Daniel Harding conducts Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony Daniel Harding conducts Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony

Praised for his “poetic moments of sound” (BR Klassik), Harding has conducted orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic, appeared at La Scala in Milan and the Royal Opera House in London, and worked at festivals including Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg. He has held chief conductor positions in Trondheim, Bremen and Paris, served as a guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and is honorary conductor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2027 he becomes music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

“Successful conducting is 80 per cent empathy and 20 per cent gesture,” says the Paris-based British conductor. He draws on the same combination of technical precision and responsiveness in his unusual second career: as a pilot for Air France.

She made her operatic debut in 2013 as Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Ulriksdal Palace Theatre near Stockholm. Further debuts followed at the Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera House and Glyndebourne Festival. She attracted international attention in 2019 when she won the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition. In 2021 she received the Birgit Nilsson Scholarship, and in 2023 represented Sweden at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.

Her repertoire includes several major Mozart roles, among them Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. She is also active internationally as a concert singer, working with orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Czech Philharmonic and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

She made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2012 in Handel’s Tamerlano, alongside Plácido Domingo, and later returned in the title role of the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon. In 2017 she attracted wider international attention as Sesto in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. She has since appeared regularly at the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Opéra de Paris, in roles including Carmen, Dorabella, Mélisande and Ruggiero. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2025.

Crebassa also appears frequently in concert with orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic and Berliner Philharmoniker; she made her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker at the 2019 Waldbühne concert.

Founded in 1925, the Rundfunkchor Berlin works with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. It has appeared regularly with the Berliner Philharmoniker since the early 1990s in works including Dvořák’s Stabat mater, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette and Ligeti’s Requiem. Their staged collaborations include Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion with Sir Simon Rattle and director Peter Sellars. Under Kirill Petrenko, the partnership has continued with works including Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter, Strauss’s Elektraand Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.