Monday (2/6) on the Los Angeles Times blog Culture Monster, Reed Johnson writes, “After sating itself with super-sized helpings of Gustav Mahler this winter, the Los Angeles Philharmonic won’t be curbing its appetite for large-scale undertakings next year. The Phil’s 2012-13 season, which will be officially announced later Monday, is a combination of large- and medium-size projects (some new, some evolving from its current season), along with the return of several familiar faces (Esa-Pekka Salonen, Zubin Mehta). And although there’ll be nothing like this season’s nine-course banquet of Mahler symphonies, the composer’s Symphony No. 5 will be performed in October under guest conductor Daniel Harding. The season also will have a distinctly operatic flavor, featuring several staged or semi-staged works. They include the second of a planned trilogy of Mozart/Da Ponte operas, The Marriage of Figaro, conducted by the Phil’s music director, Gustavo Dudamel, with sets designed by … architect Jean Nouvel and costumes by couturier Azzadine Alaia.” Another production “will be the March 7, 2013, debut of the staged version of John Adams’ oratorio, ‘The Gospel According to the Other Mary.’ … On the non-classical programming side, a Phil-commissioned world premiere of a new jazz work by Wayne Shorter will be performed by the Wayne Shorter Quartet, accompanied by the Phil and Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding.”
Posted February 8, 2012
