Antony Walker
With a repertoire of over 200 works from lyric opera, oratorio, choral and symphonic repertoire to his credit, Australian-born conductor Antony Walker is well-suited to the role of Music Director at Pittsburgh Opera and Artistic Director at Washington Concert Opera, positions he continues throughout the 2018/19 season. He has led performances at The Metropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera, English National Opera, Opera Australia, Santa Fe Opera, Welsh National Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Maggio Musicale di Firenze, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of San Francisco Opera to name a few. Antony is also Music Director at Washington Concert Opera, for whom he conducts two titles per year.
“The orchestra were on excellent form under the baton of Antony Walker. Noticeable form the start was their responsiveness and lively pace. The whole did not drag for an instant and the long first act (90 minutes) did not feel so at all. The playing thrillingly mirrored the violent loves and violent ends of the plot. All of these good things went with a production which was unashamedly fabulous.”
Bachtrack, Hilary Stroh, 28 April 2019
“Antony Walker stood before the chamber ensemble at the side of the stage and conducted effectively in an idiom far removed from the bel canto bounce that Washington Concert audiences have seen him do so often.”
Anne Midgette, The Washington Post, 11 February 2019
| Adams | Nixon in China |
|---|---|
| Barber | Vanessa |
| Bellini | I Capuleti e i Montecchi I Puritani La Sonnambula |
| Berlioz | Béatrice et Bénédict |
| Bizet | Carmen Les Pêcheurs de Perles |
| Britten | Billy Budd |
| Charpentier | David et Jonathas |
| Cilea | Adriana Lecouvreur |
| Donizetti | Roberto Devereux Maria Padilla Maria Stuarda Lucia di Lammermoor |
| Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice Iphigénie en Tauride |
| Gounod | Faust Roméo et Juliette |
| Handel | Acis and Galatea Alcina Giulio Cesare Semele Orlando |
| Haydn | L’Anima del Filosofo |
| Humperdinck | Hänsel und Gretel |
| Leoncavallo | I Pagliacci |
| Mascagni | Cavalleria Rusticana |
| Massenet | Esclarmonde Werther |
| Mercadante | Il Giuramento |
| Monteverdi | L’Orfeo Il Ritorno d’Ulisse |
| Mozart | Abduction from the Seraglio Cosi fan Tutte Die Zauberflöte Don Giovanni Idomeneo Le Nozze di Figaro Mitridate |
| Offenbach | Les Contes d’Hoffmann |
| Petitgirard | The Elephant Man |
| Poulenc | Les Dialogues des Carmélites |
| Puccini | Il Tabarro La Bohème Madame Butterfly Tosca Turandot |
| Purcell | Dido and Aeneas The Fairy Queen |
| Rameau | Castor et Pollux Dardanus |
| Rossini | Bianca e Falliero Il Barbiere di Siviglia L’Italiana in Algeri La Cenerentola La Donna del Lago Otello Tancredi |
| Ruders | The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Saint-Saens | Samson et Dalila |
| Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin The Queen of Spades |
| Verdi | Aida Falstaff Il corsaro I masnadieri La Traviata Luisa Miller Otello Rigoletto Stiffelio |
| Walton | Troilus and Cressida |
| Strauss | Guntram |
| Bach | Brandenburg Concertos Mass in b minor Piano Concerto in d minor St Matthew Passion |
|---|---|
| Banks | Sonata da Camera |
| Beethoven | Leonore Overture No.3 Missa Solemnis Piano Concertos 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Symphony No.1 Symphony No.2 Symphony No.3 (Eroica) Symphony No.4 Symphony No.5 Symphony No.7 Symphony No.8 Symphony No.9 |
| Berlioz | Le Corsaire Ouverture, Op.21 Te Deum |
| Borodin | Overture to Prince Igor |
| Boulez | Dérive |
| Brahms | Haydn Variations |
| Britten | War Requiem |
| Butterley | Spell of Creation |
| Chausson | Poème, Op.25 |
| Copland | Appalachian Spring |
| Dukas | The Sorcerer’s Apprentice |
| Dvorak | Cello Concerto |
| Edwards | Enyato |
| Elgar | Enigma Variations |
| Faure | La naissance de Vénus Requiem |
| Falkenberg | Edge of the World Piano Concerto |
| Guilment | Organ Symphony in D |
| Handel | Belshazzar Messiah Samson |
| Haydn | Trumpet Concerto Symphony No. 85 ‘La Reine’ Symphony No.104 (London) |
| Honegger | Le Roi David Symphony No.4 Pastorale d’été |
| Janacek | Glagolitic Mass |
| Khachaturian | Gayane Suite |
| Lim | Diabolical Birds |
| Lumsdaine | Kali Dances |
| Mahler | Adagietto from Symphony No.5 Symphony No.4 |
| Mendelssohn | A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture Italian Symphony |
| Mozart | Flute concerto no.2 in D Horn Concerto No.4 in EbMass in c minor Requiem Sinfonia Concertanta for Violin and Viola Solemn Vespers Symphony No. 29 in A Symphony No. 35 ‘Haffner’ Symphony No.40 in g |
| Part | Te Deum St John Passion |
| Prokofiev | Roméo et Juliette – 2nd suite |
| Ravel | Concerto for piano left hand Le Tombeau de Couperin Ma mère l’oye (suite) Pavane pour une infante défunte Shéhérézade |
| Rachmaninov | Variations on a theme of Paganini |
| Respighi | Three Botticelli Pictures |
| Saint-Saens | Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso Op.28 Cello concerto No.2 Symphony No.3 in c minor, Op.78 |
| Salieri | Overture to Les Danïdes |
| Shostakovitch | Viola Sonata, Op.147 Cello Concerto No.1 |
| Sibelius | Finlandia Karelia Suite |
| Sicilianos | Symphony No.2 |
| R. Strauss | Don Juan, Op.20 |
| Stravinsky | Les Noces The Firebird Suite |
| Tanguy | Incanto |
| Vaughan Williams | The Lark Ascending |
| Vieuxtemps | Violin concerto No.5 |
| Wagner | Siegfried Idyll |
| Weber | Der Freischütz Overture |
| Williams | John Williams Fantasy Suite |
| Witicker | Between Blue Rocks |
| Walton | Viola Concerto |
| Szymanowski | Stabat Mater |
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deborah@arbourartists.com