguin, as well as the New York Philharmonic with Alan Gilbert.
A prestigious recital performer, Dorothea Röschmann has given acclaimed concerts in venues such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade and at the Edinburgh and Munich Festivals, with Daniel Barenboim at the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin and with Mitsuko Uchida at the Lucerne Festival.
