Opera in Concert: Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Mathieu Dufour, flute
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Falk Struckmann, bass-baritone
Wednesday, January 27, 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
| Main Floor | $100 · $90 · $76 · $48 |
| Mezzanine | $80 · $70 · $10 |
| Balcony | $56 · $48 · $30 · $10 |
UMS’s history with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra dates back to 1892, when the orchestra was in its second season and UMS in its 14th. Now, some 107 years and more than 200 performances later, the relationship continues to grow. The CSO’s emeritus conductor, Pierre Boulez, returns to Ann Arbor for the first time since 1972 as part of the CSO’s month-long celebration of his 85th birthday. Boulez, a composer, conductor, tireless advocate for new music, and one of the most important musical and intellectual figures of our time, was invited to the US by George Szell and subsequently held posts with The Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, where he succeeded Leonard Bernstein. The founder of one of the world’s finest contemporary music ensembles, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Boulez conducts a stunning program that includes a rare concert performance of Béla Bartók’s one-act opera, Bluebeard’s Castle, in which the lovely Judith opens the seven doors in her new husband’s castle, discovering something horrible and terrifying behind each. The opera will be performed with simultaneous projected translations.
Program
· Maurice Ravel : Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914-17)
· Marc-André Dalbavie : Flute Concerto (2006)
· Bartók : Bluebeard’s Castle (1911)
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Sponsored by The Linda and Maurice Binkow Philanthropic Fund and The Charles H. Gershenson Trust, and an Anonymous Donor. |