‘Einstein,’ residencies at Cal Performances
Cal Performances will continue its series of orchestral residencies during the 2012-13 season with visits by London’s Philharmonia Orchestra led by Esa-pekka Salonen and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela under conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
The season, announced this week by director Matías Tarnopolsky, also features a revival of the landmark 1976 opera “Einstein on the Beach” — with music by Philip Glass, stage direction and sets by Robert Wilson, and choreography by Lucinda Childs — as well as the Mariinsky Ballet’s production of “Swan Lake,” Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist play “Rhinocéros” presented by Paris’ Théâtre de la Ville and an appearance by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
“This is a season that brings together many different elements and passions of mine, and emphasizes our position in the larger Bay Area and on the campus of one of the world’s great universities,” said Tarnopolsky. “I’m thrilled from top to bottom with it.”
The season, which runs from Sept. 15 to June 13, will also include the world premiere of composer Nolan Gasser and librettist Carey Harrison’s opera “The Secret Garden,” a co-presentation with the San Francisco Opera, and performances by the Joffrey Ballet and Béjart Ballet Lausanne. The Mark Morris Dance Group will reprise its popular holiday offering, “The Hard
Nut,” and Morris will also serve as music director for “Ojai North!,” three programs from the Ojai Music Festival.
Harry Christophers will lead Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society in a performance of Handel’s oratorio “Jephtha,” soprano Susanna Philips will make her first Bay Area appearance, and the Delfeayo Marsalis Octet will perform “Sweet Thunder,” Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s evening-long work inspired by Shakespeare.
Gabriel Kahane
Ray Kurzweil