The Opera Orchestra: Samuel Barber with Guro Kleven Hagen Tickets

Carnegie Hall, New York, USA

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Important Info

Type: Classical Concert

City: New York, USA

Duration: 2h with 1 interval

Intervals: 1

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

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Overview

American and Finnish music with the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra.

It has not always been easy for American music to succeed in a European concert hall – but with few exceptions! Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto has won a place in many hearts and this melodious and delightfully dreamy violin concert can be experienced with the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra own concertmaster, Guro Kleven Hagen, as soloist.

When Guro Kleven Hagen was appointed concertmaster in 2018 at the age of 23, she was the youngest in Norway ever to hold this title. Apart from her job as concertmaster, Kleven Hagen also enjoys an illustrious career as a soloist and chamber musician.

In 2017, Finland celebrated 100 years of independence. In connection with the anniversary, a work by composer Magnus Lindberg, Tempus fugit, was performed. This 30 minute-long piece offers everything from Impressionist and light colours to rich melodic lines.

Another Finish composer, Jean Sibelius, was 52 years old when Finland became independent. He lived most of his life under Russian rule and was influenced by Russian music, which is expressed uniquely in his first symphonies. The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra will be performing the first of a total of seven symphonies. The performance guarantees to be mystical, dark and wild, or as a critic from the German paper Hamburger Nachrichten in 1900 put it: “His symphony, a work full of unrestrained strength, full of passionate vivacity and astonishing audacity is – to state the matter plainly – a remarkable work, steps out on new paths, or rather rushes forward like an intoxicated god.”

Venue Info

Carnegie Hall - New York
57th Street and Seventh Avenue

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1891, it is one of the most prestigious venues in the world for both classical music and popular music. Carnegie Hall has its own artistic programming, development, and marketing departments, and presents about 250 performances each season. It is also rented out to performing groups. The hall has not had a resident company since 1962, when the New York Philharmonic moved to Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall (renamed Avery Fisher Hall in 1973 and David Geffen Hall in 2015).

Carnegie Hall has 3,671 seats, divided among its three auditoriums.

Carnegie Hall contains three distinct, separate performance spaces.

Carnegie Hall is one of the last large buildings in New York built entirely of masonry, without a steel frame; however, when several flights of studio spaces were added to the building near the turn of the 20th century, a steel framework was erected around segments of the building. The exterior is rendered in narrow Roman bricks of a mellow ochre hue, with details in terracotta and brownstone. The foyer avoids typical 19th century Baroque theatrical style with the Florentine Renaissance manner of Filippo Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel: white plaster and gray stone form a harmonious system of round-headed arched openings and Corinthian pilasters that support an unbroken cornice, with round-headed lunettes above it, under a vaulted ceiling. The famous white and gold auditorium interior is similarly restrained. The firm of Adler & Sullivan of Chicago, noted for the acoustics of their theaters, were hired as consultant architects though their contributions are not known.