DAVID STERN is much admired in the worlds of music and opera as an exceptional conductor, a creator of inspiring original projects, an educator of the singers of tomorrow and an outstanding musician. His multi-faceted career has three main pillars: symphonic music, opera, and education.

As orchestral conductor, Stern has led recent performances with the Royal Danish Opera Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra Basel and the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a regular guest of the NDR Radiophilharmonie (Hannover) with whom he recorded rare words by Florian Leopold Gassman.

In China, he frequently conducts the country’s three principal orchestras: the Shanghai Symphony, the China Philharmonic in Beijing, and the Guangzhou Symphony. In cooperation with the Shanghai Symphony Association, he is also the jury co-chair of the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition.

The coming seasons include appearances with the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, the Sydney Symphony, the Kansai Symphony Orchestra in Osaka, the Marseille Opera Orchestra and the Orchestre de Bretagne. He was the chief conductor of the Philharmonie Südwestphalen from 1995 to 1998. His orchestral recordings include French Romantic Cantatas with Karine Deshayes and the Opera Fuoco Orchestra, John Field piano concertos with Concerto Köln and Andreas Staier, as well as works by Albert Roussel with cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and Pianist Alexandre Tharaud.

David Stern is currently chief conductor of the Palm Beach Opera, a position he has held since 2015. He is the former music director of the Israel Opera and of the Theater St. Gallen (Switzerland), and has worked with the Opera de Lyon, the English National Opera, the Boston Lyric Opera and the operas of Metz and Massy in France, among others. This season includes productions of Weill’s Lady in the Dark at the Opera Zuid in Maastricht and Handel’s Ariodante with the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He will also conduct two of the leading tenors of today, Michael Spyres and Laurence Brownlee at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with the Opera Fuoco Orchestra. Stern has enjoyed collaborations with international stage directors including David Alden, Mariame Clément, Elsa Rooke, Stéphane Braunschweig, Francisco Negrin, Robin Guarino, Sam Helfrich, Waut Koeken, Jakob Peters-Messer and Aron Stiehl, among many others. With Yoshi Oïda, he created iconic settings of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Britten’s Curlew River for the Théâtre de la Ville and the Bouffes du Nord theaters in Paris.

In the field of special projects and education, he founded Opera Fuoco in 2003 as a platform for young professional singers in France, combining both a young artist program and a period-instrument orchestra under the banner of his company, which produces concertante, semi-staged and fully staged productions both nationally and internationally. David Stern and Opera Fuoco have been regularly invited to the Paris Philharmonie, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees, as well as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Luzern Festival, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Shanghai Symphony hall.

A defining moment was his 2019 performance of Bach’s B-minor Mass in Shanghai, Paris and at the Leipzig Bachfest with the Tölzer Knabenchor, Opera Fuoco Orchestra, Andreas Scholl and Laurent Naouri as well as members of Opera Fuoco’s Young Artists Program. The concert was featured in a documentary entitled “Grasping and understanding the b minor Mass”.

Stern’s strong interest in working with and developing young voices grew out of the academy he launched with Stéphane Lissner at the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival in 1998, the Académie International d’Art Lyrique. He has regular engagements with young artists’ programs in Sweden, China and the United States, including productions with the opera programs of the Juilliard School in 2016 and the Curtis Institute in 2023.

David Stern’s repertoire ranges from the mainstream to the eclectic. His opera recordings include Giovanni Simone Mayr’s L‘amor conjugale and Medea in Corinto, Johann Christian Bach’s Zanaïda, Handel’s Semele and Jephtha with Opera Fuoco. His future plans include many exciting projects around the world, from baroque opera training in Nanjing to projects with Opera Fuoco, including Le Nozze di Figaro, La Bohème, Così fan tutte, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and Mayr’s L’amor conjugale at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien.

