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Concertgebouw Orchestra Essentials: Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Concertgebouw Orchestra Essentials: Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Musicians

  • Concertgebouw Orchestra
  • Nationaal Vrouwen Jeugdkoor
  • Iván Fischer conductor
  • Mirella Hagen soprano
  • Olivia Vermeulen mezzo-soprano

Works

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    parts from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 61

  • This concert has no intermission

Essentials introduces you to Mendelssohn’s imaginative music to Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Iván Fischer.


Concertgebouworkest Essentials

The Essentials series introduces you to the masterpieces you will be happy to know, performed by the world-famous Concertgebouw Orchestra. At Essentials we welcome a new generation of music lovers, and the concerts typically have a pleasant informal atmosphere.

Mendelssohn

Even as a teenager, Mendelssohn was inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, composing a wonderful overture in which we hear the fairies flitting about. Years later, he added incidental music which is highly imaginative and captures the dreamlike atmosphere of the narrative like no other. One would hardly have suspected that Mendelssohn was ill and would die just five years later – so full of joy and life is the music. This performance features the heavenly voices of the National Women’s Youth Choir, soprano Mirella Hagen and mezzo-soprano Olivia Vermeulen.

This concert starts at 9 p.m. with a lively introduction by honorary guest conductor Iván Fischer (in Dutch).

  • Genre

    Orchestra, Vocal Music

  • Organizer

    Concertgebouworkest

  • Thanks to:

    ING, Unilever and Booking.com Global Partners Concertgebouw Orchestra

Tickets

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  • Drinks are included in the price of admission. When the price category 'Online sprint under 30' is available, you can order 1 ticket 4 hours before the start of a concert.

  • Prices do not include transaction fee: € 5 per order.