Daniel
Lipton
Daniel Lipton is widely regarded as one of
today’s most exciting and creative conductors, having received
international acclaim for superb performances of operatic and
orchestral repertoire.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Perestroika, he was invited
to conduct the opening concert of Moscow’s First International
Opera Festival in 2005.He was conductor of the Zurich Opera for
3 years and has conducted at the Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam;
La Fenice, Venice; Teatro Regio, Parma; Teatro Comunale,
Florence and Bologna; Teatro Real, Madrid; the Paris Opera and
Le Chatelet; Nice Opera; Philharmonia and Sadler’s Wells,
London; Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Staatsoper Hamburg,
Cologne, Dusseldorf, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Nuremberg, and
Wiesbaden. He has been a guest conductor at the Deutsche Oper
Berlin for 10 years; and was chosen to conduct the world
premiere of G.C.Menotti’s Giorno da Nozze.
Daniel Lipton was recently appointed Artistic Director of the
European Classic Festival (Triennale) and the EurOrchester in
Germany. One of Europe’s leading opera magazines, Switzerland’s
Opernwelt, has awardedhim “best conductor of the year” for two
consecutiveyears, and the London magazine Operavoted him
“bestconductor ofVerdi.”Mr. Lipton had the honour of beingasked
to conduct Toscain Prague on the 100th anniversary of its
première.
In Canada Mr. Lipton has conducted the National Arts Centre
Orchestra in Ottawa, the Montreal Symphony, and numerous
productions for Opera Ontario.With the latter he was appointed
artistic director in 1986 and has made it into one of the most
important opera companies in Canada. Last October he conducted
La Bohème for Opéra de Québec.
We were privileged to have Mr. Lipton’s musical expertise during
the 2005 Montreal International Musical Competition (voice); we
are indeed pleased that he will return for the 2007 Competition.
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