Organization

Conductor

Lidiya Yankovskaya

Stage director

Isabella Bywater

Video designer

Roberto Vitalini

Singer

Soprano

Nicole Chevalier

Lighting designer

Jon Driscoll

English National Opera

Orchestra

ENO Orchestra

Polish

Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs

London

United Kingdom

London Coliseum

Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs: Symfonia pieśni żałosnych No.3 Op. 36 Henryk Górecki

Public

Symphony of Sorrowful Songs No.3 Op. 36

English

Approved

III. Lento—Cantabile-semplice
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Music
SONG
III. Lento—Cantabile-semplice
ARTIST
Beth Gibbons, The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUM
Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony

Beth Gibbons / Penderecki / Górecki - Symphony No. 3 Final Movement [English Subtitles]

A meaningful meditation on motherhood, love and loss, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs adapts texts in Polish taken from sources spanning the centuries, giving perspectives from both a mother having lost their child, and a child separated from their parents.

Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) broke records upon its release in 1992 and became a critical sensation, becoming the best selling contemporary work of our time and cementing itself as one of modern classical music’s finest compositions. 

Isabelle Bywater, designer of ENO’s beloved production of La bohème, returns to direct this unprecedented staged production of Górecki’s beloved work.

Russian-American conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya makes her ENO debut to conduct the full force of the ENO Orchestra in performing this transitional work in Henryk Górecki’s catalogue of works: striking a delicate balance between his roots in serialism and the emotional vulnerability of his later compositions.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble