Warwick Arts Centre Concert Series 2014/15

CONCERT SERIES 2014 / 15

Plus: Met Opera Live and Coull Quartet

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WELCOME Crack open the champagne – the 2014/15 Concert Series celebrates not just one anniversary, but TWO! On 12 October 1974, Warwick Arts Centre opened its doors for the first time. Forty years on, with millions of tickets sold, Warwick Arts Centre continues its mission to be the most distinctive arts centre in the UK today.

Nine years earlier, in the autumn of 1965, the University of Warwick welcomed its very first cohort of students, and thus 2015 finds the University celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

Our 2014/15 series celebrates these two milestones with a programme of great orchestral music, played by some of our favourite partners and featuring some of the greatest musicians, many of whom we are lucky to call friends.

In light of this season of celebration, two symbolic concerts bookend our concert series. On Tuesday 7 October, the closest we could get to the moment 40 years ago when we opened our doors, is a concert by the Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recognized as one of the finest symphonic collectives, they will perform a programme of Russian ‘greats’.

To close the Series on 21 May 2015, for the University of Warwick’s 50th Anniversary, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play a programme of unparalleled American music

by Copland, Bernstein and Gershwin. What better way to celebrate the universal appeal of classical music and Warwick Arts Centre’s reputation for international programming?

The rest of the programme is equally joyous.

We have invited some of our best ‘classical friends’ to help us celebrate in style! Peter Donohoe, a local artist with an international reputation; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, who have been playing Warwick Arts Centre since it opened; friends from all corners of the UK, including the Philharmonia and Royal Northern Sinfonia; and international guests Warsaw Philharmonic and Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra. Each brings us music that has stood the test of time, some well-known pieces, others less familiar, but equally absorbing, and which we know you will love for a thousand different reasons.

Read on for more details. And join us for the celebrations!

Alan Rivett Director Warwick Arts Centre Thanks to the University of Warwick for the continued support of Warwick Arts Centre.

Warwick Arts Centre The University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Cover image: Katy Woolley, Philharmonia Orchestra, P10 Words: Richard Bratby

Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra Tue 7 Oct 2014 7.30pm Tchaikovsky Rachmaninov interval Tchaikovsky

Marche Slave Piano Concerto No.3

Conductor Piano

Valery Poliansky Peter Donohoe

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If classical music is about anything, it’s about emotion – and no-one understood emotion like Tchaikovsky. “With desire and passion”, he wrote on the score of his Fifth Symphony, and this grand, sweeping romantic epic begins in despair, and ends in roof-raising celebration.

No wonder it’s one of the most popular symphonies ever composed – and you haven’t really heard it at all until you’ve heard it played by a genuine Russian orchestra and conductor.

Valery Poliansky has been Artistic Director of the Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra for over two decades; together, they’ll drive straight to the heart of Tchaikovsky’s inspiration. First, though, they tackle the Everest of Romantic Piano Concertos – Rachmaninov’s mighty Third Concerto.

Fans of the film Shine will remember it defeating David Helfgott: no fear of that tonight, as Poliansky and his team are joined by a real giant amongst British pianists, Peter Donohoe. This should be a first night to remember.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 Valery Poliansky

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In conversation with pianist Peter Donohoe.

The Hallé Sat 8 Nov 2014 7.30pm

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In Memoriam Symphony No.5

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Symphony No.8

“I go all over the world to work with marvellous orchestras” says Sir Mark Elder, “yet still I miss the Hallé, what we have together. They know the way I work, they play so beautifully, they retain their curiosity...

You can take musical risks.” After 14 years as music director of the Halle, Elder and his Manchester orchestra are one of the great musical partnerships of our time.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with conductor Sir Mark Elder.

Sibelius’s Fifth begins with a crisp northern dawn and ends in a blaze of glory – and one of the simplest yet noblest melodies ever ˇ written. Dvorák’s gloriously tuneful Eighth, meanwhile, is just pure sunshine! The Hallé has been playing the music of Sibelius and Dvorák ˇ ever since it was written, but Elder begins with a personal speciality: a poignant lament by the neglected English romantic Arnold Bax. All of them will get the authentic Elder/Hallé treatment tonight: style, passion, and absolute commitment.

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Armonico Consort

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Sun 14 Dec 2014 7.30pm Handel

Messiah

Conductor Soprano Countertenor Tenor Bass

Christopher Monks Elin Manahan-Thomas William Towers Nathan Vale Andrew Davies

Forget the National Anthem. Forget Rule Britannia! And even forget Jerusalem. Nearly three centuries on, one masterpiece reigns unchallenged as the ultimate musical national institution. There’s simply nothing more British than Handel’s Messiah. Every Valley Shall Be Exalted, The Trumpet Shall Sound, He Was Despised, For Unto Us a Child is Born, and of course Hallelujah! – everyone knows the tunes.

If you’ve never heard the Messiah complete, you’ve missed out on one of music’s most uplifting experiences. And if you have, there’s no better way to rediscover it than with this Christmas performance by Armonico Consort – the acclaimed Midlands-based ensemble that uses period instruments, internationally-renowned soloists and a superb, scaled-down professional choir to get as close as possible to the sound – and spirit – of Handel’s own time. Messiah has never sounded livelier, so go on, you deserve it: give yourself an early Christmas treat!

Royal Northern Sinfonia Sat 24 Jan 2015 7.30pm Barber Mozart interval Copland Mozart

Adagio Clarinet Concerto

Director Clarinet

Kyra Humphreys Emma Johnson

Clarinet Concerto Symphony No.29

When clarinettist Emma Johnson won BBC Young Musician of the Year back in 1984, the musical world discovered an artist of unique charm, skill and charisma. Widely regarded as Britain’s favourite clarinettist, Johnson is still one of the most popular figures on the concert scene, with an unparalleled ability to speak straight to an audience’s heart.

And that’s what she’ll do tonight, in Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Concerto – music that regularly tops the Classic FM Hall of Fame.

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But that’s just one facet of Johnson’s musical personality, and Copland’s all-American Concerto – by turns lyrical and irresistibly jazzy – shows an altogether sassier side of this wonderful soloist. The Northern Sinfonia, under its leader Kyra Humphreys, matches these two concertos with another piece of classic Americana – Barber’s haunting Adagio – and a joyous portrait of Mozart at the height of his teenage genius: the galloping strings and whooping horns of his exuberant 29th Symphony.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50. Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with Director Kyra Humphreys.

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Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Sitkovetsky

Wed 18 Feb 2015 7.30pm Sibelius Tchaikovsky interval Rachmaninov

Karelia Suite Violin Concerto

Conductor Violin

Alexander Dmitriev Alexander Sitkovetsky

Symphony No.2

Maybe it’s the expressive woodwind; maybe it’s the blazing power of the brass. Or maybe it’s just the way that each musician seems to commit, body and soul, to every note they play. But it’s undeniable: there’s nothing on earth quite like great Russian music being played by a great Russian orchestra. The Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra has an incredible history – this is the very group that premiered Shostakovich’s Seventh in wartime Leningrad.

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But tonight it’s all about romance, as the stunning young Anglo-Russian violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky joins the orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s lyrical Violin Concerto, and Alexander Dmitriev conducts Rachmaninov’s huge, sweeping Second Symphony. With its stormy vistas, passionate melodies and rapturous love-song of a slow movement, Rachmaninov’s Second might just be the most romantic symphony ever written. And you’ll never hear it played with more intensity, authenticity, or sheer love than you will tonight.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50. Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky.

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European Union Chamber Orchestra

John Lill

Thu 26 Feb 2015 7.30pm Holst Haydn interval Grieg Beethoven

St Paul’s Suite Symphony No.59

Conductor Piano

Hans-Peter Hofmann John Lill

Two Elegiac Melodies Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat

You know spring is on its way when the European Union Chamber Orchestra comes to Warwick. It’s small in size, but don’t be misled - this a group with a big personality. The EUCO draws its members from Europe’s finest young professional musicians, and the result is a chamber orchestra that plays with the panache of a virtuoso, the enthusiasm of a youth orchestra, and the finesse of a top string quartet.

Tonight, true to their Europe-wide mission, these outstanding players bring their special freshness to a programme that spans the continent.

