ORCHESTRE DE PARIS ANNOUNCES 2022/23 SEASON

For his second season as Music Director of the Orchestra de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä has chosen to focus on today’s composers: Pascal Dusapin, Betsy Jolas, Jimmy López Bellido, Magnus Lindberg and Kaija Saariaho, the latter featured with three different works. There is also a focus on the Ballets Russes, with three key Diaghilev scores: Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe, Stravinsky’s The Firebird and Rite of Spring. Other highlights include Berlioz Symphony Fantastique, Shostakovich Symphony No. 7, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Mahler Symphony No. 2 and Richard Strauss Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

SEPTEMBER 8 & 9
Kaija Saariaho: Asteroid 4179 : Toutatis
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
Jimmy López Bellido: New work (premiere)
Pascal Dusapin: A Linea (premiere)
Alexander Scriabin: Poème de l’extase

SEPTEMBER 21 & 22
Claude Debussy: Jeux
Ernest Bloch: Schelomo
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird
Soloist: Gautier Capuçon

OCTOBER 5 & 6
Kaija Saariaho: Vista
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Soloist: Alice Sara Ott

NOVEMBER 30 & DECEMBER 1
Betsy Jolas: new work (premiere)
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2  “Resurrection”
Soloists: Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (mezzo-soprano)

APRIL 13 & 14 
Sergei: Prokofiev: Scythian Suite
Magnus Lindberg: Piano Concerto
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique”
Soloist: Yuja Wang

MAY 10 & 11
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad”
Soloist: Beatrice Rana

MAY 30 & 31
Dmitri Shostakovich: Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2
William Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast
Soloists: Sol Gabetta (cello), Sir Willard White (bass-baritone)