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ONO Kazushi
© Johan Jacobs Kazushi Ono was appointed the Principal Conductor of Opera de Lyon from the beginning of the 2008/09 season. In his first
seasons there he conducts new productions of Profofiev, The Gamblers, Berg Lulu, Puccini Manon Lescaut and a new creation
by Saariaho, Emilie. This position affords him the opportunity to build on his success at La Monnaie ? De Munt, Brussels, where
he stepped down as Music Director in June 2008 after 6 hugely successful seasons. Ono?s debut production of Strauss?s
Elektra at La Monnaie was described by the Suddeutsche Zeitung as ?the miracle of Brussels?. Kazushi Ono has conducted
almost all Wagner?s operas, notably the complete Ring cycle at the Badisches Staatstheater of Karlsruhe, where he was Music
Director from 1996 to 2002. Recent operatic highlights include the Opera de Paris with Hindemith Cardillac, Metropolitan Opera
with Verdi Aida, La Scala Milan for Verdi Macbeth and Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Glyndebourne Festival
Opera with Humperdink Hansel & Gretel. Kazushi Ono regularly appears as guest conductor with many leading international
orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra, London Philharmonic and Santa Cecilia Rome. His work with radio orchestras includes Orchestre Philharmonique de
Radio France, Vienna Radio Symphony, BBC Symphony and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Danish Radio, Finnish Radio,
RAI Turin and numerous German radio orchestras including Hamburg, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Cologne. In 2006 he
made his debut at the BBC Proms in London with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Discography on Cypres
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Sophie Karthäuser - Mozart Arias - Live at La Monnaie / De Munt (Ref.: CYP8602)
Sophie Karthäuser is a truly outstanding Mozart soprano, she sang her first Pamina under René Jacobs at La Monnaie / De Munt, her first Susanna under William Christie and Ilia under Marc Minkowski in Aix-en-Provence. Here is the recording of a recital she sang at La Monnaie in 2006.
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Philippe Boesmans, Julie (Ref.: CYP4626)
Five years after the huge success of Wintermärchen, Philippe Boesmans returns with his fourth opera, Julie. An intimate work, an in camera drama of tortuous human relationships. Thanks to three superb singers, a chamber orchestra and an extraordinary conductor, Julie is perhaps "the finest opera score Boesmans has so far written" (De Morgen).
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