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Stage Door is delighted to announce that Daniel Cohen has been named General Music
Director at the Stadtheater in Darmstadt.
The 34-years-old Israeli conductor will succeed Will Humburg.
M° Cohen will conduct a special concert on September 12 in Darmstadt,
the program will include Mozart’s Symphony no. 36 in C major (“Linzer”)
and Boulez’s Dérive 1.
Mayor Jochen Partsch said:
"We are gaining a young, dynamic musician who will certainly give new impulses
to our music city of Darmstadt. I am particularly happy that Daniel Cohen has committed
to our theater for five years. The unanimous vote of the search committee, the orchestra
and the opera ensemble are also reasons to be very happy. "
Art and Culture Minister Boris Rhein said
"With Daniel Cohen, we are gaining a young, but still very experienced artist
for Darmstadt and the state of Hesse. He is undoubtedly one of the great talents
of his generation, which is why I am delighted that he has chosen our state theater.
I am curious to see which artistic priorities he will set in the coming years. Daniel
Cohen certainly has the potential to shape an era. "
Daniel Cohen said:
“I am honored to be in a house where music has been made by such giants as Erich
Kleiber and Karl Böhm and where I experienced such joyous music making and devotion
to artistic expression. I am truly delighted to join such a furtail theater, a place
that embraces challenges and is committed to the highest artistic goals.”
Following his successful debut at the Staatsoper Berlin, conducting Stravinsky’s Rite
of Spring in the 2016- 17 season, Cohen was invited back to the Staatsoper
to conduct performances of Die Zauberflöte and Il barbiere di Siviglia,
as well as the revival of Klaus Guth’s production of Britten’s Turn of the
Screw.
During the 2015- 17 seasons, Cohen was a Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper Berlin,
where he conducted numerous performances, including such operas as Così fan
tutte, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dornröschen, Lucia
di Lammermoor, La Traviata and G. F. Haas' new opera Morgen und Abend.
Other operatic highlights include an acclaimed debut with the Canadian Opera Company
with Christopher Alden’s production of La clemenza di Tito, the Italian
premiere of D'Avalos' Maria di Venosa at the Festival della Valle
d’Itria, Massenet’s Don Quichotte at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo.
Cohen frequently works with the Israeli Opera where he conducted La Cenerentola,
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, Otello, Lady Macbeth
of Mtsensk, Pique Dame and Wozzeck.
Cohen symphonic work brought him to such orchestras as the Staatskapelle Berlin,
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Helsinki Philharmonic,
the RTÉ National Symphony in Dublin, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Israeli Philharmonic,
the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Sinfonieorchester Basel. Full bio
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