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OPER / OPERETTE / MUSICAL

JC Bach - Zanaida

Nicolas Bacri - Cosi Fanciulli (World Premiere)

Bardanashvili - A Journey to the End of the Millenium

Berg - Wozzeck
Berg - Lulu

Berlioz - La Damnation of Faust

Bernstein - West Side Story
Bernstein - Candide

Bizet - Carmen

Britten - Curlew River
Britten - The Turn of the Screw
Britten - Peter Grimes

Cherubini - Medea

Dauvergne - Polyxene

Donizetti - Rita
Donizetti - Don Pasquale
Donizetti - L´Elisir d’amore

Fenelon - Philippe Le Chevalier Imaginaire

Gershwin - Porgy and Bess

Gilbert and Sullivan - The Mikado
Gilbert and Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance

Gluck -  Orfeo ed Euridice
Gluck - Iphigenie en Tauride

Gounod - Faust

Haendel - Hercules
Haendel - Giulio Cesare
Haendel - Alcina
Haendel - Semele
Haendel - Jephtha
Haendel - Esther
Haendel - Serse

Hasse - Marc Antonio e Cleopatra

Haydn - Il Mondo della Luna

Korngold - Stumme Serenade

Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci

Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana

Massenet - Werther
Massenet - Manon

Mayr - Medea in Corinto
Mayr -  L´Amor Conjugale

Ben Moore - Enemies, a love story (world premiere)

Moussorgsky - Boris Godunov

Mozart - Mitridate
Mozart -  Idomeneo
Mozart - La Finta Giardiniera
Mozart - Der Schauspieldirektor
Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Mozart - Cosi fan Tutte
Mozart - Le Nozze de Figaro
Mozart - Don Giovanni
Mozart -Die Zauberflöte

Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffman
Offenbach - L’Ile de Tulipatan

Porter/Cole - Kiss me Kate

Poulenc - Les Mammelles de Tirésias

Pucinni - Gianni Schicchi
Puccini - Il Tabarro
Puccini -  Suor Angelica
Puccini -  Madama Butterfly
Puccini - Tosca
Puccini - La Bohème
Puccini - Turandot
Puccini - La Rondine

Purcell - Dido and Aeneas
Purcell - The Fairy Queen

Ravel - L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

Rossini - Il Barbiere de Siviglia

Rumshinsky - Goldene Kale

Salieri - Prima la Musica

Sandström - Rokokomaskineriet (world premiere)

Schoenberg - Moses and Aaron
Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire

Shohat  - The Child Dreams (world premiere)

Soler, Martin Y - L´Arbore di Diana

Strauß, J - Die Fledermaus

Strauss, R - Capriccio
Strauss, R. - Salome
Strauss, R. - Arabella
Strauss, R. - Der Rosenkavalier
Strauss, R. - Ariadne auf Naxos

Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
Stravinsky - Le Rossignol

Telemann - Damon
Telemann - Richardus
Telemann - Orpheus

Verdi - Gerusalemme
Verdi - La Traviata
Verdi - Macbeth
Verdi - Don Carlos
Verdi - Il Trovatore

Wagner - Die Walkyre

Weill - Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagony
Weill - Lady in the Dark

ORCHESTRAL

Bach, J.S.                         

Christmas Oratorio
Double Concerto
Harpsichord Concerto in g minor
Violin Concerto in d minor
Violin Concerto in E major
Concerto for Oboe d'Amore
Orchestral suite #1 in C
Orchestral suite #2 in b
Orchestral suite #3 in D
Orchestral suite #4 in D
Brandenburg concerti #1, #2, 3, #4
Cantatas: BWV#1,4,12, 29,79,142, 201
Missa Brevis in G Mass in b minor
Magnificat Tilger, Höchste, Meine Sünden
Bach/Pergolesi Stabat Mater

Barber

First Essay
Adagio For Strings
Capricorn Concerto

Bartok

Divertimento for String Orchestra
Rumanian Dances
Concerto for Orchestra
Concerto for viola
Concerto #2 for violin

