OPL Concert Announced at CAPE Ettelbruck

The Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg - OPL) will play a concert at CAPE Ettelbruck this Friday 16 October 2020 at 20:00.

For this new concert, the OPL will be under the direction of Domingo Hindoyan who replaces US conductor Kensho Watanabe, who was initially invited for this concert but can no longer travel to the Grand Duchy due to international travel restrictions.

The concert programme remains unchanged and will begin with Idylle de Siegfried WWV 103, a work composed by Richard Wagner, and based on motifs from the third act of The Ring of Nibelung, for his wife Cosima on the occasion of her birthday and to celebrate the birth of their son Siegfried.

The OPL will then perform Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, inspired by the composer's crossing of Scotland in July 1829: enchanted by the austere savagery of the landscapes, it is in front of the ruined castle of Mary Stuart that he sketched the first motifs. Long abandoned, the work was not completed until 1842.

Domingo Hindoyan, born in 1980, is a conductor with a prolific career leading internationally recognised ensembles and orchestras including the Metropolitan Opera NY, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, the Opéra National de Paris and many more. Domingo was recently appointed as the next conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he began his musical studies as a violinist and member of the Venezuelan music education programme El Sistema, before continuing his studies in conducting in Europe at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva with Professor Laurent Gay.

Tickets cost €26 (€13 for under-26s) or €1.50 with a Kulturpass and can be reserved via tel.: 2681-2681 or email: billetterie@cape.lu.