Symphony Concert N° 4

Daniele Gatti Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven

  • Ballet overture »Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus« op. 43

Igor Strawinsky

  • »Apollon musagète«

Robert Schumann

  • Symphony No. 1 B flat major op. 38 »Frühlings-Symphonie«

From Prometheus to Apollo

Schumann and Dresden – not, unfortunately, a tale of love. While it is true that around a third of Robert Schumann’s entire oeuvre was written between 1844 and 1850 when the couple lived in Dresden, it was not until 1858 that the Royal Kapelle posthumously included for the first time one of his symphonies in its programme: Carl Gottlieb Reißiger combined the passionate First, inspired by Schubert’s Great and which Schumann wrote in only four days in 1841, with Beethoven’s »The Creatures of Prometheus«. After emigrating from his Russian homeland, Igor Stravinsky led a busy life as an itinerant conductor. In 1929 his international travels took him to Dresden, where he conducted the Staatskapelle.

A concert introduction will be offered 45 minutes before the beginning of each performance in the opera cellar of the Semperoper.

  • Sunday
    17.12.2023
    11:00 Uhr
    Semperoper
    Tickets
    Ticket price:
    13 – 82 €
  • Monday
    18.12.2023
    19:00 Uhr
    Semperoper
    Tickets
    Ticket price:
    13 – 82 €
  • Tuesday
    19.12.2023
    19:00 Uhr
    Semperoper
    Tickets
    Ticket price:
    13 – 82 €

Daniele Gatti

Conductor

Daniele Gatti graduated as a composer and orchestra conductor at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. He is Music Director of the Orchestra Mozart and Artistic Advisor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO).

He was Music Director of the Teatro dell̛Opera di Roma and Chief Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO) in Amsterdam and he previously held prestigious roles at important musical institutions like the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Royal Opera House of London, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and Zurich’s Opernhaus.

The Berliner Philharmoniker, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala are just a few of the renowned symphonic institutions he works with.

Some of the numerous and important new productions he has conducted include the »Falstaff« staged by Robert Carsen (in London, Milan, and Amsterdam); the »Parsifal« staged by Stefan Herheim opening the 2008 Bayreuther Festspiele; the »Parsifal« staged by François Girard at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; four operas at the Salzburger Festspiele

(»Elektra«, »La Bohème«, »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«, »Il Trovatore«).

Daniele Gatti was awarded the Premio »Franco Abbiati« from Italian music critics as best conductor in 2015, and in 2016 he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur from the French Republic for his work as Musical Director of the Orchestre National de France.

Under Sony Classical he has recorded works by Debussy and Stravinsky with the Orchestre National de France, and a DVD of Wagner's »Parsifal« staged at the Metropolitan Opera. Under the label RCO Live he has recorded Berlioz’s »Symphonie Fantastique«, Mahler’s First, Second and Fourth Symphonies, a DVD of Stravinsky's »Le Sacre du Printemps« together with Debussy's »Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune« and »La Mer«, a DVD of Strauss's »Salome« performed at the Dutch National Opera, a CD of Bruckner's Symphony n. 9 together with the »Prelude« and the »Karfreitagszauber« (Good Friday Music) from Wagner's »Parsifal«. In November 2019 a DVD of Wagner's »Tristan und Isolde«, staged at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, was released by C Major.