High Life

114 品 澳 门乐团的乐季开幕及闭幕音乐会，多为令人翘首以待的重头戏，即将来临 的2018-19乐季亦不例外。北爱尔兰著名钢琴大师兼指挥巴瑞·道格拉斯 将为新乐季拉开帷幕，率先演绎谢尔盖·拉赫玛尼诺夫的《升F 小调第一钢琴协 奏曲，第一号作品》及尼古拉·里姆斯基- 科萨科夫的《天方夜谭，第三十五号 作品》。前者旋律优美但难度甚高，后者则天马行空且激情洋溢，同为俄罗斯浪 漫时期的佳作，以浓墨重彩的方式展现俄国情感。 踏入金秋，澳门乐团将参与第三十二届澳门国际音乐节两大重点节目。其 一是意大利歌剧作曲家葛塔诺·多尼采蒂成名前的杰作——两幕喜歌剧《爱情 灵药》。多尼采蒂乃十九世界上半叶美声时期的三巨头之一，与常青树焦阿基 诺·罗西尼和天不假年的温琴佐·贝利尼齐名。是次演出由苏黎世歌剧院制作， 并由擅长古典及浪漫时期作品的奥地利大师拉尔夫·威克特指挥，无疑是澳门乃 至整个珠三角地区本年最受瞩目的歌剧之一。 同样引人注目的，是澳门乐团将与上海爱乐乐团联合演奏安东·布鲁克纳的 代表作——《C 小调第8交响曲，WAB 108》。此巨作篇幅之长可比瓦格纳， 阵容之庞大则有如马勒，系奥匈帝国忠实臣民布鲁克纳献给「国父」兼皇帝弗朗 茨·约瑟夫一世的音乐礼赞，于1892年在维也纳音乐协会大楼首演，当年的指 挥汉斯·里希特曾负责《尼伯龙根的指环》四部曲在德国拜罗伊特节日剧院的完 整首演。对于喜欢大型管弦乐的乐迷而言，这可是弥足珍贵的机会。 T he Macao Orchestra’s season-opening and- closing concerts rarely disappoint and the forthcoming 2018-19 Concert Season is no exception. The firing pistol for the new season comes in the form of a grand piano, caressed by renowned pianist-conductor Barry Douglas. He will interpret Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.1 in F sharp minor, Op.1 and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Op.35 , two masterpieces characteristic of the Russian Romantic era – emotive and expressive in equal measure. Come autumn, the Macao Orchestra will participate in two major performances of the 32nd Macao International Music Festival. The first is L’elisir d’amore , a melodramma giocoso in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, one of the triumvirs of the bel canto era, alongside Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini. Conducted by Austrian maestro Ralf Weikert and produced by Opernhaus Zürich, this production is set to be one of the highlights in the operatic calendar of not just Macau, but the entire Pearl River Delta. No less imposing is the joint performance of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No.8 in Cminor,WAB 108 by the Shanghai Philharmonic andMacao Orchestras. Wagnerian in length and Mahlerian in orchestration, Bruckner’s magnum opus was dedicated to Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I and premiered under the baton of Hans Richter at the Wiener Musikverein in 1892. This is the one concert that devotees of large-scale orchestral works must not miss.