Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra - From Italy with Love
The Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
£16
£6 under 25s
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Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra - From Italy with Love
Conductor Jason Thornton
Puccini Capriccio Sinfonico
Puccini Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini
Respighi Fountains of Rome
Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Respighi Pines of Rome
Take a musical tour around late 19th-early 20th century Italy, soaking up the atmosphere with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the country’s leading non-professional symphony orchestras. An orchestral work by a young Giacomo Puccini introduces the concert before the intermezzo from his opera Manon Lescaut.
It’s then to a village square in rural Sicily for the famous Easter Sunday scene from Mascagni’s one-act opera. Tchaikovsky’s drama-soaked symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini is a story of passion, murder and damnation. Respighi’s masterful orchestration brings Rome’s history and landmarks to life in ravishing cinematic detail.
Four of the Fountains of Rome, including the celebrated Trevi Fountain, are depicted from dawn to dusk; while Pines begins as night falls over the pine grove of the Villa Borghese and ends with the rising sun on a Roman army marching along the Appian Way.
Running time approx. 120 minutes