Beethoven

Symphonies #1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Piano Concerto #1,2,3,4,5
Violin concerto
Triple Concerto
Romance in F,G for violin
Egmont Overture
Coriolanus Overture
Complete Egmont Music
Choral Fantasy
Mass in C
Prometheus Music
Coriolanus Overture

Benoit

Flute Concerto

Berg
Sieben Früher Lieder
Kammerkonzert
Lyric Suite

Berger,
Jonathan Lyuba

Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique
Roman Carnival Overture
Les Nuits d’Eté
La mort de Cleopatre

Bernstein
Serenade

Bloch
Sacred Service
Jewish Life
Nigun

Boisselot
Velleda Cantata

Brahms
Symphonies #1,2,3,4
A German Requiem
Piano Concerto #1,#2
Violin Concerto
Double Concerto for violin and cello
Academic Festival Overture
Tragic Overture
Motets: op 74#1,2
Variations on a theme by Haydn
Serenade op.11
Serenade op.16
Alto Rhapsody

Britten
Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge
Four Sea Interludes
Bruch Violin Concerto g minor
Romance for Viola

Bruckner
Te Deum

Busoni
Turandot Suite

Carter
Pastoral for English Horn

Chabrier
Espana

Chausson
Poème

Chavez
Toccata for Orchestra

Chopin
Polonaise Brilliante

Clement, Franz
Violin Concerto in D

Colsanti
Cello Concerto

Copland
Appalachian Spring
Clarinet Concerto
Danzon Cubano
Fanfare For the Common Man
Rodeo

Corelli
Concerto grosso op.6, #8

Corigliano
Elegy

Debussy
La Mer
Afternoon of a faun

Dvorak
Concerto for cello
Symphony #6,7,8,9
Legends
Slavonic Danses
String Serenade
Romance for Violin

De Falla
Suite from the Three Cornered Hat
Suite from La Vida Breve
El Amor Brujo

Dittersdorf
Concerto for Double Bass

Dutilleux
Violin Concerto Symphony #2

Elgar
Enigma Variations
Cello Concerto
Elegy for strings

Enescu
2 Intermezzi for strings

Fauré
Pelleas and Melisande
Pavane

Field
Piano concerto in Eb
Piano Concerto in Ab

Gade
Ossian Overture

Gassman
Various arias from Opera Seria, and other works

Glazunov
Fest Overture

Goldschimdt
Violin Concerto

Grieg
Piano Concerto
Holberg Suite
2 Elegiac Melodies for string orchestra

Griffes
The White Peacock

Handel
Concerto Grosso op.6 #4
Water Music

Hartmann
Symphony #1

Hasse
Scena de Berenice
Laudate Pueri
La Contadina

Haydn
Symphony #32, 44, 85, 92, 99, 101, 103, 104
Sinfonia Concertante
Concertos for cello #1,2
The Creation
Berenice Cantata
Ariadne auf Naxos cantata

Michael Haydn
Missa Sancti Aloysii

Henze
In Memoriam: Die Weisse Rose

Herold
Arianne Cantata

Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis
Six Chansons for a capella Chorus
Mathis der Maler

Holliger
Eisblumen

Hummel
Trumpet Concerto

Ibert
Saxophone concerto

Ives

Gong on the Hook and Ladder
Country Band March
Three Places in New England

Jolivet
Suite for flute and percussion

Josquin dez-Pres
Lament on the death of Ockegehm

Kiel, Friedrich
Piano Concerto

Kirchner
Double concerto for violin and cello

Kodaly
Galanta Dances

Kraus Osman Overture

Liszt
Les Preludes
Totentanz

Lutoslawski
Concerto for Orchestra

Machaut
Messe de Notre Dame

Mahler
Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen
Symphony #1,3,4,5
Das Lied von der Erde

John Marsh
Symphony #7

Marianna Martines
Berenice Cantata

Martinu
Concerto da Camera for cello and orchestra

Mazzoni
Berenice Cantata

Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Violin concerto in e minor
String symphony in b minor
String Symphony #9
Symphony #1,2,3,4,5
Hebrides Overture
Schöne Melusine Overture
Piano Concerto in g minor

