Raphael Pichon © Julia Wesely
Raphaël Pichon
»A witty program is half the battle«, one would think, or at least that's what the French orchestra director Raphael Pichon, whose career began as a countertenor and who is now a sought-after conductor, thinks. The Wiener Konzerthaus is dedicating a three-part solo show to Raphael Pichon, which shows the founder and artistic director of the original sound ensemble Pygmalion above all as someone who leaves nothing to chance when putting together a program: For example, when he condenses excerpts from Ambroise Thomas' romantic opera »Hamlet« with Faure's Requiem into a »Requiem for Ophelia« or explores the affinity between Schubert's »Unfinished« and Mendelssohn's »Scottish«. Finally, Bach's highly dramatic St. John Passion will show Pichon's Pygmalion in the brightest spotlight.