Ulster Orchestra: Star Cross’d Lovers
Description
An evening of romance, tragedy and drama.
A tragic love story is perfect for the drama of ballet and opera – if not for the story’s protagonists! Prokofiev’s ballet depicts the most infamous ‘star-cross’d lovers’ of them all, Romeo and Juliet, with music that is a brilliant realisation of Shakespeare’s play and some of Prokofiev’s most memorable and instantly appealing work, while Wagner’s Prelude from Tristan und Isolde is a lushly hypnotic, achingly yearning depiction of two more tragic lovers, this time from Renaissance romance. Pianist Clare Hammond performs Kenneth Hesketh’s Uncoiling the River, a piece which loops round itself, sinuous and labyrinthine, and explores our perception of the passing of time.
Wagner - Prelude: Tristan und Isolde
Kenneth Hesketh - Uncoiling the River
Prokofiev - Selections from Romeo & Juliet
ANNA RAKITINA - CONDUCTOR
CLARE HAMMOND - PIANO
- Admission £6 - £37
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