PROGRAM
PAUL DUKAS The Sorcerer's Apprentice
CHARLES GOUNOD Roméo et Juliette (excerpts)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (excerpts)
JULES MASSENET Werther (excerpts)
CHARLES GOUNOD Faust (excerpts)
MAURICE RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and rising stars of the Curtis Opera Theatre in a musical tour of France. This delightful program of mischievous magic, childhood fairytales, and operatic jewels celebrates the music of Dukas, Gounod, Debussy, Massenet, and Ravel.
Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice captures the imagination as the spell of one inept magician’s apprentice goes chaotically awry. Selections from popular operas by Gounod, Debussy, and Massenet follow this spirited scherzo. Maurice Ravel’s charming Mother Goose Suite, a collection of five storybook miniatures, and Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2, a ravishing, romantic “choreographic symphony” in three exhilarating parts for orchestra and chorus, bring the evening to a thrilling close.