Holst’s delightful St Paul’s Suite is a long way from the radiant Nordic light of Grieg’s Elegiac Pieces, and even further from the blazing invention of Haydn’s Fire symphony. But they’re all just as inspired – as is Beethoven’s brilliant Second Piano Concerto.

Experience meets youthful energy, as the EUCO teams up with a true legend amongst Beethoven interpreters – the incomparable John Lill.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50. Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with pianist John Lill.

Hans-Peter Hofmann

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Philharmonia Orchestra

Katy Woolley

Wed 11 Mar 2015 7.30pm Beethoven Strauss interval Brahms

Egmont Overture Horn Concerto No.2

Conductor French Horn

Tugan Sokhiev Katy Woolley

Symphony No.2

When Brahms went on holiday to the Austrian Alps, all his troubles fell away. Imagine a summer landscape of glowing hillsides, flowering meadows and quiet forests; now imagine a symphony so songful and warm that one of its main tunes even sounds just like Brahms’s Lullaby.

That’s Brahms’s Second Symphony, and from its tender opening to its ebullient knees-up of a finale, it’s one of those pieces that just make you feel good to be alive. It’s the happy ending to a concert that opens in the triumph and tragedy of Beethoven’s heroic Egmont overture, before throwing seriousness out the window with the delightfully bubbly little concerto that the teenage Richard Strauss wrote for his hornplaying dad.

The soloist tonight is the Katy Woolley, the Philharmonia’s own astonishing young co-principal horn – and the latest in a long line of virtuoso principals in this famous London orchestra. Tugan Sokhiev, music director of the Bolshoi, brings all his dramatic flair.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50. Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with members of the Philharmonia.

Tugan Sokhiev

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Baiba Skride

Fri 8 May 2015 7.30pm

Mozart interval Bruckner

Violin Concerto No.4

Conductor Violin

Andris Nelsons Baiba Skride

Symphony No.7

Anton Bruckner heard the beginning of his Seventh Symphony in a dream - played by an angel. You’ll realise why when you hear its soaring opening theme, and that’s just the beginning of one of romantic music’s most stirring spiritual odysseys: a voyage through sunlit mountain peaks and lilting waltz-tunes, blazing triumph and tragic depths.

CBSO Music Director Andris Nelsons has built a global reputation as an interpreter of the German romantic repertoire – he’s one of the youngest conductors ever to be invited to conduct at Richard Wagner’s Bayreuth Festival – and in his final season with the CBSO, this is an unmissable opportunity to hear him in the music closest to his heart. He’s joined by his friend and fellow-Latvian, violinist Baiba Skride, in the teenage Mozart’s lovely Fourth Violin Concerto – the musical equivalent of a refreshing sorbet before Bruckner’s well-aged steak!

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50. Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with violinist Baiba Skride

Andris Nelsons

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Warsaw Philharmonic

Claire Maghnagi

Fri 15 May 2015 7.30pm Schubert interval Beethoven

Symphony No. 3

Conductor Soprano Mezzo Tenor Baritone Choir

Jacek Kaspszyk Claire Maghnagi Hannah Pedley Andrew Rees Paul Carey Jones University of Warwick Chorus

Symphony No. 9

“I embrace you, oh you millions – here’s a kiss for all the world!”

Beethoven never did anything by halves – but there’s a good reason why his Ninth Symphony changed the history of music, and why every performance is a special occasion. From tragic opening to its final, overwhelming Hymn to Joy it’s one of the greatest emotional journeys in all music, and the supreme test of any conductor and orchestra.

Meeting that challenge tonight is the Warsaw Philharmonic and its energetic new music director Jacek Kaspszyk, who are joined by the University of Warwick Chorus. As a team, Kaspszyk and the Warsaw Philharmonic are already winning rave reviews in their native Poland; their current tour is a first chance to feel that electricity here in Warsaw’s twinned city of Coventry. Schubert’s playful Third Symphony raises the curtain – a delicious showcase for an orchestra and a conductor with a sense of humour, and the perfect appetiser for the tremendous musical adventure to follow.

Please note: Choir stall seats not available on this concert.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50. Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with Jonathan James.

