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HEMU Orchestra
Under the baton of such international figures as Ton Koopman, Jesús López Cobos, Ralph Weikert, Christian Zacharias, Bertrand de Billy, Simone Young, Benjamin Levy, Claire Gibault, Joshua Weilerstein and Kristiina Poska, the HEMU Orchestra has embraced a repertoire spanning nearly four centuries of musical creation, from 1650 to the present day.
It has performed Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and the Fifth Symphonies of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Gustav Mahler, as well as premiering a work by Caroline Charrière, hosting 100% Gershwin and Michel Legrand evenings, and taking part in several oratorio programmes with the HEMU Vocalists, all of which have been recorded.
Thanks to its close collaboration with the Orchestre du Sinfonietta de Lausanne since 2021 and with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (OCL) since 2007, the orchestra has the opportunity to perform symphonies by Anton Bruckner, as well as works such as La Mer by Claude Debussy, La Valse by Maurice Ravel, the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorák and The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, on the stage of the salle Métropole in Lausanne.
The HEMU Orchestra has also made a name for itself on the opera stage, taking part in such notable productions as Arthur Honegger's Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Marriage of Figaro and Mozart's Così Fan Tutte. He is a regular guest on prestigious stages such as the Opéra de Lausanne, the Crochetan in Monthey, the Théâtre Équilibre in Fribourg, the Rosey Concert Hall in Rolle, the Auditorium Stravinski in Montreux and the Théâtre du Jorat in Mézières, and maintains a fruitful collaboration with the NOF - Nouvel Opéra Fribourg.
Musical Direction: Silvina Peruglia
Stage Direction: Robert Sandoz
Soloists, Choir, and Orchestra of HEMU
Co-production with Théâtre Equilibre, NOF Fribourg, Opéra de Lausanne, February and April 2024
Artistic director: Yvan Cassar
As part of the Montreux Cultural Season
Auditorium Stravinski, Montreux, March 2023