Name: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Start: 2024-02-15T20:00:00
Location: Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Alisa Weilerstein

Jader Bignamini

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

The fall of patriarchal power through a fragmented journey through King Lear's memory is the premise that sustains this contemporary perspective on the Shakespearean classic, where the internal confrontations between father and daughter and the consequences of power take center stage. Among them, a young figure—the jester, the echo, the bridge—bursts forth with truths that can no longer be silenced because in Lear, time stops moving; it repeats itself, dissolves, and opens like a wound that transforms the old King's memory into a battlefield.

Lear

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Don't miss the "new generation's cello superstar” (Agence France-Presse) when Alisa Weilerstein makes her Arsht Center debut as soloist with the acclaimed Detroit Symphony Orchestra, led by music director Jader Bignamini.