Return to Opèra Royale de Wallonie in Liege for Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Return to Opèra Royale de Wallonie in Liege, Belgium with a new production of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. Stage direction Arnaud Bernad. Beginning April 11, 2023.
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Return to Ópera de Tenerife for a production of Verdi’s Attila.
Christopher will return to the Auditorio de Tenerife built by famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife in a production by Italian director Andrea De Rosa. Performances run November 23-27, 2021.
Debut at New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan
November 29, 2020 Christopher makes his New National Theatre debut in Japan, conducting the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in a Heinz Zednik production of Johann Strauss II “Die Fledermaus”. Performances in Tokyo from Nov. 29 – Dec. 6, 2020 and in Sapporo through Dec. 15, 2020.
Yale University
back in the US with a wonderful new production at Yale Opera of Daniel Catan’s Florencia en al Amazonas….performances February 14,15,16 at the historic Schubert Theatre in New Haven, CT.
Return to San Francisco Opera with Hansel und Gretel
In October of 2019, Christopher returns to the War Memorial Opera House after a successful debut with Turandot two seasons ago, and a rewarding concert with the Adler Fellows and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra last December. Performances of Humperdink’s Hansel und Gretel run from November 15- December 7th, 2019.
Return to Palau de les Arts with Peter Grimes
In February 2018, Christopher will return to Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia to conduct five performances of Peter Grimes. Stage director Willy Decker’s ground-breaking version of Peter Grimes (created for La Monnaie in 1994) will take place on 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 February 2018. MORE INFORMATION/BUY TICKETS
Upcoming debut at San Francisco Opera conducting Turandot
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 Chicago, Turnadot will be directed by Garnett Bruce and include Swedish soprano Nine Stemme in the title role, Leah Crocetto as Liù, and Brian Jagde as Calaf. David Hockney’s creations for Turandot debuted in San Francisco in 1993, and will be restaged for the 2017 production. Performances of Turandot at the San Francisco Opera include 18, 25, 28 November, and 3, 6, 9 December 2017.
Debut with the London Philharmonic in Spain
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 by Mozart, Gounod, Verdi and Donizetti, and was performed in Las Palmas (January 8th) and Tenerife (January 11th).
Return to Teatro San Carlo in Napoli
Christopher returns to the fabulous acoustics of the Teatro San Carlo in Napoli for an historic staging of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale by Roberto de Simone to close the 2015 edition of the San Carlo Opera Festival. A few weeks later Christopher will travel to Bergamo (Donizetti’s birthplace) for the Donizetti Festival, conducting Don Pasquale in a new production by Andrea Cigni.
Debut at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw
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. BUY TICKETS MORE INFORMATION The tenor and conductor have toured throughout Europe and America since 2005, garnering international critical acclaim for their performances. “…accompanying tenor Juan Diego Florez was Christopher Franklin at the helm of the Deutsche Kammerakademie. He does so with extreme attention to the needs of his soloist, but bringing out the exuberant spirit in his orchestral pieces- especially in the Ouverture to Zampa by Ferdinand Herold- showing him to be a… Read More »Debut at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw