French conductor Patrick Souillot will lead the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) at the concert “A Night of Serenade” t at the city’s Opera House on October 8 (Photo courtesy of HBSO)
HCM City (VNA) –
French conductor Patrick Souillot will lead the concert “A Night of Serenade
Music” of Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and Puccini at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House
on October 8.
The night opens with
Dvorak’s Serenade for Wind Instruments, Cello and Double Bass, Op 44,
written in 1878 to honour Berlin music critic Louis Ehlert.
The premiere of the
composition took place at Prague’s Zofin in 1878 with Dvorak conducting.
The performance will be
followed by Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) by Italian composer
Puccini, who wrote it in only one night in 1890 as a response to the death of
the Duke of Savoy.
The event will close
with Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for strings in C Major, op. 48.
The composer created the
four-movement serenade in 1880 to dedicate to his idol, Mozart.
It premiered at St
Petersburg in 1881 and became one of the most famous serenade repertoires in
the world.
In 1934, the work was used
by choreographer George Balanchine, known as father of American ballet, for his
ballet Serenade, earning fame worldwide.
Conductor Souillot, who
will lead the the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera at the concert,
studied conducting with American maestro Leonard Bernstein in 1986.
Since 1989, he has been
music director of L’Orchestre, the symphony orchestra of the University of
Grenoble in France.
He has worked with numerous
orchestras in Europe and Asia, and staged many operas for opera houses in
Europe.
The concert will begin at
8pm at 7 Lam Son Square in District 1. Tickets are available at the venue or
at www.ticketbox.vn.-VNA