CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Matthew Rose
Vlad Iftinca
Part of Salon Encores.
Performers
Matthew Rose, Bass
New York Recital Debut
Vlad Iftinca, Piano
Program
PURCELL "Let the night perish" ("Job's Curse") (realized Britten)
PURCELL "Let the dreadful engines of eternal will" (realized Britten)
LOEWE "Archibald Douglas"
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang
Encore:
R. STRAUSS Baron Ochs and Annina’s Duet / Ochs's Monologue from the Act II Finale of Der Rosenkavalier
At a Glance
The bulk of this evening’s program consists of the 14 songs published after Franz Schubert’s death, entitled Schwanengesang (Swan Song). Named by his publisher, presumably wishing to present it as the composer’s final musical testament to the world, Schubert’s two groups of songs (seven in each) draw on texts by Ludwig Rellstab and Heinrich Heine, with a final farewell by Johann Gabriel Seidl.
Bios
Matthew Rose
British bass Matthew Rose studied at the Curtis Institute of Music before becoming a
member of the Young Artist Program at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 2006,
he made an acclaimed debut at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Bottom (A Midsummer
Night's Dream), for which he received the John Christie Award. He has also sung the
role at Milan's Teatro alla Scala, the Royal Opera House, Opéra National de Lyon, Houston
Grand Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. Recent opera engagements include his acclaimed
debut as Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier) for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Raimondo
(Lucia di Lammermoor) for the Royal Opera House, and King Marke (Tristan und
Isolde) for the English National Opera. This season, he sings Masetto and Leporello
(Don Giovanni) and Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette) at the Met Opera,
Baron Ochs at the Royal Opera House, and Bottom at the Aldeburgh Festival. Mr. Rose has
also sung Talbot (Maria Stuarda) and Colline (La bohème) at the Met
Opera; Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), and Talbot at
the Royal Opera House; Leporello, Nick Shadow (The Rake's Progress), Callistene
(Poliuto), and Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia) at Glyndebourne; and
Claggart (Billy Budd) at the English National Opera.
Mr. Rose's concert performances this season include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the
Budapest Festival Orchestra in New York and Ann Arbor, Michigan; a Schubert mass with the
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Kent Nagano; and Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski. Past concert engagements have included
the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Colin Davis, Daniel Harding, and Michael Tilson
Thomas; the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel; the Staatskapelle Dresden with
Sir Charles Mackerras; the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis, Jiří Bělohlávek,
and Marc Minkowski; the London Philharmonic Orchestra and The Philadelphia Orchestra with
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Charles Dutoit; and the Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Sir Antonio Pappano.
This season, Mr. Rose performs Schubert's Winterreise in recital at Wigmore Hall.
Past recital appearances have included the Brighton, Chester, and Cheltenham music
festivals, as well as performances at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and the Kennedy Center in
Washington, DC. Recent recordings include a critically acclaimed Winterreise with
pianist Gary Matthewman; Schwanengesang with Malcolm Martineau (Stone Records);
and Arias for Benucci with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen (Hyperion).
Vlad Iftinca
Vlad Iftinca is on the assistant conductor roster as part of the Metropolitan Opera's
2016-2017 season. Between 2007 and 2014, he held the position of staff coach for the Met's
Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Born in Romania, he received his primary
education at Madrid's Queen Sofía College of Music and pursued graduate studies at The
Juilliard School.
As a conductor, Mr. Iftinca has led performances at Oper Frankfurt, Tri-Cities Opera, and
Romanian National Opera, Iași, as well as with the Opera on the Avalon festival. He has
collaborated in recital with distinguished artists who include Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Deborah
Voigt, Thomas Hampson, Hei-Kyung Hong, Luca Pisaroni, Joan Rodgers, Isabel Leonard, and
Elza van den Heever, and has performed at venues and festivals that include Madrid's
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Munich's Max-Joseph-Saal, Valencia's Palau de les Arts,
France's Soirées Musicales d'Arles, Beijing Music Festival, Los Angeles Opera, Seoul Arts
Center, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Salt Lake City's Virtuoso Series, and Ravinia Festival's
recital series.
At the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Iftinca has worked with conductors who include James
Levine, Sir Andrew Davis, Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda, Maurizio Benini, David
Robertson, and Marco Armiliato. Recent conducting engagements have included Lucia di
Lammermoor at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, La traviata and Hänsel und
Gretel at Tri-Cities Opera, and The Nutcracker with the Binghamton
Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also accompanied Erin Morley and Lisette Oropesa in recitals
in Switzerland and at the Kennedy Center.