Moussorgsky/Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition

Mozart
Adagio and Rondo for violin
Exsultate Jubilate
Symphonies #29,33,34,35,36,39,40,41
Flute concerto in G
Flute and Harp concerto
Piano concerto in d
Violin concerti in D, A, G
Overtures: Figaro, Impressario, Cosi fan Tutte, La Clemenza
Wind serenade in c
Posthorn Serenade
Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola
Concert Arias: "Per questa bella Mano", "Misera, dove son", "Ah! t'invola", "Vado ma dove"
Mass in c minor
Requiem
Most of the Piano concertos

Nicolai
Symphony in d minor
Fest Overture
Weihnachtsoverture Theme and Variations on Norma for piano and orchestra

Nielsen
Flute Concerto

Offenbach
Cello Concerto

Paer
Overture Leonore

Piazzolla
Zero Hour

Poulenc
Aubade

Prokofiev
Alexander Nevsky
Symphony #6,7
Violin Concerto #2
Peter and the Wolf
Piano Concerto #3

Puccini
I Crisantemi

Radzynski
Mizmorim
Cello Concerto
Encounters
Time’s Other Beat

Raff
Concerto Overture

Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Tzigane
Piano concerto in G
Concerto for piano left hand
Concerto for Piano in G
Ma Mère l’Oie
La Valse
Bolero
Daphnis and Chloé

Rebel
Les Elements

Reger
Mozart Variations

Rossini
Overtures to "Italian in Algiers", "Semiramide","La Scala di Seta"
Sonata #1 for string orchestra

Rott
Symphony in E

Roussel
Concerto for Orchestra
Petite Suite
Marchand de Sable
Cello Concertino
Piano Concerto
Symphony #3

Ruggles
Men and Mountains

Sarasate
Ziegeunerweise
Carmen Fantasy

Schmitt, Florent
La Tragédie de Salomé

Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht
Chamber Symphony #1 op 9

Brahms
Piano Quartet for orchestra
Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
Andante Moderato from String Serenade

Schubert
Symphonies in c minor, b minor, C Major (#8)
Masses in G, Eb

Schumann, R
Manfred Overture
Cello concerto
Piano Concerto
Violin Concerto
Fantasy
Introduction and Allegro
Symphony 1,2,3,4

Shostakovich
Concerto #1 for cello
Symphony #5, #10, #14

Sibelius
Swan of Tuonela Concerto for violin Symphony #2
Finlandia
Valse Triste

Strauß, R
Rosenkavalier Suite
Don Juan
Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Don Quixotte
Horn Concerto #1
Oboe Concerto
Duet Concertino
Violin Concerto

Stravinsky
Death Song
Apollon Musagete
Firebird
Rossignol Suite
Violin Concerto
Symphony in C Concerto in D
Dumbarton Oaks

Takemitsu
Requiem
Rain Falling

Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto
Symphony #1
Symphony #4
Serenade for strings
Rococco Variations

Telemann
Don Quixote Suite
Flute suite a minor
Ino Cantata
Trauer Ode
Tag des Gerichts
Wassermusik
Tafelmusik

Tenzer, Michael
Daya Sources of the Current

Verdi
Overture to I Vespri Sicilliani

Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasilieras #1

Vivaldi
Concerto for guitar
Concerto for 4 violins
Concerto for 2 trumpets
Four Seasons

Wagner
C Major Symphony
Siegfried Idyll
Overture Rienzi
Overture Flying Dutchman
Prelude Lohengrin
Wesendonck Lieder
Weber Overture to Euryanthe
Overture to Oberon
Clarinet concerto #1 and#2 Symphony #1, 2

Webern
Symphony opus 21
Im Sommerwind

Wiesenberg
Concerto for violin and klezmer violi

Wyner
Epilogue