Jacek Kaspszyk

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Thu 21 May 2015 7.30pm Bernstein Copland Gershwin interval Gershwin Bernstein Bernstein

Candide Overture Rodeo Rhapsody in Blue

Conductor Piano

David Abell Wayne Marshall

American in Paris On the Town: Three Dance Episodes West Side Story Symphonic Dances

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Life, liberty and big, big tunes! Take raw optimism, add endless confidence and a wagon full of swinging melodies, and you’ve got yourself a supersized helping of American music.

And whether we’re hearing the plain-speaking cowboys of Aaron Copland’s Wild West, or the high-kicking hustlers of Leonard Bernstein’s Big Apple, the thrill is unmistakable. Gershwin tap-dances through jazzage Paris, John Adams streaks down a freeway – you know the tunes already, but one thing’s for sure: they sound even better performed live, in honour of the University of Warwick’s 50th anniversary.

David Abell conducts the Royal Philharmonic – the nation’s favourite orchestra – and the one and only Wayne Marshall brings all his inimitable flair to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue: the sassiest, most swinging toast to New York ever composed. So, as we welcome the summer, join Abell and his orchestra as they lift the roof of the Butterworth Hall with a concert that simply shouts ‘celebration’!

Wayne Marshall

As part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations, music ensembles from the University of Warwick will play a set from the American Songbook, and a set from the Warwick Global Songbook to open the concert. Following this, the University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra will perform alongside the RPO during their concert.

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Coull Quartet Concerts 2014/15

Violin Violin Viola Cello

Roger Coull Philip Gallaway Rose Redgrave Nicholas Roberts

Bedrich Smetana called his first string quartet From My Life – but that could double as the title of every piece in this year’s series of concerts from the Coull Quartet. When a full symphony orchestra lets fly in a great romantic symphony, it’s easy to hear the emotion. But string quartets tell a different story: ideas and feelings that are simply too profound, too intimate, and too beautiful to shout out loud.

This is music straight from the heart, entrusted to four players who’ve devoted their lives to uncovering its secrets.

The Coull Quartet has been sharing that experience at Warwick University for five decades now. And whether it’s Michael Tippett finding inner peace in wartime England, Tchaikovsky dancing in the Italian sun, or Ludwig van Beethoven going for broke in the most thrilling music even he ever wrote, there’s something here that will speak to you.

PRE-CONCERT TALKS 6.15pm £1. Subscribers FREE All Coull Quartet concerts are preceded by a talk in the Helen Martin Studio.

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The Coull Quartet’s 40th Anniversary Season Tickets per concert £18.50 (£16.50) Subscribers can save up 20% on Coull Quartet Concerts if they book in advance - see booking form or ask at Box Office.

Autumn Surprise

Piano Extravaganza

Wed 15 Oct 2014 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio

Mon 3 Nov 2014 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio

Mozart Quartet in C K465 The Dissonance Tippett Quartet No.2 in F sharp Smetana Quartet No.1 in E minor From My Life In chamber music, one note can unlock a world.

For Bedrich Smetana, that one note was the sound of his own impending deafness, the final tragedy in a life of dizzying joys and desperate sorrows. Somehow, he put it all into one of the liveliest, loveliest and most heart-breaking string quartets ever written – practically an opera for four players.

Schubert Quartet in E flat D87 Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op.57 Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat Op.44 Genius loves company, and when you add a piano to a string quartet, it opens up a new dimension.

Schubert’s delightful teenage string quartet raises the curtain, before the Coull Quartet are joined by pianist Richard Markham for Shostakovich’s big, bold, no-holds-barred Piano Quintet, written on the eve of the Second World War.

Mozart sets up a wonderful surprise in the very first minute of his Dissonance quartet (the clue’s in the title) – and then the Coull share the joy of rediscovery in Michael Tippett’s vibrant wartime Second Quartet: music that manages to sing, dance and sigh at the same time!

And then Robert Schumann tells a very different tale. Schumann was a man in love: his Piano Quintet is so ardent that it almost trips over itself! Love songs, whispered secrets, and pure, headlong happiness – it’s as enjoyable to play as it is to listen to, and Markham and the Coulls will live every note.

