program notes {
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Helsinki
Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse
Romande, Moscow State Symphony
Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Seoul
Philharmonic, Sao Paolo Symphony
Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra at the 2014 BBC Proms. He
will continue a regular relationship with
the Hallé.
His extensive discography, which was
recently enlarged by the addition of the
Dutch première of K. A. Hartmann’s Simplicius Simplicissimus (Challenge Classics),
includes many award-winning productions.
Markus Stenz made his debut with
the BSO in October, 2012, conducting
a program of Rebel, Schumann
and Beethoven.
Heidi Melton
The young dramatic soprano Heidi
Melton has been
called “the Wagnerian voice we have been waiting for since
Flagstad and Nilsseon,” a voice that is
“big, gleaming and tonally resplendent”
(San Francisco Chronicle).
In the 2014–2015 season, Heidi Melton
will debut at Oper Frankfurt in two
new productions: first as Gertrude in
Hänsel und Gretel, then as Eglantine in
Weber’s Euryanthe. She also debuts at the
Canadian Opera Company as Sieglinde in
Die Walküre under Johannes Debus, with
the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in Die
Walküre under Kent Nagano, and with
Real Filharmonía de Galicia in Wagner’s
Wesendonck-Lieder under Paul Daniel. She
will return to the Deutsche Op \