Featured Artist
Fabio Luisi
Here’s a program that can take you from surging power and passion to the tenderest of emotions, music so profoundly affecting you’ll find yourself leaning in, eyes closed, as it washes over and through you. This performance features two of the most beautiful passages from Wagner’s opera Parsifal, the soulful “Good Friday Spell” and the achingly beautiful, otherworldly Prelude, and Bruckner’s mighty Seventh Symphony, dedicated to, and inspired by, Wagner.
Wagner’s Parsifal embodies the struggle between soul and flesh, chronicling the tale of an Arthurian knight in search of religious artifacts, whose quest for holiness is breached by the temptations of sorceresses. The music beautifully captures the emotions of a pure heart in search of the world hereafter while grappling with earthly seductions. These passages from Wagner’s soaring opera form the perfect introduction to Bruckner’s Seventh, the work that made this composer an overnight success at the age of 60. Extraordinary for its soaring lyricism and emotional depth, the Seventh is counted by BBC Music Magazine as one of “The 20 Greatest Symphonies of All Time”—one for your bucket list!
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Program
Wagner
Prelude to Parsifal
Wagner
“Good Friday Spell,” from Parsifal
Bruckner
Symphony No. 7
Approximate Duration
includes intermission