Late Quartets

Grand Tour

Thu 12 Feb 2015 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio

Mon 20 Apr 2015 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio

Beethoven Quartet in E flat Op.127 Beethoven Quartet in B flat Op.130

with Grosse Fuge Op.133 “What do I care for your wretched fiddle when I am talking to my God”? Ludwig van Beethoven saw further than other men – and he didn’t care how hard that made it on his musicians! But the results were quite simply transcendent, and Beethoven’s visionary late string quartets might just be the greatest chamber music ever written some would say the greatest music, full stop.

Tonight the Coull Quartet take on this supreme challenge, pairing the gentlest and the grandest of Beethoven’s late quartets, and finishing with the heaven-storming Grosse Fuge – music once said to be unplayable. This will be quite an occasion.

Coull Quartet

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with Gustav Clarkson, Viola and Michal Kaznowski, Cello Brahms Sextet in No.2 in G Op.36 Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op.70

Take a string quartet, add a viola and a cello, and suddenly the sun shines in. There’s just something about string sextets – something warm, something songful; no wonder that when string players want to relax, this is the music they turn to!

Tonight, the Coull Quartet invite two of their greatest musical friends to celebrate the end of the season, first with the swinging tunes and deep, mellow harmonies of Brahms’s Second Sextet, and then with the unbuttoned Mediterranean fun of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence. This is Tchaikovsky in holiday mood, and there’s no more entertaining way for six string players to let their hair down. Come and join the party!

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English Piano Trio

CHAMBER CONCERT English Piano Trio plays Schubert

Rigoletto

MET OPERA LIVE ENCORE SCREENINGS Your chance to see some of the most popular Met Opera screenings from recent years. If you’ve not experienced one before, why not try them out with this special taster price?

Sun 10 May 2015 3pm Helen Martin Studio

Cinema £18 (£11 restricted view)

Schubert Schubert interval Schubert

Rigoletto Verdi

Sonatina in G minor for violin and piano Op.posth.137 No.3 Arpeggione sonata in A minor for cello and piano

Thu 24 Jul 7.30pm Originally transmitted on February 16, 2013 Trio in B flat Op.99

If chamber music is “the music of friends”, Schubert’s is surely the friendliest of all – a twenty-something composer who lived in coffee houses and student apartments, while quietly exploring the deepest corners of the human soul.

In this all-Schubert programme, the English Piano Trio – making a welcome return to Warwick after their acclaimed series of concerts last year – explores three facets of this most loveable of composers.

There’s a jewel-like miniature for violin and piano, the irresistible melody of the Arpeggione sonata, and best of all, the sunlit inspiration of Schubert’s glorious Piano Trio Op.99. Three become one - and sing their hearts out.

Please note: Tickets for this concert are not part of the Concert Series subscription offer, and will go on general sale on Mon 11 Aug 2014.

Director Michael Mayer placed his production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960. Piotr Beczala is the womanizing Duke, Željko Lucic is his tragic sidekick Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto’s daughter, Gilda.

The Enchanted Island various Sun 24 Aug 2.30pm Originally transmitted January 21, 2012 In The Enchanted Island, the lovers from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are shipwrecked on his other-wordly island of The Tempest. Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th century, the work showcases arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others, and a new libretto devised and written

by Jeremy Sams.

La Fanciulla del West Puccini Thu 18 Sep 8.15pm Originally transmitted January 8, 2011 Puccini’s wild-west opera had its world premiere in 1910 at the Met. On the occasion of its centennial, all-American diva Deborah Voigt sings the title role of the girl of the golden west, starring with Marcello Giordani and Lucio Fallo, and conducted by Nicola Luisotti.

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The Merry Widow

MET OPERA LIVE 2014/15 Tickets: £26.50 (£21.50). Restricted view £11

Les Contes d’Hoffman

On sale from Fri 16 May 2014:

On sale from Mon 1 Sep 2014:

Macbeth Verdi

The Merry Widow Lehár

Sat 11 Oct 5.55pm

Sat 17 Jan 5.55pm

Conductor: Fabio Luisi Director: Adrian Noble

Conductor: Andrew Davis Director: Susan Stroman

Cast: Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Zeljko Lucic, René Pape

Cast: Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Alek Shrader, Thomas Allen

