Celebrity Celebration July 2, 2018: Sylvain Cambreling

Stuttgart (dpa) – Sylvain Cambreling can not stay still for a few days before his next big performance. The Generalmusikdirektor of the Stuttgart Staatsoper with the distinctive gray pigtail is currently studying the new composition of Toshio Hosokawa.

For the first time, the 62-year-old Japanese hears here, like his At the beginning, piece by piece, notes delivered in the sound of the # 39; orchestra. "It's beautiful," he says. "Erdbeben.Träume" is the name of the opera commissioned by Cambreling himself on the eve of his 70th birthday (2 July).

The French, twice "Driver of the Year", said goodbye to the Stuttgart Opera after six years before moving on to Hamburg. "If I could not work, I would be sick," says Cambreling, who sometimes swings his hands as well as he's driving.

The question of how his colleagues still work in old age, he responds regularly, "I give a lot of energy, but I also recover a lot of energy from the music." Sometimes it's exhausting, but without the family and children it works well. "I am always free."

Now he is shot from the Southwest, where the Staatsorchester also celebrates this season his 425 years in the north: he is the new conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra – and successor to Sir Jeffrey Tate, last year is dead. In Stuttgart, the young Cornelius Meister takes over the general direction of music. But Cambreling does not come to rest in Hamburg either. He remains conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and first guest conductor of the Klangforum Wien for contemporary music.

"I live in my suitcase," says Cambreling. Born in 1948 in Amiens, he began his career as a trombonist from Lyon, stopped in Paris and worked for ten years at the Théâtre de la Monnaie of the Brussels Opera. He has also made his debut at the Milan Scala, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Vienna State Opera. As a musician with great ideas, who captivates his audience, he is promoted by his London agency Hazard Chase. It is said that "Cambreling is an artist that inspires reflection, multi-faceted and dramatic."

Music critics praise Cambreling as a universalist who stands on the podium with a light hand and often in the spirit. His recording of the works of Oliver Messiaen with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg is "an unprecedented live, sound and accurate reproduction of this unique sound cosmos", jury judged for the annual prize of the German Record Critics 2009. [19659004] In addition to such successes, it appeared Cambreling always determined when things did not go as he imagined it. In 1996, he resigned as an Artistic Intendant and General Director of Music of the Frankfurt Opera, which was named "Opera of the Year" the same year, when the financial debates and policies against grain went there. And even though the merger of the SWR Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra and Freiburg, directed by him, with the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart was decided, he declined the post of orchestra conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra

. , "I always feel this as a scandal." Two excellent orchestras were destroyed and a huge apparatus was created. As a Frenchman, he finds a comparison in the blend of wines. "You can not make a vintage with Bordeaux and Burgundy together," he says. It takes a lot of time for a new sound, not just two, five or ten years.

Cambreling has often shown that he feared nothing new. Almost legendary is her relaxed relationship to new music and world firsts. He wishes here, outside the popular clbadic popular opening even larger to the public. "You have to be ready for a surprise, get ready to forget everything else and open your eyes and ears," he says of many music lovers as a non-melodious and unpleasant music.

"We do not know the truth what beauty is," says Cambreling.It's like being fashionable when everyone wears different clothes.The modern art has also taken time for that people accept it. "It also takes time for this music, but basically it's for everyone."