Dallas Symphony Orchestra Announces Two-Week European Tour Scheduled for Summer 2024

Led by Music Director Fabio Luisi, the orchestra will perform in ten cities in Spain, Germany, Austria and Belgium

June 3 – 16, 2024

This will be the DSO’s first international tour since spring 2013

The DSO’s European tour is supported by the Linda and Mitch Hart Touring Fund

Soloists Anne-Sophie Mutter, Thomas Hampson and James Ehnes will join the DSO

DALLAS, TX (November 1, 2023) – The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Fabio Luisi (Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship) will embark on a two-week tour across Europe this summer, marking the first international tour of Luisi’s music directorship and the DSO’s first visit to Europe in over a decade. The ten-city tour will include stops in Spain, Germany, Austria and Belgium beginning June 3 through June 16. Luisi will lead the DSO in programs featuring Tchaikovsky’s Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and Lo que me mantiene despierto by former DSO composer-in-residence Angélica Negrón. Also of note, the orchestra will present the European premiere of composer-in-residence Sophia Jani’s new work, Flare, in her hometown of Munich, Germany. World-renowned soloists Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Thomas Hampson (baritone) and James Ehnes (violin) will be featured throughout the tour.

“We are thrilled to bring the orchestra to Europe this summer and are eager to share the musical partnership of Luisi and the DSO with international audiences,” said the DSO’s Ross Perot President & CEO Kim Noltemy. “Touring abroad puts the DSO in a unique position to not only reach new audiences, but also to elevate the city of Dallas’ position as a musical and cultural hub. We’re honored and proud to represent our wonderful city in this way.”

“It’s an honor to bring the music we enjoy week after week in Dallas to Europe once again,” added Linda Hart. “Mitch and I are proud of the Dallas Symphony, and we are pleased to do our part to help enhance the orchestra’s reputation around the world.”    

“I am incredibly proud of the sound that we have developed here in Dallas over the past three years working together,” said Luisi. “We have put together an exhilarating program for our European tour that will showcase the orchestra’s artistic range, from the epic intensity of Mahler to the delicate dreaminess of Angélica Negrón’s Lo que me mantiene despierto, to exploratory sounds from rising star Sophia Jani. It will be a joy to share performances in these esteemed venues in Europe.”

DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SUMMER 2024 EUROPEAN TOUR SCHEDULE

Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Fabio Luisi, conductor

Monday, June 3, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Auditorio del Palacio de Congresos | Zaragoza, Spain

ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN Lo que me mantiene despierto
WEILL Four Walt Whitman Songs (with Thomas Hampson, baritone)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Tuesday, June 4, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Auditorio Nacional de Musica | Madrid, Spain

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor (with James Ehnes, violin)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”

Wednesday, June 5, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Auditorio Nacional de Musica | Madrid, Spain

ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN Lo que me mantiene despierto
WEILL Four Walt Whitman Songs (with Thomas Hampson, baritone)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Friday, June 7, 2024, at 8:00 p.m.
Alte Oper Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany

ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN Lo que me mantiene despierto
WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Saturday, June 8, 2024, at 8:00 p.m.
Konzerthaus Freiburg | Freiburg, Germany

WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin)
MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

Sunday, June 9, 2024, at 8:00 p.m.
Isarphilharmonie | Munich, Germany

SOPHIA JANI Flare
WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Tuesday, June 11, 2024, at 8:00 p.m.
Elbphilharmonie | Hamburg, Germany

ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN Lo que me mantiene despierto
WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Konzerthaus Wien | Vienna, Austria

ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN Lo que me mantiene despierto
WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”

Friday, June 14, 2024, at 6:00 p.m.
Kolner Philharmonie | Cologne, Germany

ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN Lo que me mantiene despierto
WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E Minor

Saturday, June 15, 2024, at 8:00 p.m.
Philharmonie Essen Alfried-Krupp-Saal | Essen, Germany

WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin)
MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

Sunday, June 16, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
Bozar Music | Brussels, Belgium

WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin)
MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

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SOBRE LA ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA DE DALLAS
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Music Director Fabio Luisi, presents more than 150 orchestra concerts each year at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, one of the world’s top-rated concert halls. As the largest performing arts organization in the Southwest, the DSO is committed to inspiring the broadest possible audience with distinctive classical programs, inventive pops concerts and innovative multi-media presentations. As part of its commitment to the community, the orchestra reaches more than 243,000 adults and children annually through performances, educational programs and community outreach initiatives. The orchestra offers more than 200 outdoor chamber concerts in neighborhoods throughout Dallas each year, as well as music lessons to more than 900 students as part of its Young Strings and Young Musicians programs.

The Dallas Symphony has used digital and broadcast media to share music beyond its geographic boundaries and has become a leader among American orchestras in digital distribution. In 2021, the DSO presented a three-concert broadcast series with Bloomberg Media, reaching over 5 million viewers globally. In October 2021, PBS stations across the country began airing Una sinfonía, dos orquestas, a program that documented the historic May 2021 performance of Mahler’s First Symphony, a Luisi-led collaboration between the DSO and musicians from The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. That program was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in May 2022. The DSO also captures and streams concert performances for distribution online through its Next Stage Digital Concert Series. Programs are available on the DSO’s website at watch.dallassymphony.org.

