Rafael Payare
In February 2020, Music Director Rafael Payare led the San Diego Symphony in a live performance of Shostakovich’s searing Eleventh Symphony, “The Year 1905.” Now that performance – their last concert together before the pandemic lockdowns – is due for release by Platoon on May 6. The album marks Platoon’s first title to feature an...
As Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare takes to the podium for several engagements this spring. Highlights include two performances with pianist Daniil Trifonov (April 20 & 21), two evenings of Bruckner 7 (May 10 & 11), a performance with Rose Naggar-Tremblay, mezzo-soprano and winner of the 2021 OSM Competition (May...
On April 2, Payare makes his debut at Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Opera, where he takes the podium for a six-performance run of Puccini’s Tosca. Maria Pia Piscitelli and Ann Petersen share the title role, opposite Niels Jørgen Riis (Cavaradossi) and Jens Søndergaard and Sebastian Cantana (Scarpia) in a revival of Peter Langdal’s classic staging. Performances run...
On February 17, Rafael Payare makes his first appearance with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, launching a Scandinavian tour highlighted by the ensemble’s Norwegian debut. At concerts in Bergen, Norway (Feb 17), Oslo (Feb 19) and Aalborg, Denmark (Feb 20), he conducts the overture to Mozart’s Don Giovanni followed by Schumann’s Violin Concerto, with Gramophone...
