Unbridled Passions Berlioz 2022 - Summer Nights Les nuits d'été (lyrics in subtitles)

Les nuits d'été (Summer Nights), Op. 7
Villanelle 00:04
Le spectre de la rose 02:21
Sur les lagunes: Lamento (On the Lagoons: Lament) 08:28
Absence 14:13
Au cimetière: Clair de lune 19:12
L'île inconnue 24:04
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Unbridled Passions: featuring works by Hector Berlioz
FEATURING
The Philharmonic Orchestra
Lin Juan, Conductor
Teng Xiang Ting, Soprano
PROGRAMME
Les nuits d'été
Symphonie Fantastique
13 Sept 2022, 7:30 pm SGT
Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
TPO presents Unbridled Passions - selections from the oeuvre of French Romantic icon Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d'été (Summer Nights) and Symphonie fantastique.
Featuring acclaimed soprano Teng Xiang Ting, Les nuits d'été is a unique series of six songs with orchestra, an intimate, inspired introspection on love and loss, setting poems of Théophile Gautier to Berlioz’s music. It is a hidden gem, celebrating love, life, loss, and liberation.
In stark contrast, the semi-autobiographical Symphonie fantastique embodies the fiery young Frenchman’s infatuation with English Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson, hurling the audience headlong into a wild journey of opium dreams, open pastures, and the diabolical underworld.

[@MaestroWenarto]

brava for the soprano