NSO: Karina Canellakis conducts 'Tristan und Isolde' & 'The Poem of Ecstasy' | Alban Gerhardt plays Dvořák
$17-$114
- Alban Gerhardt, cello
- Karina Canellakis, conductor
Richard Wagner — Prelude and "Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde, WWV 90
Alexander Scriabin — Le Poème de l'extase ("The Poem of Ecstasy"), Op. 54
Karina Canellakis takes on feats of musical storytelling in this visionary program. Excerpts from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde capture a passion more powerful than death itself; Scriabin's symphonic Poem of Ecstasy intoxicates listeners with a whirlwind of color and perfume.
Alban Gerhardt writes that Dvořák's famous Cello Concerto showcases his instrument "at its best, as the melodic, sensual instrument it is, with a beautiful human voice which can whisper, cry, long—but also become angry and scream or threaten" with "fireworks and impressive passages."
Runs Apr. 10-12.
About Alban Gerhardt, cello
About Karina Canellakis, conductor
Internationally acclaimed for her emotionally charged performances, technical command, and interpretive depth, Karina Canellakis has become one of the most in-demand conductors of her generation. She is the chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The first woman to conduct the First Night of the BBC Proms in London, in 2019 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, she returned to the Proms in 2022. She was also the first woman to conduct the Nobel Prize Concert with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in 2018.
https://karinacanellakis.com/Concert Hall at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F St NWWashington, DC 20566
United States
https://www.kennedy-center.org/visit/exploring-our-spaces/concert-hall/