Programme
- Elysium
- Mass in D minor 'Nelsonmesse', Hob. XXII:11
- Ein Heldenleben
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- Hannu Lintuconductor
- Masabane Cecilia Rangwanashasoprano
- Jennifer Johnstonmezzo-soprano
- Derek Weltonbass-baritone
About This Event
No prizes for guessing the real hero of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. With its swashbuckling self-confidence, self-mocking humour and a positively steamy love scene, this “Hero’s Life” is very much the world according to R. Strauss – an exuberant, off-the-scale showpiece for the 鶹ƵAV Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Hannu Lintu, making a much-anticipated return.
And that’s not even the half of it: Lintu opens the concert with a vision of paradise, originally created for the Vienna Philharmonic by the brilliant young Canadian composer Samy Moussa. Then it’s the turn of the 鶹ƵAV Symphony Chorus and a starry line up of solo singers, in Haydn’s Nelson Mass: sacred music written in a time of war, with all the power and drama of a great opera. An electrifying centrepiece to a concert that’s larger than life.
Tickets on general sale from 19 April