Season spotlight: Teatro Colón residency

This summer the West-Eastern Divan makes a highly anticipated return to the Teatro Colón for their annual workshop and a

featuring symphonic, operatic, and chamber performances, as well as a public symposium. The esteemed Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich guests with the Orchestra this summer, performing in the Divan’s

on August 3, 2014 in Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, led by the ensemble's co-founder Daniel Barenboim. Argerich and Barenboim share the stage for a

on August 5 with a program that comprises Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, Schubert’s Variations on an Original Theme, and Stravinsky’s

for four-hand piano. Argerich joins Barenboim and members of the West-Eastern Divan for a unique concert on

in a program of Stravinsky’s

and Saint-Saëns’s

.

During the West-Eastern Divan’s Buenos Aires residency, the orchestra gives the world premieres of two compositions by Syrian-born composer Kareem Roustom and Israeli composer Ayal Adler.

Roustom’s

for orchestra and Adler’s new work receive their first performances

in a program that features Mozart’s Overture to

and Ravel’s

,

,

, and

. A highlight of the West-Eastern Divan’s summer tour will be

. In Buenos Aires, the orchestra, led by Barenboim, perform the opera’s Prelude, Second Act, and

in concert with cast of operatic luminaries who include Peter Seiffert, Waltraud Meier, Ekaterina Gubanova, and René Pape. Performances take place August 4, 6, 10 and 12. From Argentina, the West-Eastern Divan continue their summer performances in Europe at the

(August 17 & 18), and

(August 21 & 22), before returning to the

for their annual open-air concert (August 24).

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