Philharmonia Orchestra: Salonen conducts in London

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Salonen conducts in London

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 16 May 2013 7:30pm

Esa-Pekka Salonen

conductor

Irina Brown

director

Louis Price

set and video designer

Kevin Treacy

lighting designer

Ryan McKinny

The Entertainer

Allan Clayton

Zoologist

Richard Angas

Orango

Elisabeth Meister

Susanna

Peter Hoare

Paul Mache

Ashley Riches

bass/voice from the crowd

Philharmonia Voices

Shostakovich	Orango (orch. Gerard McBurney)
Shostakovich	Symphony No. 4

Orango is an unfinished satirical opera by Shostakovich, sketched while he was writing Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. He and his librettists conceived ‘a political lampoon against the bourgeois press’ involving a human-ape hybrid (!), but when the librettists failed to deliver their script in time for the planned 15th anniversary of the Revolution, the whole thing was dropped. Of the projected Prologue and three acts, only the 40-minute Prologue was completed in piano vocal score, which was discovered as recently as 2004 in a Moscow archive and subsequently orchestrated by the British composer Gerard McBurney. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the world première with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in December 2011.

Sung in Russian with English surtitles; the performance of Orango will be semi-staged

Part of Southbank Centre's The Rest Is Noise, inspired by Alex Ross' book "The Rest is Noise"

This concert is supported by the Meyer Foundation