Mark Wigglesworth and the Bayerische Staatsoper
Mark Wigglesworth travels to Hong Kong with the Bavarian State Opera. Together they give four performances of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte as part of the 2012 Hong Kong Arts Festival.
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16th February 2012
Mark Wigglesworth and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
This week Mark Wigglesworth conducts the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in the Vredenburg, Utrecht and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. A programme of music from the 1920s brings together Jean Sibelius' Symphony No 7, orchestral excerpts from Alban Berg's Wozzeck (with soprano Susan Gritton) and Maurice Ravel's La Valse and Bolero.
5th February 2012
Mark Wigglesworth on Dutch Television
Films of Mark Wigglesworth conducting Boulez and Ravel are currently available online. To watch performances of Rituel and Daphnis et Chloé with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw as well as documentaries about both pieces that Mark made for Dutch Television click here.
12th December 2011
Mark Wigglesworth in Monte-Carlo
On December 4th, Mark Wigglesworth conducts a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in Monte-Carlo's Grimaldi Forum. He is joined by the soprano Malin Hartelius, the contralto Nathalie Stutzmann, the Rundfunkchor Berlin, and the Orchestre Philharmonique Monte-Carlo.
28th November 2011
Mark Wigglesworth in Stockholm
Mark Wigglesworth is in Sweden for concerts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. They play Schubert's Symphony No 9 'The Great' and are joined by contralto Anna Larsson for a performance of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder.
21st November 2011
Mark Wigglesworth in Munich
Mark Wigglesworth is in Munich where he will make his debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper. He conducts Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte in a production by Dieter Dorn with a cast led by Miah Persson and Sir Thomas Allen.
8th November 2011
Mark Wigglesworth in Hong Kong
Mark Wigglesworth makes his debut in Hong Kong this week conducting the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. The programme begins with Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and ends with the Overture to Wagner's Tannhäuser. In between the two, Mark is joined by the cellist Paul Watkins for a performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto.
21st October 2011
Mark Wigglesworth in Australia
Mark Wigglesworth is currently in Australia for performances at the Sydney Opera House. For Opera Australia he conducts Mozart's Don Giovanni and with the Sydney Symphony performs a programme including the final symphonies of Lutoslawski and Dvorak.
31st August 2011
Mark Wigglesworth at the BBC Proms
Mark Wigglesworth returns to the BBC Henry Wood Proms. Replacing an indisposed Jiří Bělohlávek, he joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus, the BBC Singers, and Trinity Boys Choir for a performance of Benjamin Britten's Cantata Misericordium, Sinfonia da Requiem, and Spring Symphony. The concert opens with the world premiere of Joby Talbot's orchestration of Purcell's Chaconny in G Minor.
6th August 2011
Mark Wigglesworth's Shaping the Invisible
Read Mark Wigglesworth's regular column on The Gramophone Magazine website. In 'Shaping the Invisible', Mark writes about conducting and his fascination with the philosophies and psychologies that lie behind it.
Shaping the Invisible
16th June 2011
Mark Wigglesworth conducts the Camerata Salzburg in San Sebastian
Mark Wigglesworth will return to the Camerata Salzburg for a concert on 1st June at the Kursaal in San Sebastian. The programme opens with Debussy’s Prélude a l'après midi d'un faune, arranged by Schoenberg, followed by Webern’s Six Pieces, Op.10. The second half of the concert will feature Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with soloists Petra Lang and Christian Elsner.
26th May 2011
Wigglesworth returns to the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra
On 19, 20 and 21 May, Wigglesworth will return to the Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis for three concerts with the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra. The concerts will begin with Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.3, and the second half will include Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird.
4th May 2011
Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s production of Parsifal at English National Opera – with Mark Wigglesworth conducting, Iain Paterson singing Amfortas and Jane Dutton as Kundry – has received international critical acclaim.
