The Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s 30th Anniversary celebrations start off on a high note with distinguished maestro Kent Nagano conducting the concert version of Strauss’ one-act opera Elektra at the Esplanade on January 9.
Based upon the celebrated Greek tragedy by Sophocles, the opera tells the tale of Elektra’s quest to avenge the murder of her father Agamemnon by his wife and her lover.
Born in California, Kent Nagano has been Music Director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra since 1978. In September 2006 he succeeded Zubin Mehta as Music Director of the Bayerische Staatsoper and became Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
From 2000 to 2006, he was Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. In 2003 he became the first Music Director of Los Angeles Opera having already held the position of Principal Conductor for two years.
The 57-year-old Japanese-American conductor has worked with the world’s finest orchestras and recorded for Erato, Teldec, Pentatone and Deutsche Grammophon as well as Harmonia Mundi, winning Grammy awards for his recordings of Busoni’s Doktor Faust with Opera National de Lyon, and Peter and the Wolf with the Russian National Orchestra.
He has recorded the original versions of Mahler’s Das Klagende Lied and Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, and introduced the public to rediscover works by Britten including the Double Concerto. -- www.sso.org.sg
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