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David Parry

Conductor

  • David Parry conducts with energy and elegance
    Robert Thicknesse, The Times
  • the musical performance under David Parry sweeps more or less everything before it
    Andrew Clements, The Guardian
  • David Parry conducted with exemplary sense of style
    Michael Kennedy, Sunday Telegraph

  • David Parry is acknowledged as an inspirational champion of operatic, concert and symphonic repertoire across a vast range. He is known both for the re-appraisal of important lesser-known compositions and for a consistently fresh approach to established repertoire. Recent engagements include Lucia di Lammermoor for Opera Murcia, Il turco in Italia for Garsington Opera, Il barbiere di Siviglia for Staatsoper Stuttgart, concert appearances with the Philharmonia Orchestra featuring Sir John Tomlinson and Carmen Giannattasio, and a new production of Petrushka for Geneva Opera.

    Significant credits include the world premiere of Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio (in separate productions for Opera North and Staatstheater Stuttgart), Der Fliegender Holländer (for Portland Opera), Madama Butterfly (in Anthony Minghella’s production for ENO which earned him an Olivier Award), Cosí fan tutte and the premiere of Dove’s Flight (both for Glyndebourne Festival Opera) and Maria Stuarda (for Stockholm Royal Opera).

    David Parry made his operatic debut with La cenerentola for English Music Theatre and subsequently joined the conducting staff first at Dortmund then at Opera North. He was Music Director of Opera 80, and founding Music Director of Almeida Opera, with whom he gave the world premieres of works by Nigel Osborne, Kevin Volans, Elena Firsova, and Param Vir. Other significant world-premieres have included Stephen Oliver’s Mario and the Magician at the Batignano Festival, and Jonathan Dove’s Tobias and the Angel in 2006 and his oratorio There was a Child at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival in 2009.

    In the UK he has conducted frequently at both ENO and Opera North in repertoire ranging through Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Britten, and at Garsington Opera where he is particularly noted for his Rossini.

    International successes include the Spanish premieres of Peter Grimes and The Rake’s Progress, and Jenůfa, all in Madrid, the Greek premiere of Nixon in China at the National Theatre of Greece, the Dutch premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Flight at the Nationale Reisopera, Die Zauberflöte at Oper Köln and Don Giovanni at Staatstheater Hannover. He has appeared at the Oviedo Festival and Quincena Musical San Sebastian in Spain, at the Hong Kong International Festival, the New Zealand International Festival,  New Israeli Opera and Theater Basel. He enjoys a close association with Staastheater Stuttgart, where, in addition to a The Adventures of Pinocchio, he has conducted Don Giovanni, Le Comte Ory, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Turandot.

    Much in demand from ensembles both in the UK and further afield, David Parry is regularly at the helm of orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, City of Birmingham, Halle, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and English Chamber Orchestra.

    He has an extensive discography for Chandos and Opera Rara. His recent recording of Rossini Ermione won a Gramophone Award for best opera 2011.

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    • Il Turco in Italia
      Garsington Opera

      Conductor David Parry shows top-class Rossinian credentials, keeping the score dancing merrily along.
      George Hall, The Guardian
      ...David Parry's Rossini has zest and drive...[Parry's] conducting and first-rate fortepiano continuo provides fizz...
      Anna Picard, The Independent
      The icing on the cake is David Parry in the pit, a consummate Rossinian.
      Edward Bhesania, The Stage

    • Rossini Ermione
      London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conducted with insistent tenacity and considerable force by David Parry, it captured much of the work's rage and neurotic ferocity
      Tim Ashley, Guardian
      David Parry conducted the LPO and the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir with a noisy ebullience that was determined to raise the roof
      Richard Fairman, Financial Times

    • Armida
      Garsington Opera

      In the pit, David Parry conducted with passionate energy. This was small-scale country-house opera at its best.
      Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph
      David Parry conducts with head-dizzying zing.
      Hugh Canning, Sunday Times
      the musical performance under David Parry sweeps more or less everything before it
      Andrew Clements, The Guardian

    • Nabucco
      Chandos Records

      Parry's conducting of the bel canto composers is second to none.
      Robert Levine, International Record Review

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