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Theatro Municipal (São Paulo), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Starts at: 17:00

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Performers
Conductor: Ricardo Bologna
Orchestra: Municipal Symphony Orchestra
Piano: Paulo Alvares
Creators
Composer: György Ligeti
Composer: Iannis Xenakis
Composer: Marcos Balter
Composer: Witold Lutosławski
Programme
Iannis Xenakis: Psappha
György Ligeti: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Marcos Balter: Orum
Witold Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra
Overview

The Municipal Symphony Orchestra presents a program dedicated to great 20th-century composers, conducted by Ricardo Bologna and featuring pianist Paulo Álvares. A unique and immersive musical experience!

The Municipal Symphony Orchestra dedicates this program to some of the most important composers of the 20th century and invites percussionist and conductor Ricardo Bologna, a specialist in this type of repertoire, to conduct it. Iannis Xenákis was a Greek engineer, music theorist, and composer who became a naturalized Frenchman. Among his most important works is "Pleiades: Peaux," a piece for six percussionists. In it, Xenakis explores the full timbral richness of the instruments' membranes, creating rhythmic textures of great density and energy.

Another specialist in 20th-century works is the program's soloist: pianist Paulo Álvares, from Minas Gerais and based in Germany. He performs the Piano Concerto by Hungarian György Ligeti, a five-movement work written throughout the 1980s. Regarding the piece, Ligeti stated: "I present my artistic credo in the Piano Concerto : I demonstrate my independence from the criteria of the traditional avant-garde, as well as from the current postmodernism."

Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's musical language incorporates folk songs, twelve-tone serialism, atonal counterpoint, and improvisations, as well as elements of conventional harmony and melody. His Concerto for Orchestra, which closes the program, was written between 1950 and 1954, at the initiative of the artistic director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, Witold Rowicki, to whom it is dedicated.

Venue Info

Theatro Municipal (São Paulo) - Sao Paulo
Location   Praça Ramos de Azevedo, s/n

Welcome to one of Brazil's greatest opera houses. Theatro Municipal de São Paulo doors open to the city and the world, a stage prepared to create and deliver memorable and accessible experiences, welcoming classical and contemporary artistic expressions.

The luxurious building, visibly influenced by European opera houses, was built as an aspirational symbol of São Paulo's high society, which, with the abundance of the coffee cycle, desired a performance venue worthy of its European wealth and ambitions to host the great artists of lyrical music and theater.

The project, designed by the Ramos de Azevedo firm—in collaboration with Italians Cláudio Rossi and Domiziano Rossi—began in 1903 and was handed over to the city eight years later. In September 1911, the Municipal Theater opened to distinguished guests before a crowd of 20,000 people, dazzled by the pomp and spectacular lighting for the time—the building was the first to be fully powered by electricity.

The Municipal's stage featured the most important companies of the first half of the 20th century, featuring names such as Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas, Bidu Sayão, Arturo Toscanini, Camargo Guarnieri, Villa-Lobos, Francisco Mignone, Ana Pawlova, Arthur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Isadora Duncan, Nijinsky, and Baryshnikov, among many others. Always extending beyond the classical scene, it crowned its cosmopolitan vocation by hosting one of the most important events in the history of the arts in Brazil, the SEMANA DE 22 (WEEK OF '22), featuring Mário and Oswald de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, and many other celebrated young artists who launched the Brazilian modernist movement.

In its over 100-year history, three major renovations have preserved, renovated, and expanded the Theater, which now boasts a restored building. In 2012, the Praça das Artes facility was created to house artistic groups, the municipal music and dance schools, and the multiple activities of the Municipal Theater Complex.

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Starts at: 17:00
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