LA Phil Concerts Eotvos

Jan 4, 2013

“… for Pablo music is music, whether old or new, and for me this is an extremely important quality: that someone does not make a difference between music from different eras when approaching each score.”

– Peter Eötvös in The New York Times

Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado kicks off 2013 with a return to the podium of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducting a series of concerts that see the world premiere of premiere of Peter Eötvös’s DoReMi, a Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, with celebrated violinist Midori, as well as the Hungarian composer’s operatic setting of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America.

Leading a luminous cast that includes soprano Measha Brueggergosman, Pablo conducts the LA Phil New Music Group on January 15 in Eötvös’s Angels in America – a performance that marks the opera’s West Coast premiere. Director David Gately’s concert staging brings fresh vitality to Eötvös’s setting of Kushner’s powerful, human depiction of the AIDS epidemic.

On January 18, 19, and 20, Pablo leads the LA Phil in a concerto double bill: the world premiere performances of Eötvös’s DoReMi, a Concerto for Violin and Orchestra with Midori, and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. This all-Hungarian concert program also includes Kodály’s suite from the folk opera Háry János. Learn more here.