Music|Sir John Eliot Gardiner, 81, continues his career as conductor of the Constellation Choir and Orchestra.
Conductor John Eliot Gardiner has formed a new orchestra and choir after being fired from the previous ones for violent behaviour.
On Monday, Gardiner announced the new Constellation Choir and Orchestra, which will operate under the Springhead Constellation umbrella organization he directs. A British newspaper tells about it Guardian.
In July Gardiner’s was told to leave management positions in the former Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras, which managed the Gardiner-founded Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists and Orchester Révolutionnaire et Romantique orchestras.
Situation dates back to the events of August 2023, when the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchester Révolutionnaire et Romantique performed in France Hector Berliozin opera The Trojans.
Gardiner’s has been told the bass singer of the beat choir William Thomasia at the event after the concert, after he left the wrong side of the stage.
Gardiner later apologized for his behavior. He has speculated that it was due to the extreme heat and the fact that the medication he was using had changed a little earlier. He canceled his appearances and got himself professional help.
English Sir John Eliot Gardiner, 81, is one of the pioneers of the early music movement. Its goal has been to play historical music as authentically as possible, i.e. the purpose has been to reach the tonal world of the time the pieces were composed.
At the very beginning of his career in 1964, Gardiner founded the Monteverdi Choir Claudio Monteverdin Vespers of the Blessed Virgin – for the presentation of the work. He founded the English Baroque Soloists orchestra in 1978 and the Orchester Révolutionnaire et Romantique orchestra in 1989.