Concertgebouw Orchestra featuring Joyce DiDonato

Date & Time

Thu, Jan 9, 2025, 20:15

Venue

Het Concertgebouw, Main Hall (Amsterdam)

Musical tales of boundless passion and madness come to life. Hector Berlioz explored his obsessive love in the Symphonie Fantastique. Joyce DiDonato sings Into the Fire, Jake Heggie’s bittersweet song cycle about the French artist Camille Claudel, whose affair with her associate Auguste Rodin proved to be her undoing. Such a programme calls for a conductor who knows how to deliver drama in a perfectly measured way. Sir Antonio Pappano manages to lead the Concertgebouw Orchestra on this emotional roller... Read full text

Keywords: Symphony Concert, Vocal Music

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Musicians

Concertgebouw Orchestra
Antonio Pappano	Conductor
Joyce DiDonato	Mezzo-Soprano

Program

Camille Claudel: Into the Fire	Heggie
Symphonie Fantastique, H 48, op. 14	Hector Berlioz

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