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Fabio Luisi Extends Contract With Danish National Symphony Orchestra

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(Credit: Monika Rittershaus) The Danish National Symphony Orchestra has announced that it will extend the contract of its Chief Conductor Fabio Luisi until 2026. Luisi will lead the Danish National Symphony Orchestra season’s opener on September 3, 2020 in a concert featuring soprano Elsa Dreisig and mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. “With Fabio Luisi {…}

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Fabio Luisi, Tamara Mumford & Krassimira Stoyanova Lead Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Redesigned Fall 2020 Season

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(Credit: Barbara Luisi) The Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced on Friday that it will present a new curated fall season of short concerts with smaller ensembles playing to a maximum audience of 75 people per performance. The redesigned fall season at the Meyerson Symphony Center, with a maximum seating capacity of 2,602, will begin on Sept. 4. The fall season will {…}

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Fabio Luisi, Jamie Barton, Anne Schwanewilms Headline Dallas Symphony’s 2020-21 Season

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(Credit: Sylvia Elzafon) The Dallas Symphony has announced its 2020-21, which launches the tenure of famed conductor Fabio Luisi as Music Director. For the purposes of this article, the focus will be on opera and vocal performances. The season will open with a gala concert led by Luisi that will feature music of Massenet, Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Verdi, and {…}

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Sesto Quatrini Replaces Fabio Luisi In Martina Franca

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The Festival Valle d’Itra in Martina Franca has announced a cast change for its premiere of Antonio Manfroce’s “Ecuba.” The festival announced that due to illness Fabio Luisi will not be able to conduct the performance. As a result, Sesto Quatrini will conduct the two performances scheduled for July 30 and August 4, 2019. Quatrini is a well-established conductor who has {…}

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Tito Ceccherini To Stand In For Fabio Luisi In ‘La Grand Macabre’ At Opernhaus Zürich

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The Opernhaus Zürich has announced that Italian conductor Fabio Luisi, its General Music Director, has opted out of his role as musical director for the February/March performances of György Ligeti’s “La Grand Macabre.” As a result, Maestro Tito Ceccherini, “an acclaimed interpreter of the modern repertoire” according to Opera Musica, will stand in as musical director for the upcoming performances {…}

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Fabio Luisi To Become Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director

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Fabio Luisi has been named the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s music director. The orchestra announced that the 59-year-old Italian conductor would succeed Jaap van Zweden, who will become the New York Philharmonic’s music director. In a press release, Luisi announced that over the next years he will reduce his contracts in Europe, where he is the principal conductor of three companies, {…}

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Opera di Firenze 2017-18 Review – La Favorite: Sublime Cast Led By Fabio Luisi Salvages Dull Production

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Donizetti’s opera “La Favorite,” originally written in French for the L’Opera, Paris, was quickly translated into Italian, and soon became the preferred version. However, in the last quarter of the 20th century this trend was reversed and today it is the French version that is more widely performed, and for the first time, Florence’s Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has decided {…}

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ARTE to Broadcast Teatro La Fenice’s New Year’s Concert Conducted By Fabio Luisi Starring John Osborn and Rosa Feola

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On Jan. 1 Fabio Luisi, one of the leading conductors of Italian operas, will lead the New Year’s concert from the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The first part of the concert will include Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and will be followed by an intermission. The second part will be dedicated to great operatic repertoire and will include soprano Rosa Feola {…}

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Fabio Sartori & Eleonora Buratto Headline Teatro La Fenice’s New Years Concert

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The Teatro La Fenice is set to broadcast its 2024 New Year’s concert on Rai 1. Fabio Luisi will lead the concert with soloists Eleonora Buratto and Fabio Sartori and will include music by Johannes Brahms, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Amilcare Ponchielli. The concert will be performed four times on Dec. 29, 30, 31, 2023, and Jan. 1, 2024. The New Year’s {…}