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Aix-en-ProvenceDie Frau ohne SchattenNew production

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Strauss R.: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Klaus Mäkelä; Barrie Kosky; Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; Michael Levine; Victoria Behr; Franck Evin; Orchestre de Paris

Aix-en-ProvenceDuke Bluebeard's CastleConcert performance

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Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Klaus Mäkelä; Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; Orchestre de Paris; Gerald Finley; Irene Roberts

ParisOrchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä -
Mahler 3

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Mahler: Symphony no. 3 in D minor
Orchestre de Paris; Klaus Mäkelä; Wiebke Lehmkuhl; Chœur de femmes de l'Orchestre de Paris; Chœur de jeunes de l'Orchestre de Paris; Chœur d'enfants de l'Orchestre de Paris

ParisOrchestre de Paris / Robin Ticciati /
Seong-Jin Cho - Strauss II, Beethoven, Dvořák

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Strauss II, Beethoven, Dvořák
Orchestre de Paris; Robin Ticciati; Seong-Jin Cho

ParisOrchestre de Paris / Christoph Eschenbach

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Brahms
Orchestre de Paris; Christoph Eschenbach; Leonidas Kavakos

ParisOrchestre de Paris / Riccardo Chailly

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Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Barber, Bernstein
Orchestre de Paris; Riccardo Chailly
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Orchestre de Paris and Mäkelä wow Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw

Klaus Mäkelä © Eduardus Lee
Under its Music Director Klaus Mäkelä, the French orchestra returns to the Concertgebouw for an exhilarating concert with pianist Anna Vinnitskaya.
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New season, new horizons: Salonen opens the Elbphilharmonie

Stefan Dohr and Esa-Pekka Salonen © Daniel Dittus
Salonen and the Orchestre de Paris opened the Elbphilharmonie season with a vivid journey from Strauss’s dramatic energy, through a reflective new Horn Concerto, to Sibelius’s luminous, precise grandeur.
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Rach 4 redefined: Mäkelä and Yunchan Lim set a new benchmark in Seoul

Yunchan Lim and the Orchestre de Paris © Vincero
In Yunchan Lim’s hands the score to Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto emerges as a small revelation, conspicuously succeeding where so many others have floundered. 
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Klaus Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris paint vivid pictures in Vienna

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Orchestre de Paris © Julia Wesely
Maurice Ravel the orchestrator takes centre stage at the Musikverein in an evening of descriptive aural painting. 
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Khatia Buniatishvili in search of her lost fingers

Khatia Buniatishvili and the Orchestre de Paris © Ondine Bertrand
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto turns out to be a shipwreck for the Georgian pianist, despite an admirable Orchestre de Paris and conductor (Kirill Karabits). 
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Fresh and flamboyant: Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris at the Proms

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Orchestre de Paris © BBC | Chris Christodoulou
Klaus Mäkelä presents fresh and dynamic takes on French masterpieces from Debussy and Berlioz, the Orchestre de Paris providing colour and vigour in Stravinsky.
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UnknownEuropiano - The Most Beautiful Piano Concertos from Across Europe

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Brahms, Grieg, Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel, Mozart, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Lyatoshynsky
Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Petr Popelka; Yulianna Avdeeva; Nobuyuki Tsujii; Alim Beisembayev; Eric Lu

Aix-en-ProvenceDie Frau ohne SchattenNew production

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Strauss R.: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Klaus Mäkelä; Barrie Kosky; Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; Michael Levine; Victoria Behr; Franck Evin; Orchestre de Paris

ParisHaydn, Ligeti

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Haydn, Ligeti
Orchestre de Paris; Christoph von Dohnányi; Vicens Prats; Alexandre Gattet
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Maximum drama: BBC Proms 2024

BBC Proms © Mark Allan
The second half of this year’s Proms season heats up with visits from the Czech Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – along with operas by Bizet and Britten.

The natural: Klaus Mäkelä

Klaus Mäkelä © Marco Borggreve
Wunderkind conductor Klaus Mäkelä explains his love for the Orchestre de Paris, for Rachmaninov, and how not to get emotionally drained conducting Shostakovich.

Oiling the machine: Klaus Mäkelä on taking up posts in Oslo and Paris

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Oslo Philharmonic © Marco Borggreve & Oslo Philharmonic
The new Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic reflects on the conductor’s toolbox, programme building and his first season in Oslo.