Kirill Petrenko with Rachmaninoff’s “Francesca da Rimini”

Date & Time

Sat, Jan 18, 2025, 19:00

Venue

Philharmonie Berlin, Main Auditorium (Berlin)

Hatred, jealousy and loss: Sergei Rachmaninoff creates a dark world with powerful colours in his one-act opera Francesca da Rimini. Against this backdrop, the heroine’s brief happiness in love shines all the more brightly. Kirill Petrenko presents the impassioned score with acclaimed soloists in a concert performance. Sofia Gubaidulina’s work The Wrath of God is almost apocalyptically dramatic. And here, too, it is about the hatred that – says the composer – “grows in this world with such force and... Read full text

Keywords: Contemporary, Vocal Music

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Musicians

Berliner Philharmoniker	Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko	Conductor
Galina Cheplakova	Soprano
Dmytro Popov	Tenor
Dmitry Golovnin	Tenor
Vladislav Sulimsky	Bariton
Ilia Kazakov	Bass
Rundfunkchor Berlin	Choir
Gijs Leenaars	Chorus Master

Program

Samuel Barber	Adagio for Strings, op. 11
Sofia Gubaidulina	The Wrath of God
Sergei Rachmaninoff	Francesca da Rimini, op. 25

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