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The Hallé

Carlo Rizzi conductor

Thursday 12 December 2019 7.30pm

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Event Timings 

Main Entrance Doors: 5.00pm
Auditorium Doors: 7.00pm
Concert Start: 7.30pm
Interval: 8.15pm
Second Half: 8.35pm
Concert Finish: 9.30pm

All timings are approximate and are subject to change.

The Hallé

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Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: scenes and dances 40′
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker: Act II 43′

Carlo Rizzi, renowned for outstanding opera performances, turns to ballet for his welcome return to the Hallé, conducting classic Russian masterpieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. In Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev composed full-blooded, dramatic music for Shakespeare’s characters; be it the passionate ardour of the doomed lovers or the arrogance of their feuding families. In complete contrast, Act II of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is set in the fairy-tale Land of Sweets. It’s a box of delights with characterful dances – Spanish, Arabian and Chinese, conjuring coffee, tea and chocolate – even in the Dance of the Reed Flutes (remember a certain fruit and nut bar?), the Waltz of the Flowers and, of course, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Concert sponsored by Wood.

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