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Orchestra, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Holland, Tonhalle Zürich, Orchestre de la
Suisse Romande, Swedish Radio, Stockholm
Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic and
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras. In North
America, he has worked with such orchestras
as the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota,
San Francisco, Houston, Pittsburgh, Detroit,
Cincinnati and Toronto Symphony
Orchestras, and the National Arts Centre
Orchestra, Ottawa.
Operatic engagements have included Der
fliegende Holländer at La Scala, Ariadne on
Naxos and The Flying Dutchman for English
National Opera, Der Freischütz at Teatro
Comunale, Bologna, Prince Igor for Berlin
Staatskapelle, and Fidelio and Der Rosenkavalier
for Scottish Opera. He has also undertaken
concert performances at the Tivoli Festival. In
his opening season with Basel, he conducted a
highly successful production of Die Frau ohne
Schatten. Other operas in concert have
included Fidelio with the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra, Elektra and Der fliegende
Holländer with the Royal Scottish National
Orchestra, and Eugene Onegin in Copenhagen.
Recordings include cycles of the Prokofiev
and Rachmaninov Symphonies, Bartók’s
Concerto for Orchestra, Janáček’s Lachian
Dances, Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1
Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, for Chandos the
Beethoven Symphonies and piano concertos
(with John Lill) and the Mendelssohn
symphonies, and for Chandos/Peter Moores
Foundation a disc of Viennese Operetta with
Bruce Ford.
Javier del Real
Diana Montague as Octavian
in the Teatro Real production
of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
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