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E 8 PM
FRIDAYS
SEP 25 JAN 29 MAR 5 APR 30 JUN 11 JUN 18
Simon Trpčeski
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
SEP 25 JAN 29 MAR 5
BEETHOVEN FIDELIO TCHAIKOVSKY PIANO
CONCERTO BRAHMS DOUBLE
CONCERTO
Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu leads an
all-Russian program including the colorful,
witty and melodious Russian Overture
and Tchaikovsky’s passionate Piano
Concerto No. 1, featuring the fiery virtuoso
Simon Trpčeski. Stravinsky’s unforgettable
tragi-comic puppet reigns over his vivid
portrait of a Russian fair in Petrushka. The BSO’s Concertmaster Jonathan
Carney and Principal Cello Dariusz
Skoraczewski perform Brahms’ Double
Concerto, a beautiful ode to friendship
lost and friendship regained. This
magnificent work was Brahms’ successful
effort to restore his once close friendship
with violinist Joseph Joachim. Conductor
Kwamé Ryan leads the Orchestra in
Shostakovich’s powerful Tenth Symphony,
known for its dramatic effect and
captivating beauty.
In honor of Beethoven’s 250th birthday,
Marin Alsop opens the season with a
semi-staged concert of the composer’s
only opera, Fidelio, with its story of a heroic
woman’s rescue of her unjustly imprisoned
husband, updated to today’s America. In
Heartbeat Opera's critically-acclaimed
adaptation, a black activist is wrongfully
incarcerated, and his wife disguises herself
to infiltrate the system and free him. The
moving Prisoner’s Chorus is performed
on video by more than one hundred
incarcerated singers from six prison
choirs. The New Yorker’s Alex Ross called
director Ethan Heard's original production
“imaginative, vital and heartbreaking.”
MARIN ALSOP, CONDUCTOR
CONCEPT BY HEARTBEAT OPERA,
ETHAN HEARD, CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
HANDEL CHOIR OF BALTIMORE,
BRIAN BARTOLDUS, DIRECTOR
BEETHOVEN Fidelio
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HANNU LINTU, CONDUCTOR
SIMON TRPČESKI, PIANO
PROKOFIEV Russian Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1947 Version)
KWAMÉ RYAN, CONDUCTOR
JONATHAN CARNEY, VIOLIN
DARIUSZ SKORACZEWSKI, CELLO
BRAHMS Concerto for Violin and Cello
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10