An Authentic All-Berlioz Program
The historic Carnegie Hall warmly welcomes renowned conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique for a soul-stirring all-Berlioz program this fall. Using historically-informed techniques and period instruments, the world class ensemble will transport the audience back in time to present the French Romantic icon's soaring musical poetry in the authentic way it would have been heard in its day.
Together the ensemble will conjure the rushing string passages and wide, syncopated wind chords of the swashbuckling Berlioz's Le Corsaire Overture, before soaring to the serene heights of La Mort de Cleopatre's extraordinary harmonies and lush orchestral arrangements. French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot then joins proceedings, ending the evening with selections from Les Troyens, Part II, Berlioz's ambitious Grand Opera retelling of the fall of Troy inspired by Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid.