4
spacer
spacer
BSO Mobile Club:
Text "BSO" at 22122
or Enroll Online!
spacer
Follow Us On:
Facebook Twitter Youtube
spacer
Podcasts / RSS
Access our large library of audio and video podcasts!
   BSO Podcast
   Boston Pops Podcast
   bso
   bso
spacer
spacer
Opening Night at Symphony

Performance Date:

All-Wagner Program
Audio 
Act 1 Prelude and "Was duftet doch der Flieder" (Hans Sachs Monologue) from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Ride of the Valkyries, Wotan's Farewell, and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre
Overture and "Die Frist ist um" (The Dutchman's Monologue) from The Flying Dutchman

spacer
About the Music
[Bryn Terfel]

In a rare U.S. concert performance—and his first Symphony Hall appearance with the BSO since its Opening Night concert in 1997— superstar singer Bryn Terfel joins Music Director James Levine to open the 2010-11 season with a powerful all-Wagner program featuring the Welsh bass baritone in excerpts from The Flying Dutchman, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and, in a preview of his upcoming Metropolitan Opera appearances in the composer’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre. Filling out the program, Maestro Levine leads the BSO in a selection of Wagner concert favorites, including the Flying Dutchman Overture, “Magic Fire Music,” and “Ride of the Valkyries.”

Patrons wanting to buy Benefactor tickets can contact Nina Jung, Director of Development Events and Volunteer Outreach, via email at njung@bso.org or by phone at 617-638-9423 (September - June) and 413-637-5158 (July-August during Tanglewood).


Opening Night Partner


spacer
spacer
Opening Night at Symphony
Boston Symphony Orchestra
October 2, 2010 6:00 PM
Symphony Hall
Boston, Massachusetts
$75.00  - $2,500.00
Bryn Terfel
The Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel rose to prominence when he won the Lieder Prize in the 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. In 2003, Bryn was awarded a CBE for services to Opera in the Queen’s New Year Honours list and received the Queen’s Medal for Music in 2006. He is also the last recipient of the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg.
James Levine
James Levine made his BSO debut in April 1972 and became music director in the fall of 2004, having been named music director designate in October 2001.