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Kirill Petrenko with Rachmaninoff’s “Francesca da Rimini”

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Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 20:00
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 PhilharmonikerOrchestra
Kirill PetrenkoConductor
Galina CheplakovaSoprano
Dmytro PopovTenor
Dmitry GolovninTenor
Vladislav SulimskyBariton
Ilia KazakovBass
Rundfunkchor BerlinChoir
Gijs LeenaarsChorus Master

Program

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