Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven's music to Egmont and Grieg's music to Peer Gynt
When:
Thursday, Oct 19, 2017 8:00p -
10:00p
Thursday, Oct 19, 2017 8:00p -
10:00p
Where:
Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-4511
Admission:
$30
Categories:
Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/88603
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Bill Barclay and his creative team return to join BSO Assistant Conductor Ken-David Masur for an imaginative treatment of Grieg's music for Ibsen's fantastical folk-play Peer Gynt. Rough and rustic, negligent and occasionally criminal, Peer Gynt undergoes many adventures-among them kidnapping his erstwhile fiancée, encountering the Mountain King and begetting a son by the king's daughter, traveling in North Africa, and sidestepping the Devil. Opening the program is Beethoven's incidental music for Goethe's tragedy Egmont, featuring soprano and narrator along with the orchestra, and best-known for its overture, which is frequently heard on its own. The play tells of the Flemish Count Egmont's refusal to relinquish his ideal of freedom in his struggle against the tyrannical Duke of Alba.