26 November 2018
Newsdesk
Giles Cooper Entertainment has announced that Kenwood House, overlooking Hampstead Heath in North London, will host a stellar line-up of live music concerts in summer 2019 within the splendour of its breath-taking gardens.
The Heritage Live Concert Series will take place across the weekend of the 14th– 16th June bringing the best in live music to the most beautiful of outdoor settings at one of the capital’s most significant historic properties.
The first concert announced at Kenwood House is a London exclusive - legendary tenor José Carreras. The show will be extra special as José Carreras says goodbye to London as part of his farewell tour.
An iconic figure, José Carreras has sung over 60 roles from operas by Verdi and Puccini and created memorable productions including the famed Franco Zeffirelli production of La Bohèmeat the Metropolitan Opera.
Alongside a discography that includes over 160 recordings that range across classical and popular music, earning him several Gold and Platinum discs with over 80 million records sold in total, Carreras is one of the most accomplished tenors in history.
Starting his career in 1970 in the Gran Teatre del Liceu in his native Barcelona with Nabucco and Lucrezia Borgia, his meteoric musical career resulted in early debuts at the world’s most prestigious opera stages - The Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London and the Vienna State Opera.
Carreras has also performed in several operatic movies and has won awards including Grammys, BRITs, and Olivier Awards. For millions, he is also revered for his role as one of the legendary Three Tenors, alongside Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. The Three Tenors’ concerts created an immense impact on the world of Opera and wider popular culture, as the trio performed to over 2 billion people worldwide.
José Carreras will perform at Kenwood House with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, who will be conducted by David Giménez, who has been Maestro Carreras conductor for 25 years.
Since making his debut with the Hannover NDR Orchestra in 1994, he has appeared worldwide, leading the most prominent orchestras and soloists in venues like the Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Salle Pleyel, Vienna Konzerthaus, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall.
During his career, David Giménez has conducted orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Philharmonia, Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre de Paris and Filarmonica della Scala. He has also appeared with soloists such as Yoyo Ma and Antonio Meneses.
Carreras will also be joined by rising star Christina Johnston. A prodigious talent, coloratura soprano Christina Johnston has been performing worldwide since she made her operatic debut in 2012 as Die Königin der Nacht Die Zauberflöte with the Prague State Opera and, soon afterwards as Adele Die Fledermaus at the same theatre.
Christina has sung as Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the opera house in Kazan, Russia, and as Zerlina inDon Giovanni at the Estates Theatre in Prague, as well as touring productions of Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Don Giovanni across Germany and Austria.
She has also performed for various Heads of State and earlier this year was nominated for a Classical BRIT Award.
