Queen Máxima and Princess Beatrix to visit Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Klaus Mäkelä
Artistic partner and future chief conductor conducts Mozart's Requiem and works by Sibelius
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands and Her Royal Highness, Princess Beatrix will be visiting a concert given by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of its new artistic partner, Klaus Mäkelä, on Friday, 25 November. Queen Máxima is patron of the orchestra.
Mäkelä will conduct Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony, followed by Mozart’s Requiem featuring the Netherlands Chamber Choir, soprano Sabine Devieilhe, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Julian Prégardien, and baritone Benjamin Appl. These concerts mark the Concertgebouw Orchestra debuts of Devieilhe, Prégardien and Appl.
After the concert, Her Majesty and Her Royal Highness will meet Klaus Mäkelä for the first time.
Mäkelä will be conducting Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem on 23, 24 and 25 November at The Concertgebouw. On Saturday 26 November, he will conduct a concert in the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s successful Essentials series for those who have less experience with classical music. In this concert, Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony will be juxtaposed with the same composer’s famous tone poem, The Swan of Tuonela. An Essentials concert is shorter than a regular symphonic concert, has no intermission, and features a lively introduction by the well-known Flemish presenter Thomas Vanderveken.
Mäkelä will return to Amsterdam on 14 and 15 December for the third time this season.