The many pathways of love will be explored in a special series of concerts at The Gallery in Green Acres next month. Wexford pianist and répétiteur Rebecca Warren will be joined by soprano Hannah O’Brien for Les chemins de l’amour, an evening of opera arias featuring the works of Dvorák, Mozart, Puccini and the songs of Poulenc, Stanford and Strauss.
We cannot say precisely when the musical penetration of East and West began, but one thing is certain: composers like Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and others could not resist the fascination of the Orient. Thus elements of Turkish music, Persian poetry and Arabic storytelling found their way straight to the heart of European culture. By Nadja Kayali