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Biennale of the Berliner Philharmoniker
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A sensational moment: The 19-year-old Lili Boulanger wins the prestigious Prix de Rome with her cantata Faust et Hélène, becoming the first-ever female prizewinner. Poetic, sensuous and richly colourful, she describes Faust selling his soul in order to meet the beautiful Helen. In his symphonie dramatique Roméo et Juliette, Hector Berlioz brings one of literature’s greatest love stories to life through shimmering orchestral colours. François-Xavier Roth opens the programme with Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen: a work at once sonorous and fragile, in which the composer mourned the devastation of the Second World War.
Artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
François-Xavier Roth conductor
Véronique Gens soprano (Hélène)
Julien Behr tenor (Faust)
Jean-Sébastien Bou baritone (Méphistophélès)
Programme
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
Hector Berlioz
Roméo et Juliette, op. 17: Roméo seul
Hector Berlioz
Roméo et Juliette, op. 17: La Reine Mab, ou la Fée des Songes
Interval
Lili Boulanger
Faust et Hélène
Véronique Gens soprano, Julien Behr tenor, Jean-Sébastien Bou baritone
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Duration ca. 1 hour and 45 minutes (incl. 20 minutes interval)
Dates and tickets
Main Auditorium
28 to 89 €
Introduction
19:15
Series I: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Also available in the Biennale package
Main Auditorium
28 to 89 €
Introduction
19:15
Series K: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Also available in the Biennale package
Main Auditorium
28 to 89 €
Introduction
18:15
Series N: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Also available in the Biennale package
Background
Not of this world
A portrait of the composer Lili Boulanger
Fate dealt Lili Boulanger a cruel hand. The first woman to win the coveted Prix de Rome, she was only nineteen when she effortlessly outclassed every male entrant in the 1913 competition; but within a mere five years, she was dead. A portrait of an exceptionally gifted musician
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