Stella Georgiou (soprano)
David Johnson (tenor)
Constantinos Yiannoudis (baritone)
Dakis Troullos (bassoon)
Artistic director & conductor: Ayis Ioannides
Programme
G. VERDI:
from the opera Macbeth:
Aria Macduff: Ah, la paterna mano
Aria Macbeth: Pietà , respetto, amore
from the opera Otello:
Duet Otello-Desdemona
Già nella notte
Aria Jago: Credo in un Dio crudel
Desdemona Scene: Salce, salce and Ave Maria
C. M.WEBER Allegro ma non troppo from Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in F major, Op. 75
P.I. TCHAIKOVSKY: Overture – Fantasy Romeo and Juliet
The list of composers and works inspired by Shakespeare’s dramas is very lengthy. Chronologically it covers four centuries and the works span a wide spectrum of musical genres, from the Masques of Purcell (a kind of English musical theatre of the 17th century), incidental music for dramatic performances, operas and symphonic works of Berlioz, Verdi, Gounod, Tchaikovsky and other composers of the romantic era, Bernstein’s famous musical West side story to the late 20th century opera King Lear by Reimann.
The programme presented by the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra is centred around romantic works of three genres.
Mendelssohn’s Wedding March is part of his incidental music to A midsummer night’s dream and is one of the two solemn marches most often played at wedding ceremonies (the other comes from Wagner’s opera Lohengrin).
Verdi, the leading composer of Italian opera, was a passionate admirer of Shakespeare. He wrote Macbeth early in his career, but such was his conviction in the quality of the work that he revised it several years later and produced the version which is normally played today. Otello on the other hand is a product of his mature years and was destined to be his penultimate work, followed Falstaff, not a tragedy, but based on Shakespeare’s comedy The merry wives of Windsor.
Tchaikovsky’s boundless talent to express tragedy worked wonders in the creation of his Fantasy-Overture Romeo and Juliet to produce one of the most dramatically shattering works of the repertoire, set in an admirable, tightly wrought symphonic form.
Larnaka:
September 1st, 2009
Time: 20:30
Venue: Larnaca Municipal Theater
Entrance: €12 / pensioners €7 / students, soldiers free
Nicosia:
September 2nd, 2009
Time: 20:30
Venue: Strovolos Municipal Theatre
Entrance: €12 / pensioners €7 / students, soldiers free
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