Verbier 2015: Joyce DiDonato and EsaPekka Salonen

Verbier Festival Orchestra

Subscribe now to watch

Esa-Pekka Salonen and Joyce DiDonato opened the Verbier Festival 2015 with the Verbier Festival Orchestra at the famous Salle des Combins. The prominent conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen (composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic) along with the huge opera star and performer (also a Metropolitan Opera regular), the American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, turned the opening of the 2015 Verbier Festival into a magnificent event.

Cast & Crew

Joyce DiDonato (Voice), (Conductor), (Director)

Recommendations

★★★★★ ''Singular adventures for a new era.'' - The Arts Desk Sir Antonio Pappano leads the LSO in a thrilling concert featuring Sibelius' ''Symphony No,1'' and a kaleidoscopic new work.

Pappano Conducts Sibelius

London Symphony Orchestra

Music

Witness the spectacle and power of Carreras, Domingo, and Pavarotti in a concert that brought opera to the masses on a starlit night in Rome.

The Three Tenors - The Birth of a Legend

Music

Fiery chariots, towering voices; Sir Antonio Pappano, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Chorus join forces for Mendelssohn’s monumental oratorio, ''Elijah.''

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts Mendelssohn's Elijah

London Symphony Orchestra

Music

Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim tackles the so-called 'New Testament' of music, Ludwig van Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas.

Daniel Barenboim - Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas

Collections

Take a front row seat as the "King of the High Cs" Luciano Pavarotti performs “Nessun Dorma” for over 500,000 people in New York's Central Park.

Pavarotti: Live in Central Park

New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Opera

Join an extraordinary cast at the Tanglewood Music Festival as they celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday.

Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Music