Richard Farnes

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Richard Farnes (* 1964 ) is a British conductor .

Life

education

Farnes was a chorister at King's College in Cambridge , before becoming a student of the 1977 Musicology at the Eton College went. In 1983 he returned to Kings College on an organ scholarship and then studied at the Royal Academy of Music , the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio in London .

Career

During his professional career, Farnes has conducted operas at the Royal Opera House and the English National Opera in London, the Scottish Opera in Glasgow , the English Touring Opera , the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Glyndebourne on Tour , among others . He has also directed the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh and has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra , BBC Philharmonic , BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra , Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra , Russian National Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia . Farnes made his Royal Opera House debut in 2002 with Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi .

In 2004, he replaced Steven Sloane as music director of Opera North in Leeds . For this opera house he had previously performed the operas Il matrimonio segreto by Domenico Cimarosa , Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Giovanna d'Arco and La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Gloriana by Benjamin Britten and Tosca von Giacomo Puccini and the world premiere of The Nightingale's to Blame by Simon Holt .

The operas he has directed since his appointment as music director include Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, La rondine , La bohème and La fanciulla del West by Giacomo Puccini, Salome by Richard Strauss , Falstaff , Giovanna d '' Arco , La traviata, Don Carlos , Otello and Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi, Katja Kabanowa and From a House of the Dead by Leoš Janáček , The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner , Eugen Onegin and Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Manon and Werther by Jules Massenet , The Nightingale's to Blame by Simon Holt, Il matrimonio segreto by Domenico Cimarosa, the world premiere of David Sawer's opera Skin Deep and Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw , Albert Herring , Death in Venice and the award-winning Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten . The staging of the complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner also received a lot of attention . The Ring Cycle was performed in Leeds, Salford , Nottingham , Gateshead and London in 2016 and won the Royal Philharmonic Society's Conductor of the Year Award in 2017 .

After the 2015/2016 season, Farnes ceded his position as music director at Opera North to Aleksandar Markovic . The 2016/2017 opera season brought him back to the Royal Opera House as a conductor with Il trovatore and to the Glyndebourne Festival Opera with La traviata .

Awards

  • 2014: Winner of the UK Theater Awards "Achievement in Opera"
  • 2017: Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor of the Year Award

Recordings (selection)

  • Bluebeard's Castle (Chandos), with John Tomlinson , Sally Burgess and the Opera North Orchestra
  • Benjamin Britten, The Turn of the Screw (LSO), with Andrew Kennedy, Sally Matthews, Catherine Wyn-Rogers and the London Symphony Orchestra

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Richard Farnes Conductor. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Richard Farnes Biography. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Richard Farnes Conductor. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ Richard Farnes: Marking his final week as Music Director. July 4, 2016, accessed February 19, 2018 .
  5. ^ Opera North's new Music Director: Aleksandar Marković. February 25, 2016, accessed February 19, 1018 .
  6. ^ Richard Farnes at Operabase (engagements and dates).
  7. ↑ Richard Farnes at Discogs (English)
  8. ↑ Richard Farnes at Allmusic (English)
personal data
SURNAME Farnes, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1964