Simone Young Conducts Music from Wagner's Die Walküre

Presented by San Francisco Symphony

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Completed in 1856, the first act of Wagner’s Die Walküre weaves the enrapturing music of Siegmund and Sieglinde into a love so powerful, so intoxicating, it sets into motion a whopping eleven and a half hours of opera. The second of the four Ringoperas, Die Walküre premiered in 1870 at the National Theatre in Munich with the father of Richard Strauss leading the horn section. Over the coming years, the younger Strauss followed his father into that very same opera house, first as an audience member, then as a conductor, and later as a composer. Strauss achieved a level of glory seldom experienced by any composer until 1943 when the National Theatre fell to allied bombs; soon, many of the monuments to German culture—and to Strauss’s life—followed. At the end of the War, the brokenhearted 80-year-old issued his lament to a lost civilization: Metamorphosen.

Please note that the conductor for this program has changed. Conductor Antonio Pappano has withdrawn due to commitments at the Royal Opera House.

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Program Items

R. Strauss Metamorphosen
Wagner Act I from Die Walküre

Performers

Simone Young Conductor
Emily Magee Soprano
Stuart Skelton Tenor
Ain Anger Bass

Davies Symphony Hall

Davies Symphony Hall

201 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States