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- Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 2013 Season
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
February - December 2013
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has created a spectacular season of
musical entertainment for you in 2013, from such screen and
symphony events as Disney Live in Concert
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
to timeless classics like Elgar's Enigma
Variations. Continue your Lord of the Rings
experience with The Lord
of the Rings: The Two Towers as the Orchestra plays to the
complete film, screened in hi-def.
Single tickets to all MSO events available from Monday 19
November, 2012
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Events in Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 2013 Season
Bach and Schubert Masterpieces
It’s the combination of the epic and the song-like which makes Schubert’s Ninth Symphony unique.18 May 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
Tribute to the Songwriters
Following his sell-out success in the music of George Gershwin, Bramwell Tovey returns to MSO Pops with this tribute to his favorite songwriters.25, 26 May 2013
Price Range: $59 - $139
Appalachian Spring
Two landmark scores from the world of ballet frame this thrilling program.6, 7 June 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
Night On Bald Mountain
From the soulful Prelude to Mussorgsky’s opera to the gleaming conclusion of Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy, this journey through the world of Russian music is a compelling concert experience.15, 17 June 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
Rachmaninov and Elgar
‘I have worked at fever heat and the thing is tremendous in energy,’ Elgar said of his Second Symphony.29 June 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Following the 2012 presentations of The Fellowship of the Ring, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra returns with the second instalment of Peter Jackson’s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy.12, 13, 14 July 2013
Price Range: $69 - $149
The Passion Of Tristan And Isolde
A giant of his age, Richard Wagner is one of the most widely-discussed cultural figures in history.18, 19 July 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
Simone Young Conducts Mahler 5
For all its moments of tenderness and radiance, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is, in the composer’s words, ‘a foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound.’27, 29 July 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
Mozart And Strauss Favourites
A rich exploration of musical contrasts.1, 2 August 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
The Rite Stuff: Beyond The Stage
The Rite of Spring emerged from a period of intense creative ferment.6, 10, 13 August 2013
Price Range: FREE
The Rite Stuff: The Firebird
Stravinsky’s father was a singer with the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, and his family knew Tchaikovsky personally.7 August 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
The Rite Stuff: Petrushka
‘I had a vision of a puppet, suddenly endowed with life…’10 August 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
The Rite Stuff: The Rite of Spring
From the opening bars of The Rite of Spring, the audience at the first performance grew restive, until something like a full-scale riot occurred.13 August 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
Adams Conducts Adams
One of the world’s greatest composers makes his first Australian concert appearance with a violinist whose ‘silkily and sensuously ravishing’ playing (Seattle Times) has taken the world by storm.29, 31 August 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
Verdi’s Requiem
Verdi’s Requiem possesses a unique theatrical power, from the terrified cry of the chorus in the Dies irae to the soprano’s hushed, hopeful prayer in the Libera me.6, 7, 9 September 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
Elgar’s Enigma Variations
Renowned for his mastery of British music, Sir Andrew Davis conducts the hugely evocative Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and follows them with Elgar’s first concert triumph, the Enigma Variations.14 September 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
All-Beethoven Program
A new century, and a new musical voice, dawn with the opening of Beethoven’s First Symphony of 1800.27, 30 September 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
Disney’s Fantasia Live in Concert
Experience Disney’s groundbreaking marriage of symphonic music and animation!5, 6 October 2013
Price Range: $59 - $139
Dvorák’s New World
Stravinsky’s new world of sacred sound meets Dvořák’s reflections on his stay in the United States in this thrilling season finale.5, 6, 7 December 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
Russian Masterpieces
We travel to a darker, more conflicted Russia for Shostakovich’s masterful symphony.14, 15, 16 November 2013
Price Range: $55 - $150
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