The First Week’s Program Features Falla’s La vida breve; the Second Presents Cellist Lynn Harrell Performing Haydn

THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – 10, 2012, AT 8 PM

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 AND 17, 2012, AT 8 PM

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2012, AT 2 PM

November 8 Media Sponsor: KUSC

WHAT:       Conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in two weekend programs at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Thursday through Saturday, November 8 through 10, at 8 pm, and Friday and Saturday, November 16 and 17, at 8 pm as well as Sunday, November 18, at 2 pm.

                 The first weekend’s program pairs Beethoven’s cheerful Eighth Symphony with Falla’s La vida breve, a gritty tale of a woman wronged. The rare complete performance of the two-act opera features mezzo-soprano Nancy Fabiola Herrera as Salud; tenor Vicente Ombuena as Paco; mezzo-soprano Cristina Faus as La Abuela; bass-baritone Josep Miguel Ramón as Manuel; tenor Gustavo Peña as the Voice from the Forge; baritone Alfredo García as Tío Sarvaor; mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack as Carmela; Pedro Sanz as the Cantaor; guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Núria Pomares dances flamenco as part of this rarely seen work.

In all three performances of the second weekend, Frühbeck de Burgos leads the LA Phil and cellist Lynn Harrell in Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C, one of the composer’s best-known concertos. The Saturday and Sunday programs also include Haydn’s Symphony No. 6, “Le matin,” and all three dates include Ravel’s Bolero and Frühbeck de Burgos’ orchestration of Albéniz’ Suite Española.

The Friday concert of the second weekend is part of the LA Phil’s Casual Fridays series, which features a shorter program, is presented without intermission and encourages audience members to attend in comfortable attire. These Casual Fridays concerts also feature a free TalkBack discussion with musicians held on stage after the performance and a chance to mingle with members of the orchestra in the Concert Hall Café. 

Complete programs:

Thursday, November 8

Friday, November 9

Saturday, November 10

BEETHOVEN            Symphony No. 8

FALLA                     La vida breve

Friday, November 16

Saturday, November 17

Sunday, November 18

HAYDN                   Symphony No. 6, “Le matin” (Except Friday)

HAYDN                   Cello Concerto in C

ALBÉNIZ                (orch. Frühbeck de Burgos) 

    Suite Española (Castilla, Granada, Sevilla, Asturias,

    Aragón)

RAVEL                   Bolero

Upbeat Live pre-concert events takes place in Walt Disney Concert Hall’s BP Hall one hour prior to each concert, and are free to all ticket holders. Pianist, harpsichordist and conductor Lucinda Carver hosts.

For full artist biographies, please visit: laphil.com/DeBurgos

WHO/WHEN:   

Thursday, November 8, 2012, at 8 PM

Friday, November 9, 2012, at 8 PM

Saturday, November 10, 2012, at 8 PM

                        LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor

NANCY FABIOLA HERRERA, Salud, mezzo-soprano

VICENTE OMBUENA, Paco, tenor

CRISTINA FAUS, La Abuela, mezzo-soprano

JOSEP MIGUEL RAMÓN, Manuel, bass-baritone

GUSTAVO PEÑA, Voice from the Forge, tenor

ALFREDO GARCÍA, Tío Sarvaor, baritone

                        DANIELA MACK, Carmela, mezzo-soprano

NÚRIA POMARES, bailarina

PEDRO SANZ, Cantaor

PABLO SÁINZ-VILLEGAS, guitar

LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE

Grant Gershon, music director

Friday, November 16, 2012, at 8 PM

Saturday, November 17, 2012, at 8 PM

Sunday, November 18, 2012, at 2 PM

RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor

LYNN HARRELL, cello

WHERE:           WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

HOW TO PURCHASE:      

Subscriptions and single tickets for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2012/13 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall are currently available. To purchase, please visit LAPhil.com, the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office or any Ticketmaster outlet. To order by phone with credit card, please call the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office at 323.850.2000, or Ticketmaster at 800.745.3000. For more information, please call 323.850.2000.

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11.02.12

CONTACT: Sophie Jefferies, 213.972.3422, sjefferies@laphil.org

Lisa White, 213.972.3408, lwhite@laphil.org