Le Nozze di Figaro Mozart

Les Contes d’Hoffman Offenbach

Sat 18 Oct 5.55pm

Sat 31 Jan 5.55pm

New Production Conductor: James Levine Director: Richard Eyre

Conductor: Yves Abel Director: Bartlett Sher

Cast: Marina Poplavskaya, Marlis Petersen, Isabel Leonard, Peter Mattei, Ildar Abdrazakov

Carmen Bizet Sat 1 Nov 4.55pm Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado Director: Richard Eyre

La Donna Del Lago

Cast: Hibla Gerzmava, Kate Lindsey, Vittorio Grigolo, Thomas Hampson

DOUBLE BILL: Iolanta Tchaikovsky

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Bartok Sat 14 Feb 5.30pm

Cast: Anita Hartig, Anita Rachvelishvili, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ildar Abdrazakov

Conductor: Valery Gergiev Director: Mariusz Trelinski

The Death of Klinghoffer Adams

Cast (Iolanta): Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Alexey Markov, Elchin Azizov, Alexei Tanovitski Cast (Duke Bluebard’s Castle): Nadja Michael, Mikhail Petrenko

Sat 15 Nov 5.55pm Conductor: David Robertson Director: Tom Morris

La Donna Del Lago Rossini

Cast: Michaela Martens, Sean Panikkar, Paulo Szot, Ryan Speedo Green, Alan Opie, Aubrey Allicock

Sat 14 Mar 4.55pm

Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg

Cast: Paul Curran Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, John Osborn, Juan Diego Flórez, Oren Gradus

Conductor: Michele Mariotti Director:

Wagner

Sat 13 Dec 5pm Conductor: James Levine Director: Otto Schenk Cast: Annette Dasch, Karen Cargill, Johan Botha, Paul Appleby, Johan Reuter, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Hans-Peter König, Martin Gantner, Matthew Rose

DOUBLE BILL:

Cavalleria Rusticana Mascagni Pagliacci Leoncavallo Please note this is an encore screening.

Sat 3 May 5.30pm Conductor: Fabio Luisi Director: David McVicar Cast (Cavalleria Rusticana): Marcelo Álvarez, Zeljko Lucic Eva-Maria Westbroek Cast (Pagliacci): Patricia Racette, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze, Lucas Meachem

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Warwick Arts Centre has charitable status (as part of the University of Warwick) and if you’ve booked recently you’ll have heard about donations supporting our artistic commissioning work and our pioneering education work in the local community. Read on to find out what we’ve been doing with your generous donations.

Terms & Conditions for Subscription Tickets • Subscription forms are not returnable.

• Tickets may be exchanged for other concerts within the main series, but not for any other events.

• Booking fees do not apply to subscription tickets.

• We number booking forms in order received by the Box Office

and subscriptions are processed in the order in which they are received.

Education work Donations have enabled us to offer, for free, expert artists to intrigue and inspire the school children participating in our Sculpture and Colour Trails.

This will be continued throughout the year. Donations are also helping support workshops in schools with professional companies performing at Warwick Arts Centre.

Artistic commissioning In Summer 2014, we are delighted to be co-commissioning Gecko’s Institute.

Gecko has a reputation for generating unique worlds, exquisite stage-craft and breathtaking choreography.

We’re also co-producing Theatre Des Bouffes Du Nord’s The Valley of Astonishment. Directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne the performance at Warwick Arts Centre will be the UK Premiere straight from Paris and your only opportunity to see the show in the UK outside of London.

Our commissioning work with our Triggered@Warwick programme continues, which both commissions and supports artists with time to develop creative ideas, the physical space to work in, production support and an audience to reflect on the work.

Thank you for your continuing support of Warwick Arts Centre.

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• Subscribers of 9 or 10 concerts from within the series who submit their forms no later than Monday 2 June 2014 have first refusal to retain the seats allocated to them for the 2013/14 concert series.

After Monday 2 June 2014 seats will be allocated on a first come first served based.

• Although we endeavour to allocate subscribers the seats which they have requested we cannot guarantee this for all bookers.

• Subscription tickets will be allocated from Monday 21 July 2014.

• We end our priority booking period on Monday 21 July 2014,

however, subscription forms can be received after this date.

