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Music Director Perry So Opens his first season at Woolsey Hall with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, known best for its triumphant Ode to Joy.

Maestro So says, “We’re kicking off with Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, his great 9th symphony in its 200th anniversary year: a deep dive into the unifying joy that all of us find in music. This piece has taken generations through its harrowing journey in oppressive darkness, holding out false promises of an Eden that never materializes, until a voice pulls us back from the brink and shows us the way out of despair through community and through art. I love that this piece brings solace in bereavement at the same moment that it calls for a radical egalitarianism in art. It says to us: “since we are equally human in joy and sadness, together let’s choose the joy that reminds us how much we all share.”

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Beethoven’s Ninth | Ode to Joy!

Yale University

Tonight, the “Prologue” of Wagner’s masterpiece The Ring of the Nibelung sets the mighty saga in motion and prepares you for what is to come: the conflict between love and power, and, ultimately, redemption through love. You’ll be plunged into the depths of the Rhine and hear the seductive siren song of the Rhine maidens; shudder at the curse placed on the possessor of all-power-giving ring of gold; fear for the folly of the gods as they traverse the rainbow bridge to enter their Valhalla palace — not knowing the doom that awaits them. With English supertitles.



Annie Rosen

Mezzo-soprano

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Sep 22, 2024

Beethoven’s Ninth | Ode to Joy! · New Haven Symphony Orchestra

1 - 4 May, 2024

Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold · Dallas Symphony Orchestra

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