Season Finale: Strauss’ “Metamorphosen” with Gábor Takács-Nagy

Name: Season Finale: Strauss’ “Metamorphosen” with Gábor Takács-Nagy
Start: 2026-06-12T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-12T12:45:00-05:00
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Schedule

Fri Jun 12 2026 at 11:00 am to 12:45 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts | St Paul, MN

Artistic Partner Gábor Takács-Nagy returns for another consecutive season finale leading the orchestra for a program that touches on many of our 2025.26 season themes, including the idea of music and art as hope and light. Written in the final and darkest days of World War II, Richard Strauss’ monumental and emotional “Metamorphosen” mourns the corruption and destruction of German culture. This musical response to fascism, written for 23 strings, depicts a transformation from pain and darkness to hope and light, with homages to his German predecessors including Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. As our final piece, Robert Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony references the flow of the Rhine River and the ceaseless flow of time — a natural bookend to our 2025.26 season, which is framed by a quote from Schumann himself: “To send light into the depths of the human heart — this is the artist’s calling.”
We are deeply grateful for a generous bequest from The Robinson Family that helped make this performance possible. To learn how you can make music possible by supporting the SPCO in your will or estate plan, please contact Erin VanBurkleo at [email protected] or 651.292.3275.