CONDUCTOR
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Jonathan Webb has conducted a wide range of musical genres and styles in both the concert and opera fields. He has collaborated with numerous directors including Goetz Friedrich, Hugo de Ana, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Robert Carsen, Graham Vick, David Poutney, David Alden, Daniele Abbado. Guest of several European opera houses: Berlin (Deutsche Oper): Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, La forza del destino, Carmen; Wien (Volksoper): Don Pasquale, Der Zigeunerbaron, Die Zauberflöte; Köln La Traviata; Sevilla (Teatro Maestranza): The Rape of Lucretia; Marseille The Saint of Bleeker Street; Nice: L’Histoire du Soldat, Dublin Le nozze di Figaro, Falstaff; Tenerife The Turn of the Screw; Leeds Opera North La Traviata. In Italy he conducted in Roma (Teatro dell’Opera) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Napoli (Teatro San Carlo): Elegy for Young Lovers, Così fan tutte; Firenze (Maggio Musicale) The Turn of the Screw, The Rape of Lucretia, Albert Herring; Venezia (Teatro La Fenice) Tancredi, Elegy for Young Lovers, Don Giovanni; Palermo (Teatro Massimo) Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Genova (Teatro Carlo Felice) Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, The Rape of Lucretia, Il Turco in Italia; Reggio Emilia, Bari (Teatro Petruzzelli): The Turn of the Screw, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Bologna, Parma, Catania, Cagliari; in Verona (Teatro Filarmonico): Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte; Ravenna, Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, Trento: Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Cremona, Como, Brescia, Ferrara, Modena: The Death of Klinghoffer. He has conducted for the Caesarea Festival, Israel (Turandot), at the Coruña Festival, Spain, Wexford, Settembre Musica with the Rai Orchestra of Torino, for the Liturgica Festival in Jerusalem as well as an unforgettable performance of Curlew River by Britten in Perugia, Sagra Musicale Umbra. Jonathan Webb began his career invited as a permanent conductor by Gary Bertini at the Tel Aviv Opera House where he conducted about 40 operas including Der Freischütz, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Macbeth, Samson et Dalila, Faust, Cenerentola, L’italiana in Algeri, L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor, Jenufa, The Cunning Little Vixen, La Juive. Invited by Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon where he conducted, in addition to concerts, Eine florentinische Tragödie, The Miserly Night, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Navarraise, Cavalleria rusticana, Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher (in the title role Isabelle Hupert). Invited by Seiji Ozawa to the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan, he toured Japan and China also as a pianist and harpsichordist, for the Ongaku Juku project for young musicians. At the invitation of Valery Gergiev he conducted Lady Macbeth of Mtsenskin a co-production between the Kirov Opera and the New Israeli Opera. He is involved in projects dedicated to young musicians: he conducted the Cherubini Orchestra of Ravenna (Poulenc and Menotti), the Italian Youth Orchestra of Fiesole (Stravinsky, Mahler and Silvia Colasanti’s first performance of The Minotaur), the Youth Orchestra and Choir of Santa Cecilia (Mendelssohn’s Oedipus in Kolonos as part of “Colosseo 2000”, reopening the Roman amphitheater for the first time after 1500 years). |
