Vasily Petrenko makes his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades
On 29 November, Vasily Petrenko is set to mark his New York debut conducting Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at The Metropolitan Opera.
29 Oct 2019
Vasily Petrenko, Artist of the Year at the 2017 Gramophone Awards, frequently works with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Czech Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, NHK Symphony Tokyo and Sydney Symphony.
Petrenko is the Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and European Union Youth Orchestra. He is also Music Director designate of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia.
Petrenko’s 2019/20 season includes a European tour with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in October 2019 celebrating their 100th anniversary and his debut at the Metropolitan Opera conducting The Queen of Spades in November 2019. Other highlights include concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
}The Times, March 2019"Petrenko's Sibelius was a paean to the natural world. Brilliantly detailed yet carefully paced, this reading was as serene and majestic as the flying swans that inspired the composer."
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Watch the Oslo Philharmonic perform the first movement from Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 with chief conductor Vasily Petrenko in National Concert Hall, Taipei on 18th March 2017.
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