HarrisonParrott artists join forces for Verdi in Groningen
16/2/2018
Catherine Naglestad and Oleg Tsibulko sing Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Noord Nederlands Orkest under Eivind Gullberg Jensen on 22, 23 and 24 February.
Making his debut with the Noord Nederlands Orkest, Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen has previously conducted orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Oslo and Royal Stockholm philharmonic orchestras, and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. Equally at home on the concert platform as in the opera house, Eivind made his debut at the 2017 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress – with Paul Appleby in the title role – and gave his first performances at Wiener Staatsoper last season with Puccini’s Tosca, followed by La bohème this season and a further return in the future.
The performances mark Catherine’s first in this epic work, further consolidating her ever expanding repertoire. Recent seasons have also featured her first performances of Britten’s War Requiem with Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Tove in Schönberg’s Gurrelieder with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, both under Kent Nagano. Catherine reprises the role of Tove later this season when she returns to Dutch National Opera in Pierre Audi’s acclaimed staging, conducted by Marc Albrecht.
Also singing the Requiem for the first time, Oleg Tsibulko will reprise the work next month at Teatro Massimo di Palermo under the baton of Zubin Mehta. The performances follow an incredibly successful debut for Oleg as General Polkan in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Le coq d’Or at the Concertgebouw with Vasily Petrenko earlier this season. Further ahead Oleg makes his North American debut at Canadian Opera Company in a Stravinsky double-bill of Le Rossignol and Renard under Johannes Debus.