ROMEO AND JULIET

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with a concert celebrating love in all its forms! Fauré's Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande (1898), both delicate and sensual, plunges us into Maeterlinck's mysterious world, where love is inextricably intertwined with tragic fate. Based on Shakespeare's literary masterpiece, Prokofiev's Suite from Romeo and Juliet evokes the all-consuming passion of the two star-crossed lovers. The music combines lyricism and exacerbated violence, to illustrate the intensity of this tragic drama. The three songs by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov, originally written for soprano Dawn Upshaw in 2002, are charming little gems inspired by poems by Sally Potter, Rosalía de Castro and Emily Dickinson.