Singer

In his Second Symphony, Mahler constructs a universe all his own, exploring themes of death and afterlife using a massive orchestra, offstage brass and percussion, chorus and vocal soloists. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen guides listeners on this journey from the great, tragic opening march, through pastoral dances and gentle songs to a final tableau of trumpet calls, percussive thunderbolts and the hymn of resurrection.

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Mahler Resurrection

Symphony Center

Joined by renowned soloists and commanding colossal vocal and instrumental means, Rafael Payare conducts a monument of the post-Romantic repertoire: Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder.

Payare Conducts Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder

Place des Arts

Crude as a gut punch, tender as a kiss, Verdi’s Requiem translates the ancient Latin mass for the dead into the vivid and visceral idiom of Italian opera, bringing divine scripture to the streets, and vice versa. The conductor Hans von Bülow dismissed the Requiem as Verdi’s “latest opera, in ecclesiastical vestments,” but his friend Johannes Brahms disagreed: “Only a genius could have written such a work.

Salonen Conducts Verdi’s Requiem

Davies Symphony Hall

Former TSO Music Director Jukka-Pekka Saraste presents Mozart’s final words, his haunting Requiem, famously featured in the film Amadeus. Experience the profound emotions of this monumental work, powerfully delivered by the voices of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

Saraste Conducts Mozart’s Requiem

David Pecaut Square

Erich Korngold’s Die tote Stadt (“The Dead City”) is an incredibly tender work, embodying the twilight of the Romantic era. Korngold, a remarkable prodigy who later became one of Hollywood’s most important composers, began the opera when he was only 19 and completed it at age 23. It opened simultaneously in December 1920 in Cologne and Hamburg and became one of the biggest operatic successes of the era. The opera’s theme of struggling with the memory of a lost loved one undoubtedly resonated with audiences still traumatized by the recent catastrophe of World War I.

Karen Cargill

Mezzo-soprano

Events

23 - 25 May, 2024

Mahler Resurrection · Chicago Symphony Orchestra

11 - 13 Sep, 2024

Payare Conducts Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder · Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

19 - 21 Sep, 2024

Salonen Conducts Verdi’s Requiem · San Francisco Symphony

9 - 12 Oct, 2024

Saraste Conducts Mozart’s Requiem · Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2025

Andris Nelsons conducts Korngold Die tote Stadt · Boston Symphony Orchestr

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