The MET Orchestra & Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Angel Blue, Russell Thomas
A host of musical highlights under the title "planet Shakespeare": Angel Blue sings selections from Verdi's Otello in a program that will also feature Tchaikovsky's romantic Romeo and Juliet Overture, music from West Side Story, and a European premiere. We will be hearing New York’s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under its principal conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Program
Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Matthew Aucoin
Lear Sketches (German premiere)
Peter Tschaikowsky
Romeo and Juliet. Fantasy Overture After Shakespeare
Giuseppe Verdi
Act IV from the opera Otello
Artist
Angel Blue Soprano (Desdemona)
Russell Thomas Tenor (Otello)
The MET Orchestra
Cooperation and partnership
Patrons of the Concert:
Ernst-Moritz Lipp and Angelika Lipp-Krüll