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
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« The 58-member orchestra sat on a sturdy platform ten feet above the action, behind a scrim, which, in the last act, becomes a vista of St. Peter’s and the Vatican. All one could see, at this level, was the conductor, David Stern, who was seriously splendid. The orchestra sounded […]
« This weekend’s exuberant Palm Beach Opera premiere in Kravis Center uses a version created for the New York Philharmonic in 2004…. It’s a provocative and entertaining experience. David Stern’s buoyant musical direction buttresses … an exhilarating, superbly cast and imaginatively directed spectacle. » Palm Beach Daily News, February 2018
« ….this was a splendid exposition of baroque opera. Praise in the first place for the conductor David Stern at the head of a combination of his own Opera Fuoco and members of the Magdeburg Philharmonic. As well as endowing the performance with an energetic momentum, he brought out all […]
« Happily the Magdeburg Theater’s in-house orchestra, to which were added several members of the French ensemble Opera Fuoco (from which a good part of the singer soloists also came) delivered its goods. David Stern, director of the ensemble, who has been frequent guest with his musicians at the Elbe, […]
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