Press Update:
GERMAN conductor Henrik Schaefer leads the
Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra on October 9, 2015 at the Cultural Center of
the Philippines’ Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater) at 8:00 pm. The
second concert is part of the PPO’s 2015-2016 concert season.
Program includes the music of Emilie Mayer’s
Ouverture to Faust Op.46, Mozart’s Symphony No.40 and Schumann’s Symphony No.3.
Henrik Schaefer’s conducting career began with
a ballet production of the Rite of Spring with the Leipzig Ballet and the
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Since then, he has become a sought-after Wagner
conductor, and his repertoire includes all the great Mozart operas as well as
the romantic Italian and French operas. He has appeared as guest conductor at
the operas in Leipzig, Rouen, Chemnitz, Seoul, the Opera Hedeland, the
Norrlands Opera, the Hongkong Opera and the Opera of Gothenburg.
Henrik Schaefer’s opera repertoire includes
The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, Eugen Onegin, Faust, La
Traviata, La Boheme, Falstaff, Les dialogues des Carmelites, Hänsel and Gretel,
The Flying Dutchman, Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Tristan,
and Parsifal.
As a concert conductor he is a worldwide
acclaimed guest with the Tokyo Symphony, Gävle Symphony, Osaka Philharmonic,
Helsingborg Symphony, Holland Symfonia, Norrköping Symphonie Orchester, Sapporo
Symphony, Brabants Orkest, Sendai Philharmonic, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Tokyo
Metropolitan, the Swedish and Dutch Radio Orchestras, New Japan Philharmonic,
Nederlands Philharmonic, Japan Century Symphony, Hongkong Philharmonic and the
orchestras in Nürnberg, Aalborg, Antwerpen, Enschede, Aarhus, Tromsö and
Madrid.
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the CCP Marketing Department (832-1125 loc. 1806), the CCP Box Office
(832-3704) or Ticketworld (891-9999).
