1 September 2010

Robin Ticciati makes his debut at the BBC Proms at the end of his Glyndebourne Festival season

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Many congratulations to Robin Ticciati who has made his BBC Proms debut conducting Humperdink's Hansel und Gretel. This semi-staged adaptation brought to a close Robin's hugely successful run of Laurent Pelly's Glyndebourne Festival production in a summer which also saw Robin making his Edinburgh Festival debut with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

The Glyndbourne production attracted fantastic reviews.  Tim Ashley, writing in the Guardian, described Robin as  "the evening's real hero....immaculate in his pacing and breathtaking in his negotiation of the balance between Wagnerian disturbance and folk-based magic" and  Rupert Christiansen (The Telegraph) declared his conducting of the London Philharmonic "nothing less than stupendous".

The Prom itself was also a great success for Robin; with the Guardian noting that "He has a wondrous touch in this piece, bringing out not only the light and shade in this often unutterably beautiful score, but all the shades in between". Reviewing for the Artsdesk.com David Nice wrote that "Ticciati's pliancy and his achingly beautiful phrasing let the score break luminously free of any post-Wagnerian excesses or pastiche - sometimes dreaming, sometimes tripping wide-eyed into the seemingly naive folkloric world inhabited by the young Mahler".