⋆⋆⋆⋆ ''A beautifully judged program.'' - The Guardian Principal Guest conductor Gianandrea Noseda leads the LSO in a brilliant concert of Beethoven and Prokofiev.
Noseda conducts Beethoven & Prokofiev
London Symphony Orchestra
Music
Schumann Symphony No. 2
London Symphony Orchestra
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Subscribe NowThe opera Genoveva evokes a medieval legend, and is somewhat of a rarity, with the Overture often played alone. Heavily influenced by Wagner, the music sets the mood for the rather dark and gloomy story that follows. Berlioz's setting of six poems by Théophile Gautier consider love from different angles, principally the loss of love. Coming at a time when his marriage to the actress Harriet Smithson was all but over, the music seems to echo his sense of the loss of his youthful dreams.
Cast & Crew
(Conductor), Ann Hallenberg (Mezzo-Soprano), (Composer), (Composer), (Director)