The NZSO performs Symphonie Fantastique in Wellington, Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch in May. “Dreams and the dream-state have always been really fertile material for artists. All three of the beautiful works in this concert have dreams woven through them, but in really different ways,” Mathieson said.
Symphonie Fantastique, first performed in 1830, changed the course of classical music and is considered a landmark in how music can also tell a richly-detailed story. In the five-movement symphony, a young artist falls is love, believes he’s rejected and turns to opium. The drug plunges him into dreams and hallucinations where he murders his lover, is executed, and awakes in hell at a witches’ sabbath.
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NZSO launches innovative Festival series and more special events in 2021 The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will introduce an innovative Festival series and expand its popular and accessible Setting Up Camp tour to more communities in 2021.
The multi-day Festival and Setting Up Camp tours are in addition to an exciting selection of other concerts and special events the national orchestra will present next year.
Renowned international conductors Marin Alsop, Vasily Petrenko, Asher Fisch and James Judd will join New Zealanders Gemma New, Holly Mathieson and NZSO Principal Conductor in Residence Hamish McKeich for the Orchestra’s 2021 Season.
Acclaimed New Zealand pianists Stephen De Pledge and Diedre Irons, soprano Madeleine Pierard, mezzo-soprano Kristin Darragh, tenor Simon O’Neill and bass Paul Whelan are among the soloists confirmed. NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen directs a programme which includes Vivaldi’s The Four Season
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The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will introduce an innovative Festival series and expand its popular and accessible Setting Up Camp tour to more communities in 2021. The multi-day Festival and Setting Up Camp tours are in addition to an exciting .