Eternal Orlando - Orchestre Métropolitain

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Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is a timeless character. Eternally young, he changes lives and genders but remains fascinated by art. This theatrical adaptation—incorporating symphonic music and directed by Lorraine Pintal—delves into the evolution of music.

Description

The orchestra will accompany Orlando throughout his travels and romantic escapades, from the court of Elizabeth I, with music from the time of Handel to tsarist Russia with Tchaikovsky.

Éternel Orlando

Conductor : Naomi Woo
Director : Lorraine Pintal
Playwright : Michaël Rolli
Cello : Seth Parker Woods
Orlando : Rachel Graton, Orlando
Vita Sackville : Cynthia Wu-Maheux
Princess Sacha : Sarah Laurendeau
Queen and Archduke : Marcel Pomerlo
Narration : Fabrice Yvanoff Sénat

Concert programme

  • Claudio Monteverdi
    Orfeo, Prologue
     
  • Georg Friedrich Handel
    Royal Fireworks Music, Ouverture et La Paix
     
  • Joseph Haydn
    Symphonie n0 96 « Le Miracle », Vivace
     
  • Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
    Serenade for strings, Élégie
     
  • Erik Satie
    Gymnopedie n0 1
     
  • Ernest Chausson
    Poème de l’amour et de la mer, Interlude
     
  • Nathalie Joachim
    Cello Concerto (Canadian premiere, co-commissioned by OM, Spoleto Festival and New York Philharmonic)

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