The DSO has a tradition dating back to 1900 and is a cornerstone of the unique, 118-acre Arts District in Downtown Dallas that is home to multiple performing arts venues, museums and parks – the largest district of its kind in the nation. The DSO is supported, in part, by funds from the Office of Arts & Culture, City of Dallas. For more information, visit dallassymphony.org.

ABOUT FABIO LUISI
GRAMMY® Award winner Fabio Luisi launched his tenure as Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) at the start of the 2020/21 season. In January 2021, the DSO and Luisi announced an extension of the Music Director’s contract through the 2028/29 season. A maestro of major international standing, the Italian conductor is in his seventh season as Principal Conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and in September 2022, he assumed the role of Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. He previously served for six seasons as Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera and nine seasons as General Music Director of the Zurich Opera.

Luisi’s 2023/24 season with the Dallas Symphony will feature monumental works including Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Brahms’s A German Requiem and Liszt’s A Faust Symphony. He will also lead three world premieres: Jessie Montgomery’s Snapshots, Xi Wang’s Year 2020 (featuring Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet, and Karen Gomyo, violin) and Anna Clyne’s Piano Concerto (featuring Jeremy Denk). Luisi’s season will conclude with the first two operas in Wagner’s epic Anillo cycle, Das Rheingold y Die Walküre. The DSO and Luisi will continue the complete cycle in the 2024/25 season, marking the first time an American orchestra has mounted the full Anillo in recent history.

In October 2023, Luisi and the DSO will release the second of their recording projects, Brahms’s Symphony No. 3. Available through the DSO’s in-house label, DSO Live, this album joins the Fall 2022 release of Brahms’s First and Second Symphonies. During the 2023/24 season, the DSO and Luisi will record two projects for future album release – Franz Schmidt’s epic El libro con siete sellos and Saint-Saens’s Symphony No. 3, “Organ” which features the mighty Lay Family Concert Organ. Fabio Luisi’s recording of Nielsen’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra was awarded both Recording of the Year and Best Orchestral Recording at the 2023 Gramophone Awards.

Other highlights of the 2023/24 season include his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, concerts with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, his return to the podium of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra followed by a tour in Japan and Korea and several concerts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo). With the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, he will embark on a new recording series of the complete music of Aleksandr Scriabin for the renowned Deutsche Grammophon label in addition to the season concerts in Copenhagen.

El director de orquesta recibió su primer premio GRAMMY® en marzo de 2013 por su dirección de las dos últimas óperas de Wagner El anillo de los nibelungosCuando la edición en DVD de Deutsche Grammophon del ciclo completo, grabado en directo en el Met, fue nombrada mejor grabación de ópera de 2012. En febrero de 2015, la Philharmonia Zurich lanzó su sello Philharmonia Records con tres grabaciones de Luisi: Berlioz Symphonie fantastiqueun doble álbum que repasa los Preludios e Interludios de Wagner, y un DVD de la obra de Verdi Rigoletto. Las ediciones posteriores incluyen un estudio de los cuatro conciertos para piano de Rachmaninov y Rapsodia sobre un tema de Paganini con la solista Lise de la Salle, y una rara grabación de la versión original de la monumental Sinfonía nº 8 de Bruckner. La extensa discografía de Luisi incluye también raras óperas de Verdi (Jérusalem, Alzira y Aroldo), la de Salieri La locandiera, Bellini's Yo puritani y I Capuleti e i Montecchi con Anna Netrebko y Elīna Garanča para Deutsche Grammophon, y el repertorio sinfónico de Honegger, Respighi y Liszt. Ha grabado todas las sinfonías y el oratorio El libro con siete páginas Siegeln by neglected Austrian composer Franz Schmidt, several works by Richard Strauss for Sony Classical, and an award – winning account of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony with the Staatskapelle Dresden.

Nacido en Génova en 1959, Luisi comenzó a estudiar piano a los cuatro años y se diplomó en el Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini en 1978. Posteriormente estudió dirección de orquesta con Milan Horvat en la Universidad de Música y Artes Escénicas de Graz. Nombrado Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana y Commendatore della Stella d'Italia por su papel en la promoción de la cultura italiana en el extranjero, en 2014 fue galardonado con el Grifo d'Oro, el más alto honor otorgado por la ciudad de Génova, por su contribución al legado cultural de la ciudad. Fuera del podio, Luisi es un compositor consumado cuya Misa de San Buenaventura se estrenó mundialmente en la Universidad de San Buenaventura, y a continuación se estrenó en Nueva York en la serie MetLiveArts, con la Filarmónica y el Coro de Búfalo. Según informa el New York Times, CBS Sunday Morning y en otros lugares, también es un apasionado fabricante de perfumes, que produce en una operación de una sola persona, FLPARFUMS.COM.

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