• Subscription tickets will be posted to you after Monday 4 August 2014.

• Individual booking opens on Monday 11 August 2014.

• Any bookings by subscribers for subsequent concerts in the

2014/15 series are subject to the usual terms and conditions.

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All information correct at time of going to press May 2014.

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Regular bus services from Coventry, Leamington Spa and Kenilworth stop outside the Arts Centre.

Traveline: 0871 200 2233.

Our postcode for sat-navs is CV4 7AL

By Train Services run regularly from Birmingham, Leicester and London to Coventry and Coventry station is just a short taxi or bus ride away.

Please note, from Autumn 2014, routes onto campus will change due to major restructuring and roadworks on campus and Gibbet Hill during Summer 2014. Details of the new road map and improvements to access onto the University of Warwick campus will be sent to all bookers before the start of the 2014/15 Concert Series.

Car Parking

Seating Plan

Please always allow plenty of time for parking when you visit us. We have plenty of parking on campus, but to ensure you get into one of the closer car-parks we advise arriving at least 30 minutes before the start of the performance. After 6pm parking is FREE of charge across campus.

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Ensure your car parking place Visit the Mead Gallery – free of charge and open until 9pm Mon – Sat Enjoy a pre-concert meal in Le Gusta Oven & Bar or a drink or snack in the Café Bar or in the Theatre Bar Attend a pre-concert talk – a fantastic introduction to the evening ahead

Car parks 7 and 4

Access We have been working on improving access services: Increased number of blue badge holder spaces on campus. Please consider fellow visitors - any non blue badge holders parking in a disabled bay may be clamped or fined.

Parking Stewards positioned at key drop off points; our Stewards will either wait with you whilst your driver parks the car, or will accompany you to the venue and wait inside with you.

If you have mobility issues and require any assistance simply call Box Office one day in advance. We will arrange for one of our Stewards to bring a wheelchair to the car park and assist you to the Arts Centre.

For full access information visit our website or ask for a leaflet at Box Office. Though it is not essential, you are advised to book in advance so we can readily provide any assistance.

Disabled patrons may also bring a companion free of charge. Contact Box Office for details.

Spaces reserved in Car Parks 4 and 7.

Wheelchair access at ground level to Hall, Studio Theatre, Café Bar, Box Office, Cinema, Conference Room, Music Centre, Bookshop and Rise.

Lift access to Theatre, Theatre Bar, National Grid Room and Mead Gallery.

Guide dogs are welcomed and can be cared for during performances, by arrangement.

Receivers for our Sennheiser infra-red facility are freely available from Box Office.

These are the nearest car parks to the Arts Centre.

Car Park 7 uses an environmentally friendly token machine at all times, although parking is FREE after 6pm. Please be prepared that at the end of a busy night it can take some time to exit from the upper floors of Car Park 7.

Using tokens • As you enter Car Park 7 you will receive a token which you will need to validate at the pay station (located on the ground floor entrance on Car Park 7) •

You can validate your token anytime in the evening - on your way in, in the interval, or at the end of the performance (N.B. if you validate it on your way in after 6pm you will save yourself the potential queue at the end of the night)

• To validate your token, simply put it into the pay machine, and the screen will display £0.00 and your token will be returned to you. Keep it with you.

• Insert your token on exiting from the car park and the barrier will raise (if you find the barriers are already up, hand your token to a parking attendant)

Car parks 8 and 15 Toilet facilities accessible on all levels.

This brochure is also available in large print. Call 024 7652 4524

Car Park 8 is approx 7 minutes walk from the Arts Centre and Car Park 15 approx 10 minutes walk. Car Parks 8 and 15 do not use a token machine and have no exit barrier. If you don’t mind a slightly longer walk, they can be quicker to exit at the end of the night.

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CONCERT SERIES 2014 / 15

2014 Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra The HallĂŠ Armonico Consort

Tue 7 Oct Sat 8 Nov Sun 14 Dec

2015 Royal Northern Sinfonia Sat 24 Jan Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Wed 18 Feb European Union Chamber Orchestra Thu 26 Feb Philharmonia Orchestra Wed 11 Mar City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Fri 8 May Warsaw Philharmonic Fri 15 May Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Thu 21 May

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