Lawrence Renes News
Dutch conductor
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
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2021-03-14 09:30:12
When an orchestra player tests positive on the eve of an opera
The conductor Lawrence Renes has an inspiring account of the limitless flexibility of good musicians: A very special time has come to an end. Two intense weeks of navigating highs, and lows. Miraculously we managed to get a group of dear friends together in Malta to perform George Benjamin’s Written On Skin. After a few […]
2019-01-23 06:48:00
Analyzing the SFO Season
[…] was basically hired on the strength of La forza del destino, and, well, everybody had high hopes, but I certainly found him a disappointment over the long haul. Given the conductors who are returning next season whom I'd consider to be in the running, it might be that SFO 1) wants to see them more than once 2) want to see them in more than one operatic repertory. So we have Gaffigan (Carmen, Ernani), Renes (Nixon, Billy Budd), Franklin (Turandot, Hansel, Adler program), and Nanasi (Elektra, Nozze). Moulds, conducting two Handel operas, is a specialist. I'm not sure whether Christie is in the running, although maybe everyone is. Also, regarding my interview, let me make explicit what is stated less than baldly in the interview: There isn't enough money for a longer season at current quality levels. There isn't enough money to have Opera Lab programming […]
2019-01-22 21:01:00
San Francisco Opera 97th Season, 2019-20
Edward Parks as Steve Jobs Photo: Ken Howard / Santa Fe Opera San Francisco Opera today announced its 97th season, which opens on September 6, 2019. Like 2018-19, next season will have eight operas, still down from the 9 or 10 that the company has performed recently, and far down from the 11 to 13 staged at the turn of the 21st century.The company remains without a music director heading into 2019-20, and in an interview, General Director Matthew Shilvock noted that they're "still in a very exciting period of discovery and exploration. We're still getting to know new conductors, with three new ones this season and reacquainting ourselves with Lawrence Renes, who conducted 2012's Nixon in China. I believe that a [potential] music director has to go through the full rehearsal and production cycle, as well the audience engagement process. The music director does a lot to set the […]
2017-11-12 08:00:49
Symphony Hall, Birmingham; Barbican; Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe remarkable young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason enjoyed an ideal rapport with the CBSO and its irresistible music director. Plus, Bernstein and BrucknerLast week Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Tomorrow, Carnegie Hall, New York. In a year of firsts for the 18-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, winner of BBC Young Musician 2016, these latest debuts are hard to beat. On Wednesday, to an excited capacity crowd, he played Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major, Op 107 (1959) with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by that other irresistible new star, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. Sheku and Mirga: an astounding double act whose youth, verve and diversity challenge classical stereotypes in one joyful swoop. Time will come when events of Kanneh-Mason’s remarkable life so far will not need rehearsing at each mention of his name. For now, let’s celebrate. He’s already played
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