Cancelled due to covid19 crisis Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, the first world-class violin competition in Shanghai, was launched in 2015 and thereafter, a grand success for two consecutive editions in 2016 and 2018. Taking its name from the distinguished violinist Isaac Stern, the Competition aims to continue the […]
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Tanglewood Music Festival – July 26th 2020 at 2:30 PM Cancelled due to covid19 – crisis. In order to celebrate Isaac Stern’s centenary, his sons David and Michael will be conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a special gala concert at the Tanglewood Festival
Marseille Opera – June 21st 2020, 4 PM Cancelled due to covid19 crisis David Stern offers a program to Marseille’s audience that promises to be brilliant! From Dutilleux to Brahms, two essential symphonies, extraordinary and exciting, that explore different shades of the symphonic language.
May 13th 2020 – Salle Ravel , Levallois Cancelled due to covid19 crisis The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais was transformed by Mozart and his Italian librettist Da Ponte. Nevertheless, the original political intentions of the work were undermined by the imperial censure of Mozart’s Vienna. In Eric Emmanuel Schmitt’s […]
NEW RECORDING: Discover Florian Leopold Gassmann’s beautiful opera arias with Ania Vegry. David Stern conducts the NDR Radiophilharmonie for this CD full of surprising world premieres. More info : https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/florian-leopold-gassmann-opernarien/hnum/6096005?lang=en
CANCELLED due to Covid19 April 1st & 2nd 2019 David Stern will make his debut in Australia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In a festive program with Händel’s Water and Royal Fireworks music and Telemann rarely performed Wassermusik. The concert will sparkle in Sydney’s City Recital Hall
CANCELLED due to Covid19 May 1st 2020 – Großer Sendesaal des NDR Hannover David Stern will conduct this concert version of Händel’s Giulio Cesare. Alongside a lavish cast of talented young singers from Opera Fuoco’s former and present generations, Maestro Stern will give a fresh new vision of this baroque […]
Cancelled due to Covid19 crisis March 28th 2020 – Guangzhou Symphony Hall For this new collaboration, David Stern will conduct a program with an original dialogue between Brahms 4th symphony and compositions of the Chinese composer Zhou-Tian.
December 12th 2019 – Shanghai Symphony Hall – Recital Hall David Stern will collaborate with China’s first baroque ensemble, the Shanghai Camerata, founded by Menglin Gao, and a trio of excellent chinese singers, Lei Xu, Yajie Zhang and Meili Li. The program will consist of two of the main composers […]
Cancelled due to Covid19 crisis March 21st 2020 – Shanghai Symphony Hall David Stern will conduct the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra with the fabulous Webern’s Im Sommerwind and the very rarely performed Tragédie de Salomé of the french composer Florent Schmitt. Alongside these post-romantic masterpieces, he will conduct the Zhou-Tian violon […]
February 28th – March 1st 2020 – Palm Beach Opera David Stern and stage director Josh Major will join forces to create a hilarious and spirited evening of operatic comedy. the humor will be as sharp as the Barber’s scissors.
December 6th, 7th & 8th 2019 – Palm Beach Opera Ending 2019, David Stern will conduct Humperdinck’s masterpiece in the Delray Beach’s Crest Theatre starring Palm Beach Opera’s Benenson Young Artists and Apprentice Artists. This production sung in English will have three performances on December 6, 7 and 8th.
September 27th & 28th 2019 – Drottningholm (Sweden) David Stern will conduct the young soloists of the Nordopera education network in extracts and arias from Händel’s operas. Nordopera aims to create a platform to exchange knwoledge and to integrate young artists from the Nordic region. David Stern will return to […]
Works by Mozart and Hans Rott Gustav Mahler posthumously called Hans Rott the “the founder of the New Symphony”. The E major symphony is a fascinating work that contains ideas that Mahler would later adapt in many of his early works.
Shanghai – December 16/Paris – January 21/Leipzig – June 23 “Bach‘s final large-scale vocal composition presents itself to us as the composer‘s artistic legacy. Like no other of Bach‘s works, the B-minor Mass is a consummation of his writing for the voice……“ Christoph Wolff
In a production inspired by film noir and staged by Kristine McIntyre, Mozart’s opera is a brilliant combination of stark human tragedy and touching human comedy. For Mozart and da Ponte, the seducer is amoral and yet sincere until his doom. Unrepentant, he refuses his last chance to atone in his […]
October 17th 2019 – Beijing Music Festival / Forbidden City Concert hall David Stern returns to the Beijing Music Festival, this time bringing his opera company Opera Fuoco with its outstanding young soloists and period instrument orchestra. Händel is at his comic and melodramatic best in this work with its […]
On December 15 and 16, 2018 David Stern offers Shanghai music lovers the 4th annual baroque festival at the Shanghai Symphony Hall, with a performance of Bach’s B-minor Mass with Opera Fuoco and the Tölzer Knabenchor. The work has not been heard in Shanghai since 1918.
Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus is a comedic series of mischief, intrigue, and revenge set at a lavish Viennese bal. Palm Beach Opera’s Chief Conductor, David Stern, conducts this high-spirited comedy, directed by Artistic Director of Opera at Manhattan School of Music, Dona Vaughn.
This American masterpiece with an iconic musical score by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story is a unique blend of musical theater, opera and dance.
Investigations, conspiracies, seduction and scandals make up the fabric of Die Stumme Serenade (The Silent Serenade). In this miniature masterpiece, composed in 1946, Erich Korngold combines elements of jazz, film music and the Viennese operetta tradition.
David Stern and Opera Fuoco’s young artists travel to Sweden with this quintessential 1923 Yiddish operetta, “Die Goldene Kale,” featuring music by Joseph Rumshinsky, lyrics by Louis Gilrod and a libretto by Frieda Freiman.
Inspired by the Odyssey, the return of Idomeneo, King of Crete, is a work of monumental dramaturgy. With Idomeneo, the young Mozart (only 25 years old at the time) proves his unparalleled musical maturity. His mastery of the opera seria genre, so highly developed in his later masterworks is already clearly evident.
David Stern conducts the Kentucky Opera revival of Ben Moore’s Enemies, A Love Story, originally premiered at the Palm Beach Opera in 2015. Mary Birnbaum stages the opera based on the riveting novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. November 9 & 11, 2018 in the Brown’s Theater Louisville, Kentucky
Berenice, che fai ? Axelle Fanyo, soprano Chantal Santon, soprano Natalie Perez, mezzo-soprano November 24, 2018 Theatre de St Quentin This concert celebrates Opera Fuoco’s latest recoding and featuring three former members of Opera Fuoco’s Young Artists Studio and the Opera Fuoco orchestra conducted by David Stern. Berenice is a […]
TOSCA AT BOSTON LYRICEmerson 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 OPERAKravis Center, West Palm Beach January 26, 27, 28, 2018 David Stern renews his post as chief conductor […]
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