Jesús López Cobos .......Laurent Pelly
78, A Conductor of Surpassing Elegance and Lively Spirit, has Died
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A CONDUCTOR of surpassing elegance and lively spirit, Jesús López Cobos has died in Berlin at the age of 78.
López Cobos made his professional debut in 1969, leading Die Zauberflöte at La Fenice. His international reputation grew in the 1970s, with debuts at Deutsche Oper Berlin, San Francisco Opera, Opéra de Paris and Covent Garden. He was appointed music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1981, continuing in that position until 1990; in 1987, López Cobos led the Deutsche Oper forces in the first full Ring cycle staged in Japan. He also served as principal guest conductor of the LPO (1981–86); music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (1986–2001), where he remained music director emeritus at the time of his death; the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (1990–2000); and the Teatro Real (2003–10).
López Cobos conducted thirty-six performances of four operas at the Met. He made his company debut in February 1978, pacing Montserrat Caballé, Fiorenza Cossotto and José Carreras in a revival of Cilèa’s Adriana Lecouvreur. Later that month, López Cobos conducted the Met’s new production of Donizetti’s Favorita, with Cossotto, Luciano Pavarotti and Sherrill Milnes. López Cobos was then absent from the Met until 2005, when he returned to lead a revival of Massenet’s Manon, with Renée Fleming. The Met teamed the conductor and the soprano again in 2008, for a new John Cox staging of Massenet’s Thaïs.
A prolific recording artist, López Cobos led essential performances on disc of Rossini’s Otello (Philips, 1978) and of the original, unadorned version of Lucia di Lammermoor (Philips, 1976).
Jesús López Cobos
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Jesús López Cobos (25 February 1940 – 2 March 2018) was a Spanish conductor
López Cobos died in Berlin, Germany, on 2 March 2018, age 78 of cancer-related causes.
López Cobos was born in Toro, Zamora, Spain. He studied at Complutense University of Madrid and graduated with a degree in philosophy. Later he studied conducting with Franco Ferrara and with Hans Swarowsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
From 1981 to 1990 he was general music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and from 1984 to 1988 he was music director of the Orquesta Nacional de España. From 1986 to 2001 he served as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and from 1990 to 2000 he was principal conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. From 2003 to 2010 he served as music director of the Teatro Real in Madrid. He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternit
Laurent Pelly
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Laurent Pelly Director
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Laurent Pelly's arresting production of Leonard Berstein's Candide was dark and satirical, smartly juxtaposing the exuberant buoyancy of the music with the cruelty of Voltaire's message - all is not for the best in this best of all possible worlds. The show leapt out of a book: Chantal Thomas's set placed the action on sheaves of paper, and projections created by 59 Productions ranged from blood stains to old engravings of jungles. Mr Pelly also created the witty costumes - in the Venice casino scene, for example, characters were actually wearing money.
Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal, Candide, Santa Fe Opera
Laurent Pelly is one of France's most sought-after directors of both theatre and opera, working in the world’s most prestigious houses. He is particularly renowned for his work in French repertoire. He designs costumes for all of his productions, sometimes also undertaking set design.
New productions in 2018-19 include Lucia di Lammermoor for Opera Philadelphia and Wiener Staatsoper, Falstaff at Teatro Real Madrid, in co-production with La Monnaie/de Munt and Opéra national de Bordeaux and Offenbach’s Barbe bleue for L’Opéra de Lyon. Numerous revivals include Cendrillon at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Viva la mamma! in Geneva, Les contes d’Hoffmann at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, L’elisir d’amore in Paris, La fille du regiment at the Royal Opera House, London and Don Pasquale at La Monnaie/de Munt. Most recently he directed a new production of Candide for the Santa Fe Opera and Il barbiere di Siviglia for the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, also on tour to the 2018 Edinburgh International Festival.
Co-Director of Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées 2008-18, highlights include Carlo Gozzi’s L’oiseau vert, winner of the French critics Best Scenic Elements award 2015 and which transferred to the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris in Spring 2018, Aristophane’s Les Oiseaux, Ionesco’s La cantatrice chauve, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Victor Hugo’s Mille cents francs de récompense (also at l’Odéon in Paris).
Laurent Pelly is a French opera and theatre director born in Paris in 1962. He enjoys a career as one of France's most sought after directors of both theatre and opera, working regularly in the world’s most prestigious houses.
In 1980 (at the age of 18) he founded the Compagnie Théâtrale du Pélican which, since 1982, has been co-directed with Agathe Mélinand. From 1994, he became associated with Le Centre Dramatique National des Alpes (CDNA), Grenoble being appointed as director from 1997 to 2007. In 2007 he was appointed as co-director, with Agathe Mélinand, at the Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (TNT). Laurent Pelly is particularly renowned for his work in French repertoire, and has a skill for revealing the serious side of comedy. He underlines his interpretation of characters through skilful and inspired costume designs and in recent years has expanded into set design. His productions are detailed, satirical, often surreal, exquisite in taste and wonderfully imaginative in both conception and execution. Many of Laurent Pelly’s productions have been filmed for DVD and broadcast on world wide television.
Premières répétitions Il Barbiere di Siviglia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieq6yOaN0kU
L'oiseau vert de Carlo Gozzi - Mise en scène Laurent Pelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjyjSdNJZOo
Natalie Dessay, Charles Castronovo - Saint Sulpice duet (Manon) Toulouse 13/10/13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yBdmn0Mdfc