Carlo Rizzi & Nicky Spence with WNO Orchestra
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Bernstein Agorawd Candide
Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Schubert Symffoni Rhif 9 The Great
Carlo Rizzi, one of the world’s leading operatic conductors and WNO Conductor Laureate, joins forces with Nicky Spence (The Makropulos Affair, Peter Grimes), one of our brightest young tenors who “combines a heroic tone and a poetic sensibility that takes your breath away” (The Times) and national but internationally recognised, WNO Orchestra.
This unforgettable concert of music storytelling will include the CandideOverture, from the lively operetta by arguably the greatest American composer of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein, Summer of 1915 by Barber, which will showcase soloist Nicky Spence and Schubert’s exquisite Ninth Symphony, nicknamed, ‘The Great’.
