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04 Sep 2024

GRAFENEGG: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Pablo Heras-Casado in Austria.

“The Ride of the Valkyries from the third act of Richard Wagner’s opera Die Walküre after the interval, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, virtually electrified the audience. (…) The brass and woodwinds shine in the rhythmically accentuated runs, and the use of the tschinelle is also impressive, soaring upwards from below to great effect. An impression that is naturally denied in a conventional opera performance with instrumental music from the orchestra pit.”

30 Aug 2024

Symphony No.4 in E flat major ‘Romantic’

For their first collaboration on harmonia mundi, Pablo Heras-Casado and Anima Eterna explore the world of Bruckner. The first instalment in this series is his tremendous Symphony no.4. An apotheosis of architectural rigour and poetry, this cathedral in sound, thanks to the unique sonorities of the period instruments played by...

13 Aug 2024

Heras-Casado and the ideal ‘Parsifal’ (Spanish Review)

Scherzo, Justo Romero

Heras-Casado and the ideal Parsifal

Pablo Heras-Casado triumphed once again in Bayreuth, the Wagnerian sanctuary, where he has established himself as one of the most appreciated and blessed figures by the thousands of fervent music lovers who, year after year, make a pilgrimage to this Bavarian town of barely 75,000 inhabitants, where Wagner himself built a theater of unique acoustics and characteristics in 1876. The thunderous ovation heard by the Granada-born conductor when he burst in to salute at the end of the performance was truly exceptional, even in a place as mythomaniacal as Bayreuth.

01 Aug 2024

Pablo Heras-Casado drives the Bayreuth festival orchestra to peak performances

BR Klassik, Tobias Hell

“But the star of the evening is in the pit, where conductor Pablo Heras-Casado drives the festival orchestra to peak performances.“

“It is a captivating piece of conducting that points the way forward while leaving the audience room to find their own answers.“

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan Brachmann

“And the other conductorial stroke of luck on the Green Hill is Pablo Heras-Casado: fluid, yet never rushed tempi in “Parsifal”, an organically flowing orchestral sound; a flexibility of timing oriented towards word meanings and musical climaxes. Wagner works with the musical techniques of trance rituals: the definition of temporal and tonal reference systems, the centers of gravity of which are then gradually shifted: time stretches, fundamental time stretches, fundamental tones shift. Heras-Casado does not demonstrate these techniques, he applies them subtly, with an effect aimed at the subconscious. You immerse yourself in listening and completely forget yourself.”

31 Jul 2024

Bruckner 4: Pablo Heras-Casado and Anima Eterna launch album project and embark on a European tour in the fall

In the 200th anniversary year of Anton Bruckner's birth, the first album by conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and the original sound ensemble Anima Eterna Brugge will be released on the harmonia mundi label on September 13th. It is part of the “New Romanticism” series. Their recording of the Fourth demonstrates their...

24 Jul 2024

Heras-Casado will once again take the podium of the Bayreuther Festspielhaus to conduct the latest Wagnerian drama

The Spanish conductor returns to Bayreuth, where he will conduct six performances of Parsifal between 27 July and 24 August, following the success of his debut last year with this same opera, at the opening of the Wagnerian festival, in the presence of the President of the European Commission, Ursula...

20 Jul 2024

Pablo Heras-Casado will conduct the new production of ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ in Bayreuth in 2028.

In an interview with Der Spiegel, Katharina Wagner, director of the prestigious Bayreuth Festival, announced that Pablo Heras-Casado (Granada, 1977) will conduct the new production of the four operas of The Ring of the Nibelung in 2028. Pablo Heras-Casado's relationship with Richard Wagner began with The Flying Dutchman in 2016 at...

28 Jun 2024

WAGNER: Parsifal (Live, Bayreuther Festspiele 2023)

Acclaimed by the New York Times as “superbly sung, and conducted with muscular solidity", Deutsche Grammophon release the Bayreuth Festival’s 2023 production of Parsifal in both audio and audio-visual formats. The production features the conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and singers Andreas Schager, Elīna Garanča, Georg Zeppenfeld and Derek Welton. Wagner composed...

19 Jun 2024

Pablo Heras-Casado: Celebrated Parsifal on CD, Blu-Ray and online

Deutsche Grammophon release on 28.6.2024, return to Bayreuth in July and August 2024

With his “triumphant debut” (BR-Klassik) in Bayreuth in 2023, Pablo Heras-Casado made big waves that are still seething today. Recordings of the acclaimed Parsifal production under the musical direction of the Spanish conductor will be released on June 28, 2024 in various audio and video formats by Deutsche Grammophon and confirm: Pablo Heras-Casado is one of the most influential Wagner conductors of his generation.

10 Jun 2024

Pablo Heras-Casado debuts at Opéra National de Paris

Pablo Heras-Casado debuts at Opéra national de Paris, conducting Mozart’s Così fan tutte at Palais Garnier. The first performance is scheduled for 10 June, with performances running until 9 July. The Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker production, conducted by Heras-Casado, runs through twelve performances and features a cast including Vannina Santoni...

23 May 2024

Jaume Plensa, Pablo Heras-Casado, Robert Wilson and the International Council head the 3rd Teatro Real Awards

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Teatro Real

Still with the warm applause received the night before in his memory, for his masterful direction of The Master Singers of Nuremberg on the same stage, Pablo Heras-Casado, principal guest conductor of the Teatro Real, having led more than twelve productions in the Madrid Opera House, received the first artistic award of the evening, presented by the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Community of Madrid, Mariano de Paco.

Heras-Casado recalled his first time at the Teatro Real, 18 years ago, and how here ‘he has had the opportunity to take on some of the greatest artistic challenges of his career. Here I have grown personally and professionally’. The maestro highlighted the enormous teamwork that takes place in this theatre, which has made it one of the most important in the world.

10 May 2024

Heras-Casado and Bieito, new ‘Ring’ at the Paris Opera 2025

Pablo Heras-Casado will conduct another complete Tetralogy. On 29 January he will premiere a new and eagerly awaited production at the Paris Opera with stage direction by Calixto Bieito. The two Spanish directors will work together again after their success with Die Soldaten at the Teatro Real in 2018. The...