Debuts

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Upcoming debut at San Francisco Opera conducting Turandot

KATINK June 22, 2017 Concerts, Debuts

In the 2017–18 season, Christopher Franklin will make his conducting debut with the San Francisco Opera in Puccini’s Turandot. A co-production with the Lyric Opera of …

Debut with the London Philharmonic in Spain

Christopher Franklin January 22, 2016 Concerts, Debuts

As part of the International Music Festival of the Canary Islands, Christopher made his debut this month with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The programme included works …

Debut at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw

KATINK April 25, 2015 Concerts, Debuts

Christopher will make his debut in May in Amsterdam’s celebrated Concertgebouw, performing with “Dream Duo” tenor Juan Diego Flórez, soprano Pretty Yende and the Gelders Orkest. …

Debut at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceo

KATINK March 23, 2015 Debuts, Opera

In February 2016 Christopher will make his debut at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceo with Rossini’s Otello. With Gregory Kunde in the title role, Christopher will …

“…Christopher Franklin led a revelatory reading of the work…he was alive to the lyricism in the piece yet also brought out its angularity, precisely that simmering violence that lays beneath the surface. There was a rhythmic incisiveness to his reading that I found utterly compelling….he took the artistry to the next level…the sheer precision that the orchestra brought to even the most complicated syncopated writing was absolutely staggering….a thrilling, moving though-provoking piece of music theatre….well cast, marvelously conducted….this was an evening that showed this estimable theatre at its very best.”

Peter Grimes at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, February, 2018