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The Met Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Joyce DiDonato - Berlioz
Symphonic Concert
Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie
Duration: about 1h55 with 1 intermission

Program

Distribution

Hector Berlioz
Le Corsaire
Ouverture
Les Troyens
"Chers Tyriens", Chasse Royale et Orage, "Adieu, fière cité”
Intermission
Symphonie fantastique
The Met Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin , conducting
Joyce DiDonato , mezzo-soprano

A Berliozian season’s end for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who became its Musical Director in September 2018.
 
The Canadian conductor dedicates this second evening in his two-part concert series to Berlioz, a composer for whom he has a particular fondness. In Symphonie fantastique, Yannick Nézet-Séguin has conducted the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (of which he was recently appointed artistic director ‘for life’), as well as the Philharmonic Orchestras of Rotterdam (for a critically acclaimed album) and of Berlin. He is joined by Joyce Di Donato for excerpts of the opera Les Troyens, a score in which the singer excels: ‘I love singing [Berlioz] operas in concert version’, she remarked during an interview on France Musique in 2018. ‘…It is a real challenge, because it all rides on the voice. And when it works, it is far more explosive. It pierces straight into the hearts of the audience’.

Media

Hector Berlioz : Symphonie fantastique - Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, Jean-Claude Casadesus (direction)
Hector Berlioz : Les Troyens - Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, John Nelson (direction) Apple Music
Karina-Canellakis

Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie

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Getting here

Porte de Pantin station
M5 Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5 3B Tram 3B
Address
221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris

To leave after this concert

taxi G7

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