Name: Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty
Start: 2023-11-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Roy Thomson Hall

Organization

Conductor

Maxim Emelyanychev

Instrumentalist

Michael Sweeney

Bassoon

Orchestra

Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty

Toronto

Canada

Roy Thomson Hall

Public

Hansel and Gretel

Bassoon concerto

The Sleeping Beauty (suite), Op.66a

Approved

Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty: Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck (+2 More)

Tchaikovsky’s delight for his original ballet score for The Sleeping Beauty, and his desire to adapt it into an orchestral suite, languished due to the monumental task of editing down the volume of enchanting numbers. It was not published in suite form until after his death. Your Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs the beloved suite as compiled by guest conductor Maxim Emelyanchev, revered for its dramatic fantasy, colourful orchestration, and enduring charm. A second fantasy plays across the stage with the prelude to Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera, Hansel and Gretel. The charming score, adapted from the Brothers Grimm story, is brought to life in the leitmotifs of the characters, from the lilting innocence of the children to the dissonant chords of the evil witch. Also on the program, Toronto Symphony Orchestra Principal Bassoon Michael Sweeney performs the hauntingly beautiful Bassoon Concerto by Italian-Canadian composer Marjan Mozetich. In 2003, Sweeney commissioned and premièred the intriguing soundscape, which merges new concepts with the familiar.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble