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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra debut

Nathalie Stutzmann is travelling to North America this week to take the baton with the renowned St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for three performances at the St. Louis Powell Hall on April 22, 23 and 24. The programme will open with Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, followed by Sibelius’ Violin Concerto with soloist Karen Gomyo and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7.

On her recent US conducting debut (with National Symphony Orchestra Washington), DCMetroTheaterArts commented: “For her, three dimensions weren’t enough to conduct with and her level of passion was truly an honor to witness.”

Nathalie’s performance of April 23 will be broadcast live worldwide on the KWMU St. Louis Public Radio at 8pm local time (GMT-5).
Listen here: http://www.stlpublicradio.org/listen.php

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US conducting debut this month

As the Christmas season is beginning, Nathalie Stutzmann is on the brink of making her American conducting debut with two renowned symphony orchestras: the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at Detroit Orchestra Hall on December 12 and 13, and the Washington National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center on December 17, 18, 19 and 20. She will be leading both orchestras in a signal Christmas work, Handel’s Messiah, with soloists Emoke Barath (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Lawrence Wiliford (tenor) and Stephen Powell (bass).

Conducting Messiah at the head of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra earlier this year, Nathalie’s performance received outstanding critical and audience praise: “Beautiful is just one word that can sum up this performance of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, given by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra as conducted by Liverpool Philharmonic debutant, Nathalie Stutzmann.(…) So impressive was Stutzmann’s control, energy and enthusiasm it brought from the choir at the end, during the second of three curtain calls, a spontaneous stamping of appreciative feet that is rarely if ever heard in this great auditorium.” (Click Liverpool, January 2015).

She will return to Washington in June, to sing Mahler’s Ruckert-Lieder with Christoph Eschenbach and National Symphony Orchestra.

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Nathalie Stutzmann awarded Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit of the Principality of Monaco

Following her concert with Orfeo 55 at Monte-Carlo Opera on November 11, Nathalie Stutzmann was awarded Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit of the Principality of Monaco by Her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline of Hanover, in honour of her work both as a singer and a conductor.

Her many successes in the Principality include having being the first woman in history to conduct an opera production in Monte-Carlo, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in 2014, which led to an immediate reinvitation to conduct a production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser in 2017.

© G.Luci- Palais princier de Monaco

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Nathalie Stutzmann appointed Associate Artist of São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

On October 1st, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) announced the appointment of Nathalie Stutzmann as Associate Artist for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 seasons, as both symphonic conductor and singer.

During this period, Nathalie’s time with the orchestra will increase, beginning with two weeks with OSESP in September 2016, during which she will be leading two programmes each composed of three concerts, including performances with pianist Khatia Buniatishvili as a soloist. She will also conduct a Free Morning Concert.

Nathalie has already performed several times with the OSESP, notably in 2013 while she was Artist in Residence.

 

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New Schubert lieder box set released

Winterreise, Die schöne Müllerin, Schwanengesang: the three major Schubert song-cycles recorded by Nathalie Stutzmann and her pianist Inger Södergren in 2004, 2005 and 2008 are now available together in a new box set (3 CDs) on Erato!*

“We’ve been able to improve the sound quality of the original recordings, and I’m satisfied that the remastered versions do full justice to the work we did back then”, says Nathalie. “I couldn’t do without Schubert in my life,” she adds.

This set also celebrates the 20th anniversary of her partnership with Inger Södergren.
A perfect Christmas gift for all classical music lovers!

Purchase online
* Outside France only. French release date is due on January 12, 2015.

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Nathalie Stutzmann headlines Opéra Magazine

10520683_10154918301210094_4273155140247402365_nJust a few days before launching her Handel Messiah tour with Orfeo 55, Nathalie Stutzmann headlines the French Opéra Magazine for an in-depth interview on her career.

Here is an excerpt:
“Heroes from the Shadows, votre nouvel enregistrement qui vient de paraître chez Erato, est consacré à  Haendel, un musicien qui vous est cher…
C’est un compositeur phare pour moi, il a écrit de si belles choses pour la voix de contralto ! Sa musique, y compris dans sa manière de traiter l’orchestre, est d’une richesse et d’une diversité qu’on ne perçoit pas toujours, car ses livrets sont très souvent construits sur des modèles identiques. J’ai chanté beaucoup de Haendel à la scène : le premier a été le rôle-titre d’Amadigi, aux côtés de Bernarda Fink en Dardano ; je me suis aperçue qu’elle avait un air admirable, que j’aimais encore plus que les miens, et j’ai commencé à  creuser cette question et à  me pencher sur les personnages autres que principaux. J’ai adoré incarner Giulio Cesare, mais les airs de Cornelia ou de Sesto sont aussi beaux que les siens – De même, si Radamisto est merveilleusement servi, Zenobia hérite aussi d?un air superbe.”

The rest of the interview in the magazine, downloadable here.

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