London Philharmonic Orchestra, Strauss and Zemlinsky

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London
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This event ended on Wednesday 26th of September 2012
Admission
£9-£65
Venue Information
Royal Festival Hall
Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Waterloo 0.17 miles

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Strauss and Zemlinsky

R Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten (excerpts)
Zemlinsky A Florentine Tragedy (One-act opera)
(sung in German with English surtitles)

Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Heike Wessels Bianca
Sergei Skorokhodov Guido Bardi
Albert Dohmen Simone

Entranced and inspired by Oscar Wilde’s dark, death-ridden play, Alexander Zemlinsky conjured up his most colourful orchestral canvas in the one-act opera A Florentine Tragedy. Puccini claimed Zemlinsky’s most overtly Straussian score was 'a rival to Salome but more human – more real.' The narrative of infidelity and rapprochement wasn’t lost on Zemlinsky’s former lover Alma Schindler, who was outraged when she saw the Vienna première. Zemlinsky might not have found that ever-elusive fame and fortune with his opera, but he poured his all into it, revealing more about the troublesome Alma than any of her former lovers would dare.

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