Don Giovanni - Metropolitan Opera
Don Giovanni - Metropolitan Opera
Don Giovanni - Metropolitan Opera
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The Cast<br />
Edward Gardner<br />
conductor (gloucester, england)<br />
this season <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Giovanni</strong> at the Met, <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Giovanni</strong> and Martinu˚ ’s Julietta for English<br />
National <strong>Opera</strong>, and Britten’s Death in Venice, also with ENO on tour in Amsterdam.<br />
met appearances Carmen (debut, 2011).<br />
career highlights He has been music director of English National <strong>Opera</strong> since 2007, where he<br />
has led Faust, Boris Godunov, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Der Rosenkavalier, Harrison<br />
Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy, Peter Grimes, and a double-bill of The Rite of Spring and<br />
Bluebeard’s Castle. He has also recently led Death in Venice for his debut at La Scala, The<br />
Rake’s Progress for the Paris <strong>Opera</strong>, and Britten’s Turn of the Screw at the Glyndebourne<br />
Festival. He was appointed principal guest conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony<br />
Orchestra in 2010, and has also led the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony<br />
Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, BBC Proms Orchestra, Netherlands Radio<br />
Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic, and Rotterdam Philharmonic, among<br />
others. He received the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2008, an Olivier Award in 2009,<br />
and an OBE this past summer for his Services to Music in the Queen’s Birthday Honors.<br />
Emma Bell<br />
soprano (stratford-upon-avon, england)<br />
this season <strong>Don</strong>na Elvira in <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Giovanni</strong> at the Met, the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro<br />
at the Paris <strong>Opera</strong>, and Elsa in Lohengrin with the Welsh National <strong>Opera</strong>.<br />
met appearances Countess Almaviva (debut, 2009).<br />
career highlights Recent engagements include <strong>Don</strong>na Elvira at La Scala, Elettra in Idomeneo<br />
with English National <strong>Opera</strong> and at the Edinburgh Festival, the Governess in Britten’s Turn<br />
of the Screw in Madrid, Leonore in Fidelio with <strong>Opera</strong> North, the title role in the world<br />
premiere of Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune at the Bregenz Festival and later at Covent Garden,<br />
Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Covent Garden, the Fox in The Cunning Little<br />
Vixen at the Glyndebourne Festival, and the Countess at Paris’s Bastille <strong>Opera</strong>. She has<br />
also sung Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Micaëla in Carmen with Berlin’s Komische Oper,<br />
the title role of Rodelinda at Paris’s Châtelet, and Violetta in La Traviata with English<br />
National <strong>Opera</strong>.
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