Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop returns to Ravinia this summer to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in three weeks of performances as the festival’s chief conductor. On July 12, Alsop and the CSO open their summer residency with an all-American program featuring works by Copland, Johnson, Barber, and Gershwin. Additional festival highlights include performances of Beethoven’s Fifth (July…
Alsop reunited with Yunchan Lim and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra this month for performances of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, on a program that also included Ives’s Symphony No. 2 and Carlos Simon’s AMEN! In 2022, Alsop conducted then 18-year-old Lim when he became the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition,…
Marin Alsop’s April 23 debut at The Metropolitan Opera, conducting the company premiere of John Adams’s El Niño, is a critically acclaimed triumph. The New York Times raves: “Alsop’s musical interpretation beautifully suits the production concept….[she] kept the rhythm insistent but chose a slightly slow tempo, loosening the tight weave of the instrumental parts and…
On April 23, Alsop makes her highly anticipated Met Opera debut conducting the company premiere of John Adams’s El Niño (April 23–May 17). The cast of director Lileana Blain-Cruz’s production includes soprano Julia Bullock, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, and J’Nai Bridges and Daniela Mack alternating the mezzo-soprano role. During this time, Alsop also heads to Baltimore…
Marin Alsop’s discography already comprises more than 200 titles, and on April 5 she expands this catalog with the physical and digital release of her newest addition to Naxos’s “American Classics” series. This is Alsop’s third Naxos title devoted to the music of John Adams, following recordings of Shaker Loops, The Wound-Dresser, and Short Ride…
On April 23, Marin Alsop makes her Metropolitan Opera debut conducting the company premiere of John Adams’s El Niño. Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, this fully staged new production of the composer’s Christmas oratorio stars Grammy Award–winning soprano Julia Bullock and baritone Davóne Tines, both also making company debuts, and mezzo-sopranos J’Nai Bridges and Daniela Mack,…
This month, Marin Alsop wrapped up a successful run of Bernstein’s Candide at MusikTheater an der Wien. The production was hailed as “a triumph” by Kurier, with BR Klassik writing: “Conductor Marin Alsop and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra show the enormous multifaceted nature of Bernstein’s funny, parodic and also voluptuous music.” Opera Now Newsletter…
Alsop visited the Peabody Institute this month to lead her regular class with the Conductors’ Orchestra. She also welcomed students to rehearsals with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where they prepared for upcoming performances of Kevin Puts’s Contact.
On August 5, Marin Alsop takes the stage with Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the USA (NYO-USA). The orchestra performs Barber’s Symphony No. 1; Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist; and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Following the New York concert, Alsop and Thibaudet embark with NYO-USA on a South American tour. The…
Marin joins Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin in their 2024–25 season. She begins her role as official Principal Guest Conductor in September and will lead two programs beginning with the New Year’s Eve performance on December 31. She returns March 13–15 for a program featuring Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Haydn, the Mendelssohn Violin…
