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The Wooden Prince
The music
The performers
- Edward Gardner conductor **
- Lucy Crowe soprano
- Agnieszka Rehlis mezzo-soprano
- Kostas Smoriginas bass
- London Philharmonic Choir
Get ready for surging emotions, burning colours and glorious singing.
Bartók’s ballet is a fairytale, for sure, but this is 20th-century Hungary, where folklore has a habit of growing teeth and claws. Edward Gardner shares the choral ecstasies of Szymanowski’s gorgeous Stabat Mater, and champions the utterly original music of Vítězslava Kaprálová. Expect surging emotions, burning colours and glorious singing; but above all, prepare to be transported.
* Supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
** Edward Gardner’s position in the LPO is generously supported by Aud Jebsen.
Lucy Crowe [is] a singer who seems to be at the top of her form, her voice sure yet ethereal [...] Utterly transfixing.
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