Boston Symphony Orchestra & Charles Dutoit To Take On Stravinsky & Ravel

Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit will guide the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) for three nights starting Oct. 25 and ending Oct. 27 through the works of Stravinsky and Ravel at the Boston Symphony Hall along with other featured performers. Tickets on the nights will range from $32 to $124.

Joining the Dutoit and his ensemble will be the likes of soprano Olga Peretyatko and mezzo-sporano Julie Boulianne. Sandrine Piau along with Diane Axentii will be performing so will Yvonne Naef and tenor Edgaras Montvidas.

Jean-Paul Fouchecourt will be joined by baritone David Kravitz as well as baritone Kelly Markgraf, David Wilson-Johnson and bass Matthew Rose. Also added to the show will be the Tanglewood Festival Chorus guided by conductor John Oliver.

Dutoit will lead mass ensemble through Stravinsky's "The Nightingale" and Ravel's "L'Enfant et les sortileges" (The Child and Magic Spells).

The very private Charles Dutoit began his conducting career with the Radio Lausanne in 1959 and can be linked with numerous ensembles.

Dutoit was the guest conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in 1959 as well and worked with other acts in his native Switzerland in his formative years like Radio Zurich and the Bern Symphony Orchestra.

Before taking over the Boston Symphony Orchestra the Swiss worked with the likes of the Gothenburg Symphony in Sweden and the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico.

Dutoit also had other stints in conducting on North America as he is allied with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal in Canada.

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