Leopold Hager Interprets Wagner & Bruckner
Hungarian mezzo-soprano Dorottya Láng debuts in Berwaldhallen with Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder: musical settings of five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, with whom Wagner was in love. Esteemed conductor Leopold Hager also leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the overture to Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Anton Bruckner’s third symphony.
The concert will be broadcasted in the Swedish Radio P2 Friday, April 5 at 7:03 pm.
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The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is a multiple-award-winning ensemble renowned for its high artistic standard and stylistic breadth, as well as collaborations with the world’s finest composers, conductors, and soloists. It regularly tours all over Europe and the world and has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue.
Daniel Harding has been Music Director of the SRSO since 2007, and since 2019 also its Artistic Director. His tenure will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. Two of the orchestra’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to perform regularly with the orchestra.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, and is a cornerstone of Swedish public service broadcasting. Its concerts are heard weekly on the Swedish classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT. Several concerts are also streamed on-demand on Berwaldhallen Play and broadcast globally through the EBU.
Den österrikiske dirigenten Leopold Hager har haft en lång och framgångsrik karriär som dirigent, en yrkesbana som tog sin början i hemstaden Salzburg där han studerade vid Mozarteum. Hans första dirigentuppdrag var i Mainz och sedan följde poster vid bland annat Linz Landestheater, i Freiburg och med Mozarteumorkestern i Salzburg och vid Landestheater i samma stad. 1981 utsågs Hager till chefdirigent för dåvarande Radioorkestern i Luxemburg (idag: Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg) och han är sedan 2021 orkesterns hedersdirigent. Hager har gästdirigerat flitigt vid de ledande operahusen i Europa och USA och uppmärksammats särskilt för sina tolkningar av Mozarts musik. Hans inspelningar av tonsättarens tidiga operor på Philips ingick i skivbolagets ”Complete Mozart Edition”, som gavs ut till 200-årsminnet av Mozarts bortgång 1991. Hager har också bland annat spelat in Mozarts samtliga pianokonserter med pianisten Karl Engel och tonsättarens violinkonserter med Jean-Jacques Kantorow. Dessutom har Hager arbetat med undervisning och från 1992 till 2004 var han professor i dirigering vid dåvarande musikhögskolan i Wien.
Dorottya Láng was born in Budapest and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. From 2012 to 2014 the mezzo-soprano was an ensemble member of the Vienna Volksoper, in 2014 she moved to the Nationaltheater Mannheim, and from 2015 to 2018 the Hamburg State Opera was her artistic home.
Dorottya Láng has made guest appearances at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Latvian National Opera, Malmö Opera, Oslo Opera House and the RuhrTriennale, among others. Concerts have taken her, for example, to the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Berlin, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
Dorottya Láng performed as Adriano (Wagner, ”Rienzi) in 2022 as part of Budapest Wagner Days, where she is returning as Waltraute (”Götterdämmerung”) this year. Upcoming highlights include Mahler’s ”Das Lied von der Erde” in Tokyo with Jonathan Not conducting, singing the ”Wesendonck Songs” with Adam Fischer in June in Vienna and going on a European tour with the Hungarian National Philharmonics singing the mezzo part in Liszt’s ”The Legend of St. Elisabeth”.
Approximate duration: 2 hrs 5 mins with interval
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