Dimitri Mitropoulos, Izler Solomon, Claudio Arrau, Richard Tucker and Nathan Milstein, will head a notable list of guest artists performing this spring and summer with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in celebration of Israel’s Tenth Anniversary, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation announced today.
The orchestra’s participation in the Tenth Anniversary Celebration will begin on March 15, when, in the new 3,000-seat Frederic R. Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Carlo Geilini will lead the La Scala singers in a concert version of the Barber of Seville. The opera-concert will be performed until April 15, when the Covent Garden Opera Company will sing the chorale of Beethevon’s Ninth Symphony with the Orchestra under the baton of Rafael Kubelik. In May-when the actual date of Israel’s statehood is celebrated–Izler Solomon will conduct the Orchestra and Nathan Milstein violinist, will be the soloist. The other American guest conductors, singers and soloists will appear during the month of June.
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