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Brighton Dome Concert Hall
Church Street
Brighton and Hove
East Sussex
BN1 1UD
England
Tickets
Prices: From £15 / Under 30s from £10 / £1 child tickets
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Book Tickets
Programme
Georges Bizet – Carmen Suite no.1
Dmitry Shostakovich – Suite from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Romeo and Juliet (fantasia-overture), TH 42
Kurt Weill – September Song
Kurt Weill – Surabaya Johnny
Kurt Weill – Speak Low
Performers
Jacqui Dankworth – mezzo-soprano
Geoffrey Paterson – Conductor
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
For Valentine’s Day we’re gunning for the bad girls and heartbreakers, from Carmen to Lady Macbeth.
There’s a luscious swoon of romance in our Valentine’s Day programme, with Tchaikovsky’s electrifying portrayal of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, his most passionate tone poem. But we’re also looking out for the ultimate bad girl, Carmen, in Ernest Guiraud’s arrangement from Bizet’s opera: daring, kittenish and knowing. James Conlon’s virtuosic suite of Shostakovich’s 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, is a staggering achievement. In his creation of Katerina – the titular Lady Macbeth – Shostakovich scathingly laid bare the oppression of Russian women, and hypocrisy of Russian society. With his customary charisma, Geoffrey Paterson conducts a score that is riveting, burlesque and revolutionary.
We’re excited to welcome the singer and actor Jacqui Dankworth, whose stylish vocal palette draws on jazz, soul, classical and blues. Jacqui performs Kurt Weill’s songs of love and loss – including a fabulous arrangement of Speak Low by her father, John Dankworth – and narrates Lady Macbeth.
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