WAGNER: PASSION BEYOND REASON

Wednesday 28 January 2009 at 2.15pm

Symphony Hall, Birmingham +44 (0)121-780 3333

Andris Nelsons  conductor
Irène Théorin  soprano

Wagner: Tannhäuser - Overture and Venusberg Music 24'
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod 17'
Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, Siegfried’s Funeral March & Brünnhilde’s Immolation 41'

Andris Nelsons has already won great acclaim for his interpretations of Wagner's operas in Riga, and next year he makes his debut at the Bayreuth Festival. For his first CBSO Wagner outing, he has chosen contrasting extended sequences from three of the composer's greatest operas, culminating in the apocalyptic climax of the entire Ring cycle. Acclaimed Swedish soprano Iréne Theorin takes the roles of Isolde and Brünnhilde - two of the very greatest operatic heroines, both driven by a love more powerful than life itself.