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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: Mei-Ann Chen
Violin: Guido Sant`Anna
Orchestra: Municipal Symphony Orchestra
Creators
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Composer: An-Lun Huang
Composer: Kaija Saariaho
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Programme
An-Lun Huang: Saibei Dance, excerpt from “Saibei Suite” no. 2, op. 21
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no. 1 in D major, Op.19
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird: Suite
Kaija Saariaho: Nymphéa Reflection
Overview

Taiwanese conductor Mei-Ann Chen, now based in the United States, is music director of the Chicago Sinfonietta and conductor laureate of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. She leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on a challenging program that begins with the Saibei Dance by Chinese composer An-Lun Huang. Saibei is a region in northern China, including part of Mongolia, and the dance is part of the Saibei Suite No. 2 , a work that reflects the traditional music of the region.

Two Russians who are among the most important names in 20th-century composition also feature on the program. A masterpiece by a young composer, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 was written a few years after completing his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, but its premiere would only take place in 1923 in Paris, in a concert that would mark the conducting debut of his compatriot Stravinsky. Of the latter, the program features the suite—that is, the concert version—from the ballet The Firebird , a work that made Stravinsky famous almost overnight in 1910 Paris.

Between the two composers, the refined music of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, stands out. Nymphéa Reflection arose from the idea of ​​arranging a string quartet for orchestra. However, the work took a different path. Divided into six sections, it simulates some electronic processing through orchestration, and in the final section, includes a poem by Arseny Tarkovsky whispered by the musicians.

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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