Opera & Choral Repertoire

Opera Repertoire :


Béla Bartók - Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

Georges Bizet - Carmen

Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes

Antonín Dvořák - Rusalka

Charles Gounod - Faust

Charles Gounod - Roméo et Juliette

Leoš Janáček - Šárka

Leoš Janáček - Jenůfa

Leoš Janáček - Osud (Fate)

Leoš Janáček - Káta Kabanová

Leoš Janáček - The Cunning Little Vixen

Leoš Janáček - The Makropulos Case

Leoš Janáček - From the House of the Dead

Ruggiero Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci

Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana

Jules Massanet - Werther

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Così fan tutte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die Zauberflöte

Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini - Tosca

Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly

Camille Saint-Saens - Samson et Dalila

Bedřich Smetana - The Bartered Bride

Bedřich Smetana - Two Widows

Johann Strauss Jr. - Die Fledermaus

Arthur Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance

Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco

Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata

Giuseppe Verdi - Un ballo in maschera

Giuseppe Verdi - Il Trovatore

Viktor Ullmann - Der Kaiser von Atlantis

Kurt Weill - Die Dreigroschenoper

Selected Choral Repertoire:

George Frideric Handel – The Messiah

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem

Luigi Cherubini – Requiem

Johannes Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem

Antonín Dvořák – Te Deum

Gabriel Fauré – Requiem

Leoš Janáček – Glagolitic Mass

Leoš Janáček – Na Solani Cartak

Leoš Janáček – Rikadla

Carl Orff – Carmina Burana

Francis Poulenc - Gloria

Selected Repertoire Prepared or Previously Conducted:

Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio in g-min (arr. Giazotto)
Johann Seb. Bach - Concerto for Violin in E-major, Suite #2 in b-minor, Cantata #5 “Jauchzet Gott”
Samuel Barber ‑ Adagio for Strings, Essay #1 for Orchestra, Knoxville Summer of 1915, Violin Concerto
Béla Bartók ‑ Concerto for Orchestra, Dance Suite, Divertimento, Music for Strings Percussion Celesta
- Rumanian Dances, The Miraculous Mandarin, Piano Concerti #1-3, Violin Concerto #2
- Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (complete opera)
L. van Beethoven - Overtures: Coriolon, Egmont, Fidelio, & Leonore #3, Piano Concerti #1-5, Violin Concerto
Symphonies #1-9, Missa Solemnis
Hector Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture, Symphony fantastique
Leonard Bernstein - Candide Overture, Facsimile, Three Meditations from “Mass”, Symphonies #1 & 2,
- West Side Story (complete), Songfest
Georges Bizet - Carmen (complete opera)
Ernst Bloch - Schelomo
Luigi Boccherini ‑ Cello Concerto in Bb maj.
Alexander Borodin - Prince Igor, Overture
Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture, Tragic Overture, Variations on a Theme of Haydn
‑ Hungarian Dances, Piano Concerti #1-2, Violin Concerto, Quintet op. 111 (arr. for orch.)
- Symphonies #1-4, Ein deutsches Requiem
Benjamin Britten - Simple Symphony, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Young Person’s Guide to Orch.
Anton Bruckner - Symphonies #3 & 4
Luigi Cherubini - Requiem
Aaron Copland - El salon Mexico, Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, Rodeo, Symphony #3, Quiet City
- Clarinet Concerto, A Lincoln Portrait, The Tender Land
Claude Debussy - La mer, Nocturnes, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Danses sacree et profane
David Diamond ‑ Rounds for String Orchestra
Gaetano Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera)
Antonin Dvorák - Rusalka (complete opera), Biblical Songs, Op. 99, Te Deum, Violoncello Concerto,
The Wild Dove, Carnival Overture, In Nature’s Realm, Serenade for Strings, Symphonies #6-9
Werner Egk - Franzosische Suite nach Rameau, Die Zaubergeige (Overture), La Tentation de Saint Antoine
Edward Elgar ‑ Serenade for Strings, Op. 20, Introduction and Allegro for Strings
Gabriel Fauré ‑ Elegy for Cello and Orchestra, Pavane, Requiem
Cesar Franck ‑ Symphony in D minor, Op. 48, Symphonic Variations
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris
Mikhail Glinka - Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)
Henrik Gorecki - Three Pieces in Old Style
Louis M. Gottschalk - A Night in the Tropics
Charles Gounod - Faust, Romeo et Juliette (complete operas)
Edvard Grieg ‑ Holdberg Suite, Op. 40, Piano Concerto
Georg Fr. Handel ‑ The Messiah (complete), Concerto grosso in c, Op.6 No. 8
Roy Harris - Symphony #3
Fr. Joseph Haydn - Symphonies #34, 60, 94, 102, 104, Horn Concerto #2 in D maj, Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Paul Hindemith - Kammermusik Nr. 1, Symphonie “Mathis der Maler”
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Karel Husa ‑ Music for Prague 1968
Jaques Ibert ‑ Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
Abdullah Ibrahim - African Suite
Charles Ives ‑ The Unanswered Question
Leos Janácek - String Quartet #1 (arr. for string orch.), Suite for String Orchestra, The Fiddler’s Child
Jealousy (overture), Ballad of Blanik, Lachian Dances, Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba,
Na Solani Cartak, Glagolitic Mass, Rikadla,
Sarka, Jenufa, Osud, Excursions of Mr. Broucek, Kata Kabanova, The Cunning Little Vixen,
The Makropulos Case, From the House of the Dead (complete operas)
Wojciech Kilar - Orawa
Zoltan Kodaly ‑ Dances of Galantea
Libby Larson ‑ What the Monster Saw
R. Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci (complete opera)
Gustav Mahler - Symphonies #1-5, Lieder eines fahrender Gesellen
Alessandro Marcello - Oboe Concerto
Frank Martin - Ballad for Flute
Bohuslav Martinu ‑ Les Fresques de Piero de Francesca, Symphonies #4 & 5, Double Concerto
Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana (complete opera)
Jules Massanet - Werther (complete opera)
William Mayer ‑ Inner and Outer Strings
Felix Mendelssohn ‑ A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Hebrides, Violin Concerto, Symphonies #3 & 4

Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphonie
Darius Milhaud ‑ Le boef sur le toit, La creation du monde
W. A. Mozart - Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte (complete operas)
Requiem, Ch’ io mi scordi di te, Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail (overture & arias)
Symphonies #25, 35 “Haffner”, 36 “Linz”, 38 “Prague”, 39, 40, &41 “Jupiter”
Sinfonia concertante K.9/297b, Violin concerto in G-major, Piano Concerto in c-min.
Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
Walter Piston ‑ Divertimento for Nine Instruments
Francis Poulenc ‑ Gloria, Concerto for Two Pianos in d min
Sergei Prokofiev - Violin Concerto #2, Piano Concerto #3, Classical Symphony, Symphony #5
Giacomo Puccini ‑ La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Tosca (complete operas)
Henry Purcell ‑ Chacony in g
Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concerti #2 & 3, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Symphonies #2 & 3, Symphonic Dances, Vocalise
Maurice Ravel - Alborado de gracioso, Boléro, Ma mere l’oye, Pavane pour une Infant défunte, Shéhérazade,
Daphnis et Chloe, Le tombeau de Couperin
Ottorino Respighi - The Pines of Rome, Trittico Botticelliano
N. Rimsky-Korsakov - A Fairy Tale, Op.29, The Czar’s Bride (arias), Shéhérazade, Russian Easter Overture
Gioachino Rossini ‑ Overtures: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il Signor Bruschino, L’Italiana in Algeri, La gazza ladra,
Semiramide
Albert Roussel - The Spider’s Feast
Camille Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto #2, Symphony #3, Samson et Dalila (complete opera)
Kazimirez Serocki - Swinging Music
William Schuman - New England Tryptich
Robert Schumann - Concerto for Violoncello, Symphonies #1-4
Helmut Schmidinger - Oboe Concerto
Arnold Schönberg ‑ Transfigured Night, Op. 4, Kammersymphonie op. 9, Pierrot Lunaire, op 21
Franz Schubert ‑ Symphonies #4, 8 “Unfinished”, & 9 “the Great”
Jean Sibelius ‑ 6 Humoresques, Valse Triste, Op. 44, Violin concerto, Symphony #2 & 7
Bedrich Smetana - The Bartered Bride, The Kiss, Two Widows (complete operas)
My Country (Ma Vlast)
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphonies #1, 5, 9, Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a
Johann Strauss - Concerto for Horn
Johann Strauss, Jr. - Die Fledermaus (complete opera),
Voices of Spring Waltz, Pizzicato Polka, Die Zigeunerbaron (overture)
Richard Strauss - Burleske, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel
Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Suite, Petroushka, Le sacre du printemps, L’histoire du soldat, Dumbarton Oaks,
Pulcinella Suite, Apollon musagete
Joseph Suk - Serenade for Strings, Fantasy for Violin & Orchestra, Asrael, A Fairy Tale, Scherzo Fantastique
Arthur Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance (complete)
P.I. Tchaikovsky - Symphonies #4-6, Serenade for String Orchestra, The Nutcracker (complete ballet)
Capriccio Italien, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, Rococo Variations, Violin Concerto
Viktor Ullmann - Der Kaiser von Atlantis
R. Vaughan-Williams - Concerto for Oboe, Concerto for Tuba, Symphony #5 in D, The Lark Ascending,
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’
Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Un ballo in mascera (complete operas)
Overtures: La forza del destino, les vespres sicilienne
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Richard Wagner - Overtures: Rienzi, Die Meistersinger, Tristan and Isolde (Prelude & Liebestod)
Siegfried Idyll
- Tannhauser (complete opera), Die Walkure (Act I)
Carl Maria von Weber - Overtures: Euryante, Der Freischutz
Anton Webern - Passacaglia, op. 1
Kurt Weill - The Threepenny Opera


In addition, there are many pieces which although I have studied at one time, I do not consider them yet to be “in my repertoire” , for example Schönberg’s opus 16 and his Variations for Orchestra which I studied with the scores in all of Simon Rattle’s rehearsals with the Vienna Philharmonic in 2001.

Orchestras Conducted Include:

Augsburg Philharmonic
Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Zlin
Brno Philharmonic
Brno National Theater Orchestra
Carlsbad Symphony
City Opera of Usti nad Labem
Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Czech Virtuosi
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic
Hungarian Opera Cluj-Napoca
Janacek Philharmonic
Jefferson Symphony Orchestra
Kammerphilharmonie der Nationen
Monroe Symphony Orchestra
New Orleans Civic Symphony
New World Symphony
North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Miskolc
Oakland East Bay Symphony
Orchestre de Besançon Franche-Comté
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Orchestre National de Lyon
Prague Philharmonia
Pilsen Philharmonic
Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic
Rapides Symphony
Saint Joseph Symphony
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Sinfonieorchester
Singapore Sun Festival Orchestra
Slovak Philharmonic
Slovak Sinfonietta,
South Bohemia Chamber Philharmonic
Stern Orchestra Prague
Talich Chamber Orchestra
Vargön Youth Orchestra