Spring, the Sweet Spring
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Ballet music. Certificate 18. Winter exhales. The Earth gasps into life. The Rite of Spring welcomes in the vernal equinox, Siberian-style. Full of barbaric rituals and savage dances, the orchestra is turned by Stravinsky into a collective of cave people. Come and find out why it caused a riot at its Paris premiere in 1913. Shostakovich’s celebration takes on the form of a procession with his Third Symphony, ‘The First of May’, in a series of rio...
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1 dates (18 May - 18 May)
May
18
Sat
7:30 pm
The Bridgewater Hall
Manchester, United Kingdom
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