Constantinos Carydis

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Constantinos Carydis ( Greek Κωνσταντίνος Καρύδης , born January 1, 1974 in Athens ) is a Greek conductor .

life and work

Carydis is the nephew of the conductor Miltiades Caridis (1923–1998). He studied music theory and piano at the National Conservatory of Athens, then conducting at the University of Music and Theater in Munich (with Hermann Michael ). As a pianist he has given concerts with Greek orchestras and has performed at solo recitals and chamber music evenings. He received his first engagements as a conductor at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich, at the Württemberg State Opera in Stuttgart and, from 2006, at the Vienna State Opera . Constantinos Carydis conducts - like many conductors today - without a baton.

concert

Carydis works with the Munich Philharmonic , the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra . He conducted the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , Munich Chamber Orchestra , Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin , Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra , the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , the Bern Symphony Orchestra , Lucerne Symphony Orchestra , Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich , Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel Aviv and Orchester Philharmonique du Luxembourg , where he a. a. performed the ballet music El Sombrero de tres Picos by Manuel de Falla and the symphonic poem Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow . He is also committed to contemporary music , such as in July 2010 when he was at the podium in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden for the world premiere of Nicolas Bacris Quasi una fantasia for three solo violins and orchestra op. 118. The soloists Lisa Batiashvili , Alina Pogostkina , Baiba Skride and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra played.

When Enescu Festival 2015 in Bucharest, he has appeared with the Bavarian State Orchestra and Pierre-Laurent Aimard , the program consisted of the 5th Piano Concerto of Beethoven and the Fifth Symphony of Shostakovich . He was also invited by the Orchester National Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Frankfurter Museumsgesellschaft , the Glyndebourne Festival and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne .

In December 2014 he made his debut with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra , where he conducted the 10th symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich and with whom he performed a Strauss / Beethoven program in December 2015 and a pure Mozart program in August 2016 as part of a Mozart matinee . Karl Harb then wrote in the Salzburger Nachrichten : "Every note becomes a gem."

Opera

His first engagements took him to the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and the Württemberg State Opera in Stuttgart, where he conducted Gluck's Alceste and Lortzings Wildschütz , among others . In 2006 he made a guest appearance at the Vienna State Opera in a series of five Carmen performances, sixteen times as conductor of Bohème between 2007 and 2010 and three times of Don Giovanni in 2009 . He later conducted Don Giovanni in London, Amsterdam and Munich. At the Frankfurt Opera he conducted Handel's Xerxes , Mozart operas such as Die Zauberflöte , Massenet Werther , Bizet's Carmen and Stravinsky's Rake’s Progress .

In 2011 he made his debut as part of a new production of Carmen at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden , which was filmed by Julian Napier , was the first 3D production of an opera worldwide and was also released as Blu-ray in 2D. At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden he conducted Rossini's Il turco in Italia , at the Komische Oper in Berlin Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia , Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss and Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam gave him the musical direction of three Mozart operas: Le nozze di Figaro , Don Giovanni and The Abduction from the Seraglio . The kidnapping , staged by Johan Simons , was also recorded. He finally conducted Britten's Shakespeare setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Opéra de Lyon .

Carydis is a regular guest at the Bayerische Staatsoper , where he directed Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann in 2011 , Mozart's Don Giovanni in 2014/15 and in 2015 - as part of the Munich Opera Festival - a new production of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in the Prinzregententheater .

In 2013, he worked with director Barrie Kosky and the Frankfurt Opera to develop a combination of baroque and modernity for the Edinburgh International Festival , in which Purcell's Dido and Aeneas was coupled with Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle , a production that met with mixed criticism.

In 2018 - after two Mozart matinees in 2016 and 2017 - he performed Mozart's Magic Flute for the first time as an opera conductor at the Salzburg Festival .

Quotes

“For each piece, Carydis finds a suitable, specific sound aura, develops a wealth of colors that can only emerge if you pay attention to even the smallest nuances, ornaments, phrasing details and take them seriously, thus knowing how to listen to the heart of the works. In this sense the conductor is a brother in the spirit of Kirill Petrenko. Clarity and elasticity, energy and transparency, momentum and dramatic impulsiveness, but also the finest weighting of the (middle and secondary) voices, the distribution of the wind colors, the articulation of the strings, the balances depending on the character of the works result in an overall picture before it Effect one perks up amazed and amazed. "

- Karl Harb : Every note becomes a gem, Salzburger Nachrichten , August 8, 2016

“Everything he does turns into musical gold. He is extremely imaginative and astute, meticulous in his preparation, equally versed in operas and symphonic music. "

- Andrew Powell : Carydis Woos Bamberg, Musical America

Opera productions (selection)

Discography (selection)

Carlos Kleiber Prize

On November 4, 2011, the conductor received the Carlos Kleiber Prize of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, which was endowed with 10,000 euros and was first awarded on the occasion of Carlos Kleiber's 80th birthday . The jury consisted of the State Director and General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera, a member of the Bavarian State Orchestra and a representative of the Friends of the Munich National Theater.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festspielhaus Baden-Baden : 1613_geigen_bacri_hd.mp4.flv , From the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden: Nicolas Bacri Quasi una fantasia for three solo violins and orchestra op.118 , accessed on January 7, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Karl Harb: Every note becomes a precious stone, Constantinos Carydis brought the miracle of a Mozart matinee. ( Memento of December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Salzburger Nachrichten , August 8, 2016, accessed on December 18, 2016.
  3. ^ Archives of the Vienna State Opera : search result performances with Constantinos Carydis , accessed on December 18, 2016
  4. ↑ Simon Thompson: Edinburgh Festival (17): Odd Pairing of Purcell and Bartók Operas , Seen and Heard International, August 26, 2013, accessed December 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ Anna Picard: Edinburgh Festival 2013 classical review: Dido and Aeneas / Bluebeard's Castle: Lament for broken-hearted heroines , The Independent (London), August 31, 2013, accessed December 19, 2016.
  6. ↑ Information in the archive of the Salzburg Festival
  7. ^ Andrew Powell: Carydis Woos Bamberg. In: Musical America . January 4, 2015, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  8. ^ Robert Braunmüller: Munich Opera Festival. Claude Debussy's "Pélleas et Mélisande" in the Prinzregententheater - the AZ criticism. In: Münchner Abendzeitung . June 29, 2015, accessed December 18, 2016 .
  9. ↑ IOCO (Kultur im Netz): Frankfurt, Oper Frankfurt, Highlights in September 2016 , accessed on December 18, 2016
  10. ^ Oper Frankfurt : Xerxes program ( memo from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , with cast list, accessed on December 18, 2016
  11. ↑ Gramola : Carmen / Royal Opera House Georges Bizet Carydis / Rice / Hymel / Argiris / Kovalevska , accessed December 18, 2016.
  12. ^ Arthaus Musik: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste ( Memento from June 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on December 18, 2016.
  13. ↑ Opus Arte : Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio , accessed on December 18, 2016.
  14. ^ Carlos Kleiber Prize ( Memento from August 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on January 7, 2020. The prize should be awarded every two years "to young conductors and répétiteurs". However, there has been no further award so far (as of December 2016), which is why Constantinos Carydis is the only winner so far.
personal data
SURNAME Carydis, Constantinos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1st January 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens