To close its 2022/2023 season, the Toulon Opera is offering a magnificent WEST SIDE STORY concert on Friday June 16, 2023 at 8 p.m.
The Toulon Opera Orchestra will be conducted by Franco-Swiss conductor Joseph Bastian. Young violinist Alena Baeva will perform Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto. Also on the program is one of the most performed contemporary works, Blue Cathedral by Jennifer Higdon. This evening will end in style with Symphonic Dances from Leonard Bernstein’s masterpiece, West Side Story.
The Opera will then close its doors for ambitious restoration work. It is therefore “outside the walls” that the 2023/2024 season will take place.
Alena Baeva violin
Alena Baeva began playing the violin at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. She then trained in France with Mstislav Rostropovitch, in Switzerland with Seiji Ozawa, in Israel with Shlomo Mintz at the Keshet Eilon Music Center and in Paris with Boris Garlitsky. At 16, she won the grand prize at the International Henryk-Wieniawski Competition as well as the prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work.
She also won the grand prize and a special prize at the Nicolò-Paganini International Competition in Moscow (2004), and the gold medal and audience prize at the Sendai International Competition (2007). She has collaborated with Paavo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Teodor Currentzis, Valery Gergiev, Andreï Boreïko, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowski, Tomáš Netopil and Mikhaïl Pletnev.
She has also developed musical partnerships with young conductors such as Alpesh Chauhan, Robert Trevino and Duncan Ward. Chamber music occupies a special place in his musical life. Her stage partners include Martha Argerich, Yuri Bachmet, Steven Isserlis, Daishin Kashimoto, Mischa Maisky, Lawrence Power, Julian Steckel, Yeol Eum Son and the Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko.
His repertoire includes more than forty concertos, sometimes little-known works. In particular, she defends composers such as Grayna Bacewicz, Faradzh Karaev and Mieczysaw Karowicz. She has a long-standing relationship with the 18th Century Orchestra, performing and recording a varied repertoire on period instruments.
She has been invited by the Frankfurt Opera, the Estonian Festival Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne, the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich and the Tonkünstler Orchestra (Vienna), the Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the NHK Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Italian Switzerland, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Spanish Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London and the National Orchestra of Russia. Alena Baeva plays on the Guarneri del Gesù “ex-William Kroll” of 1738 generously loaned by an anonymous patron, with the kind assistance of J&A Beares
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