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RICHARD LÖWENHERZ 
Telemann’s version of Handel’s Riccardo Primo. Performances with Opera Fuoco Young Artists and instrumentalists, singers from the Magdeburg Theater troupe, and Magdeburg Theater orchestra. 

March 10, 11, 16, 17

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OPERA FUOCO/ APARTÉ 
CD RELEASE 

Berenice, che fai ?
Lea Desandre, mezzo-soprano
Adèle Charvet, mezzo- soprano
Natalie Perez, soprano 
Chantal Santon, soprano

November 12, 2017 Salle Ravel Levallois
 
This concert celebrates Opera Fuoco's latest recording, featuring four members (former and current) of the Opera Fuoco studio, Lea Desandré, Natalie Perez, Chantal Santon and Adčle Charvet and the Opera Fuoco orchestra conducted by David Stern. Berenice is a compilation of late Baroque and early Classical works based principally on Metastasio’s famous 18th-century opera scene « Ah Berenice » from his opera Antigono. Not only was the scene set to music by such composers as Haydn and Hasse, but also by Antonio Maria Mazzoni and Marianna Martinez, a composer of Spanish descent who was widely connected to the Viennese music scene and, for a time, lived in the same noble house as Metastasio and Haydn at Grosse Michelstrasse. The young Mozart’s concert aria « Berenice » and Johann Christian Bach’s aria « Confusa, smarrita» from the composer’s  lost pasticcio opera, Berenice, as well as Hasse’s Antigono overture complement the program.

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TOSCA at BOSTON LYRIC 
Emerson Majestic Theater, Boston

September 13, 15, 18, 20, 22, 2017

David Stern continues his run of Puccini operas with Tosca at Boston's Lyric Opera.

TOSCA at PALM BEACH OPERA
Kravis Center, West Palm Beach

January 26, 27, 28, 2018

David Stern renews his post as chief conductor this season with Puccini's Tosca followed by Candide in honor of the Bernstein centennial. 

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LEVALLOIS & 
BEETHOVENFEST
Opera Fuoco & Karine Deshayes
« Distant Beloved »
September 13, 2017 open dress reheasal, Salle Ravel Levallois
September 15, 2017 concert performance in the World Comference Center, Bonn
 
Marking the beginning of a residence in Levallois’ Salle Ravel, and at the invitation of the Beethovenfest in Bonn, Opera Fuoco and David Stern will be performing a program based on this year’s festival theme « Distant Beloved » including Ferdinando Paer’s Leonore Overture, Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 8 and three vocal pieces with the mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes: Boisselot’s Velleda Cantata, Marguerite’s aria from Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust and Neris’ aria from Cherubini’s opera, Medea. Velleda and the Neris aria are featured in Opera Fuoco's 2013 recording of The Romantic Cantatas with Karine Deshayes.

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PUCCINI TRILOGY

David Stern is pleased to announce his upcoming Puccini trilogy, including La Bohème at the Crested Butte Festival in July,  Turandot at the Edmonton Opera in October and Madama Butterfly at the Palm Beach Opera in January 2017.

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WORLD PREMIERE - THE ROCOCO MACHINE

David Stern is re-invited to Drottningholm to conduct The Rococo Machine, a new opera celebrating Drottningholm's 250 years 
June 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 19, 2016

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NEW YORK OPERA DEBUT - DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE

David Stern’s New York opera debut with Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, a Juilliard Opera Production 
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York 
April 19, 21 and 23, 2016

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DAMON - TEELEMANN FESTTAGE

Staged production of Georg Philipp Telemann's opera Damon at the Magdeburg Theater, a coproduction with Opera Fuoco and the Telemann-Zentrum 
March 12, 13, 18 and 19, 2016

Go to : operafuoco.fr - Damon

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PALM BEACH OPERA - CHEF CONDUCTOR

David Stern was named chief conductor of the Palm Beach Opera in 2015

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WORLD PREMIERE 

Enemies, A Love Story 

On February 20, 21, and 22, 2015 David Sten conducted the world premiere of Ben Moore's new opera Enemies, a Love Story, based on Isaac Baschevis Singer's novel at the Palm Beach Opera. The production was staged by Sam Helfrich.

Go to : Palm Beach Opera - Enemies, A Love Story

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NEWS - SHANGHAI BAROQUE FESTIVAL

David Stern is director of the new Shanghai Baroque Festival, which had its first edition in December 2014 in the new Shanghai Symphony Halls. It is an annual international festival, involving prominent artists and ensembles perfuming on period and modern instruments.

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NEWS - CRESTED BUTTE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Opera Music Director

David Stern has been named opera music director of the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado, USA. The 2015 summer season will feature Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

www.crestedbuttemusicfestival.com

NEWS - DROTTNINGHOLM

Artist in Residence
July August 2014

Mozart - Mitridate, re di Ponto

Francisco Negrin, stage director
Louis Desirée, costumes
Peter Lodahl, Mitridate 
Miah Persson, Aspasia
Christophe Dumaux, Farnace
Raffaella Milanese, Sifare
Sarah Heshkowitz, Ismene

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COSI FANCIULLI is a one-hour opera commissioned by Opera Fuoco, featuring a musical score by Nicolas Bacri and a libretto by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. The production was staged by Jean-Yves Ruf and had its world premiere at the Theatre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in May 2014 and twelve performances at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées in June 2014.

« A contemporary reverie »
- Jean-Yves Ruf
« A romanesque prelude to Cosi Fan Tutte »
- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

"Nicolas Bacri's music is charming, at first neoclassical à la Stravinsky, then evolving more toward Ravel and Poulenc or... Bacri. Engaging musical direction by David Stern and very good young singers...  Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt weaves a wise and very subtle libretto which completely reverses that of Mozart's and DaPonte's: here the victims are Alfonso and Despina, in love with each other... A modest and inspired staging by Jean-Yves Ruf... an attractive tapestry of love's ravages and false sentiments."

Bertrand Renard, Culture Box/France TV

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Tempêtes et Tremblements 
à la Cité de la Musique 

concert/video creation on April 1, 2014

Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata BWV 46
Georg Philipp Telemann - Die Donnerode

Karine Deshayes joins an impressive list of vocal artists with whom David Stern and Opera Fuoco have performed and recorded. The French Romantic Cantatas represents a sampling of Cherubini and his contemporaries with excerpts form Cherubini's Medée and Circé and cantatas by Hérold, Catel and Boisselot. These cantatas are highly dramatic works in the styles of bel canto and magnificently orchestrated precursors to the lyric works of Berlioz. The romantic, mythological theme of the femme abandonnée unites all five works on this new disc. The French Romantic Cantatas is Opera Fuoco's fourth disc, following Johann Christian Bach's opera, Zanaida, released in 2012.

French Romantic Cantatas Original video

Recording produced by the Palazzetto Bru Zane,
Centre de Musique Romantique Française,
and released by Zig-Zag Territoires / Outhere
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