“I find it almost impossible to believe that Mark Wigglesworth has never conducted Parsifal before… it sounded as though he’d been soaked in the score all his life and thought of nothing else,” commented Rupert Christiansen in the Daily Telegraph. “The orchestra was inspired to playing of a smoothness and security which would not have disgraced the Berlin Phil. To ENO’s Wagnerian pantheon… the name of Mark Wigglesworth must now be added.”
In The Times, Richard Morrison wrote: “Mark Wigglesworth’s lovingly-crafted Wagner conducting is one of the revelations of recent years, and the ENO orchestra and thrillingly augmented chorus perform brilliantly.”
Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times said: “The accomplished British conductor Mark Wigglesworth… drew warm, plush and sensitive playing from the orchestra.”
4th March 2011
English National Opera
Mark Wigglesworth makes a keenly-anticipated return to English National Opera to conduct Wagner’s Parsifal in a revival of Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s acclaimed production.
24th February 2011
Mark Wigglesworth makes a keenly-anticipated return to English National Opera to conduct Wagner’s Parsifal in a revival of Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s acclaimed production.
Wigglesworth leads an impressive cast. Bass-baritone Iain Paterson stars as the fallen priest-king Amfortas and soprano Jane Dutton sings the role of Kundry. The production also features John Tomlinson (Gurnemanz) and Stuart Skelton (Parsifal).
The production opens on February 16 with eight performances running until March 12.
8th February 2011
Mark Wigglesworth performs Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Mozarteum Orchestra at the Salzburg Großes Festspielhaus.
On 16 January, Mark Wigglesworth conducts the Mozarteum Orchestra at the Salzburg Großes Festspielhaus in a programme of Beethoven Pastoral Symphony and Mahler Das Lied von der Erde with mezzo soprano Petra Lang and tenor Stuart Skelton.
Throughout January and early February, Wigglesworth is otherwise busy in London in rehearsal for English National Opera’s production of Parsifal which opens on 16 February.
4th January 2011
Mark Wigglesworth returns to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Mark Wigglesworth returned to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic on 3 and 4 November to conduct a programme of Wagner Prelude from Parsifal, Bartók Piano Concerto No.3 (with soloist Kirill Gerstein) and Mozart Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’.
4th November 2010
Mark Wigglesworth concludes his Shostakovich cycle on the BIS label.
In October 2010, Mark Wigglesworth will record the final disc of his 12 year project to record all of the Shostakovich Symphonies for BIS. The majority of the recordings have been made with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, and the cycle has been consistently praised as one of the most important Shostakovich cycles to be recorded in recent times.
“Wigglesworth’s long view of where the symphony is heading is a crucial component of this interpretation, but it also embraces a kaleidoscopic variety of character, be it the icy funeral march at the start of the finale, the passages of stirring brilliance in Shostakovich’s orchestral writing, or those moments where the composer seems to be retreating into his own contemplative thoughts. The emotional force is intense.”
Symphony No.4, The Telegraph, five stars
12th October 2010
Mark Wigglesworth returns to Australia for concerts with both the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras
With the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra he conducts two programmes celebrating music written in 1910: the first of Sibelius Symphony No.4, Ravel Mother Goose Suite and Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite and the second of Bartok Two Portraits for Orchestra, Stravinsky Firebird Suite and Elgar Violin Concerto with James Ehnes.
Wigglesworth returns to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 and Shostakovich Symphony No.15.
3rd September 2010
At Aspen & Grand Teton Music Festival
Mark Wigglesworth appeared at the Aspen Festival in August, conducting a programme of Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 with soloist Stephen Hough, and Sibelius Symphony No.2. The performance was preceeded by two concerts at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole.
12th August 2010
Japan debut
Mark Wigglesworth made his Japanese debut in June, conducting the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Wagner, Prokofiev and Brahms. He appeared at Suntory Hall on 18 June and at the Muza Kawasaki Hall on 20 June.
5th July 2010
