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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Puccini: Suor Angelica (semi-staged)
One World Symphony celebrates the Halloween
season with a program featuring music of the diabolical and
the divine.
The journey begins with Hector Berlioz's masterpiece Symphonie
Fantastique, which was revolutionary in its vivid musical
depiction of a dramatic story of love, murder, obsession,
execution, and damnation. The incomparable "Witches'
Sabbath" and "The Scaffold March" are perennial
favorites of audiences.
While Berlioz's Symphonie Fantstique is
volatile and tempestuous, Suor Angelica may be Puccini's
most sublime and pastoral opera. The opera centers around
a redemptive story of a nun driven to suicide. Through poignant
and moving music, the opera explores the themes of grief
and spiritual love.
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