Thomas Adès conducts Adès and Stravinsky with Danielle de Niese, narrator, Edgaras Montvidas, tenor and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, James Burton, conductor
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
English composer Thomas Adès returns to lead two works from The Dante Project, a three-part ballet score from 2021 based on Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century Italian epic poem Commedia. The piece was written to mark the 700th anniversary of the poet’s death. Igor Stravinsky’s mythology-based Perséphone for narrator, tenor, chorus, and orchestra is a magically surreal neoclassical retelling of the goddess Persephone’s abduction by Hades, god of the underworld.
Sung in French with English supertitles
Friday afternoon’s appearance by Edgaras Montvidas is supported by a gift in loving memory of Alan J. Dworsky.
Thomas Adès, conductor
Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Danielle de Niese, narrator
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
The Boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School
James Kennerly, director
STRAVINSKY Perséphone
Intermission
Thomas ADÈS Inferno Suite
Thomas ADÈS Paradiso
Performance Details
Mar 25, 2023, 8:00pm EDT
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
Perséphone
Stravinsky himself conducted the American premiere of Perséphone with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall in March 1935.
Inferno Suite, from Dante
Thomas Adès wrote the three-part orchestral score Dante in 2019-21 for the ballet The Dante Project created by choreographer Wayne McGregor for the UK’s Royal Ballet.
Paradiso, from Dante
Thomas Adès wrote the three-part orchestral score Dante in 2019-21 for the ballet The Dante Project created by choreographer Wayne McGregor for the UK’s Royal Ballet.
