Star Cross’d Lovers: Wagner, Kenneth Hesketh & Prokofiev

Name: Star Cross’d Lovers: Wagner, Kenneth Hesketh & Prokofiev
Start: 2024-12-06T19:45:00+00:00
Location: Ulster Hall

Schedule

Fri Dec 06 2024 at 07:45 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Ulster Hall | Belfast, NI

Wagner: Prelude: Tristan und Isolde
Kenneth Hesketh: Uncoiling the River
Prokofiev: Selections from Romeo & Juliet
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Anna Rakitina: Conductor
Clare Hammond: Piano
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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.
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.