The Cleveland Orchestra: CARMEN-SUITE
About this event
Bizet’s colorful and flamboyant opera Carmen, with its eye-popping portrayal of on-the-street living filled with smoking, fighting, and drinking women, scandalized Parisian audiences but became wildly famous for its music and emotional intensity.
Franz Welser-Möst offers a different look at this beloved work through a brilliant arrangement for string orchestra and percussion, created as a ballet score by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin for his dancer wife, prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. The intense passions of this famously tune-filled opera are revealed in unexpected detail across thirteen movements, just begging you to dance.
Programme
Concert – approx. 50 min
Repertoire
This concert was recorded live in March 2021 at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, OH.
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