Abu Dhabi Classics has selected a particularly apt piece for its first young people’s concert of the new season, to be given the morning of 7 October at the Emirates Palace Auditorium: Richard Wagner’s charming Siegfried Idyll. Commemorating the birth of their son Siegfried, Wagner composed it for his wife Cosima’s birthday on Christmas Eve 1870 and first performed it for her the next morning at the couple’s Swiss country villa. The delicately scored piece, which quotes a lullaby written by Wagner the year before, is based on themes that would reappear in the “Ring” opera Siegfried, premiered in 1876 in his new Bayreuth Festspielhaus. The work is in safe hands in Abu Dhabi, performed by Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – voted the world’s finest in Gramophone magazine’s recent poll of international critics.
DO 07 OKT 10
11:30, Emirates Palace (Auditorium)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Jacob Slagter, Dirigent
Sprecher:Dominic Seldis
Young People's Concert
Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll
TICKETSDie Abu Dhabi Classics Academy begleitet die Konzertreihe mit speziellen Workshops und akademischen Vorträgen an Instituten und Universitäten in Abu Dhabi. Darüber hinaus wird im Rahmen eines Bildungsprogramms Schulklassen verschiedener Alterstufen theoretisches und praktisches Wissen aus der Welt der Musik vermittelt.
