Address
100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, Victoria, Australia
Event Date
Mar 16, 2020 18:30 - 20:30
There are 1001 reasons to fall in love with this music.
Great Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov lays the foundations for this bright, colourful and gorgeously textured evocation of the exotic.
She was the woman who spun her own fate from the threads of narrative: Scheherazade, the star and storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights. She famously escaped death by drawing her executioner further and further into the tale. It is a trait Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov would employ in the symphonic suite he named after the cunning narrator, with sweeping and immersive instrumentation.
Scheherazade was composed in 1888, and draws on Rimsky-Korsakov’s career as an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. He had a lifelong fascination with folklore and his role as an inspector of Naval bands gave him a long association with the ocean. The suite conjures the brine and the sea-spray that would accompany Sinbad on his many journeys, and brims with exoticism. Under the baton of Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, making his MSO debut, it will soar like the chronicles of old.
Special Features
Bar, Cafe, Carpark, Non Smoking, Parents Room, Public Toilet, Restaurant, Disabled access available, contact operator for details.
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