Pablo, Jakub and Chris take charge of JEG’s Monteverdi forces

The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras have rolled out their new season with strong replacements for sacked founder Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado leads the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique for the first time in London and Rimini for concerts that include Mozart’s Requiem, Schubert’s 5th Symphony and Bach’s motet ‘Singet dem Hern’.

The German Rossini specialist Jakob Lehmann will conduct scenes from the opera Ermione as well as the Stabat Mater.

Christophe Rousset will lead a Messiah tour to Église Saint-Roch in Paris, Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro alla Scala in Milan and London’s St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Peter Whelan will tour Bach’s St John Passion to Barcelona, Budapest and London.

Jonathan Sells takes charge of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas in the historic location of Greenwich.

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