WAGNER Parsifal Act 3: Prelude and Good Friday Music
SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
DEBUSSY La Mer
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod
The Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted by its Chief Conductor Daniele Gatti, presents an evocative programme that bridges the intense, lyrical, and spiritual world of Richard Wagner with the rich timbral palette of the French tradition. The programme is structured around two cornerstone works of the Wagnerian repertoire, which open and close the evening: the Prelude and Act III of Parsifal, a score of profound beauty and symbolic depth, and Tristan und Isolde (Prelude and Liebestod), one of the supreme achievements of late Romanticism, in which Wagner pushed the musical expression of desire and absolute love to its limits, paving the way for twentieth-century musical language. We will also hear Camille Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1, performed by Gautier Capuçon, an innovative work in its form, conceived as a continuous musical discourse, combining lyricism, virtuosity, and a refined dramatic intensity. The programme is completed by La Mer by Claude Debussy, one of the great works of the twentieth century, in which the orchestra is transformed into a sonic landscape evoking the ever-changing motion of the sea, at times calm, at times tempestuous.
