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BBC SO/Wigglesworth

,Barbican Hall
A portrait of Rachel Nicholls wearing a floral velvet blazer

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his own symphonic shortcut through the culmination to Wagner’s Ring and Schoenberg’s seminal monodrama Erwartung.

In the last instalment of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung, a world of greed and corruption ends and we glimpse a radiant dawn – the possibility of a new, better world taking its place. It is the work in which Wagner beat the ‘grand opera’ tradition at its own game and wrote the best orchestral music of his career. But at five hours, it’s also rather long. Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his own reduced symphonic journey through the opera’s essential, world-changing moments.

Before Wagner’s message of hope for a new dawn, we get a glimpse of his most intense vision of romantic love and Schoenberg’s striking mono-dramatic monument to modernism, Erwartung. 

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The performance will finish at approximately 9.30pm. It includes a 20 minute interval.

Programme

  • Wagner   Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
  • Schoenberg   Erwartung
  • Wagner   Twilight of the Gods - A Symphonic Journey (arr Wigglesworth)

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • Ryan Wigglesworth   conductor
  • Rachel Nicholls   soprano

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Barbican Hall

Location
The Barbican Hall is located within the main Barbican building. Head to Level G and follow the signs to find your seating level. 

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

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