Death & Transfiguration - The Orchestra of Opera North in Concert

Name: Death & Transfiguration - The Orchestra of Opera North in Concert
Start: 2024-09-19T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Huddersfield Town Hall

Schedule

Thu Sep 19 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Huddersfield Town Hall | Huddersfield, EN

Grieg - Four Norwegian Dances
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
- Prelude and Liebestod
Haydn - Symphony No.70 in D major
Strauss - Death and Transfiguration
- (Tod und Verklärung)
Garry Walker - Conductor
Elizabeth Llewellyn - Soprano
Orchestra of Opera North

Elizabeth Llewellyn Soprano Orchestra of Opera North Opera North Music Director, Garry Walker launches the orchestral season with an evening of music influenced by spirituality.
The concert opens with Grieg’s lively and evocative Four Norwegian Dances, before we’re immersed in the‘Prelude and Liebestod’ from Wagner’s great opera of love and death, Tristan und Isolde. Be swept away with the passion and longing between the protagonists in the ‘Prelude,’ before they become consumed by love so powerful it transcends death itself.
Haydn’s Symphony No.70 provides a refreshing contrast, written amid the aftermath of a devastating fire that claimed his beloved harpsichord and manuscripts. The symphony was then premiered at the opening of the rebuilt opera house, at Esterhazy. Strauss’ tone poem, Death and Transfiguration finishes the programme with a sense of everlasting peace.

Pre-concert talk begins at 6.40pm