Romeu e Julieta
Event
This will be the debut of Rebecca Tong at Casa da Música, a conductor who won the Solti competition in Chicago and the La Maestra competition in Paris. This concert brings us one of the most enduring love stories in Western culture: Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s tragedy that Prokofieff set to music in the form of a ballet, giving it an orchestral colouring that boosts the expressiveness of the body. Love, the theme chosen for this season, is also addressed in the form of double concertos in which the soloists embody the protagonists of the story. In this performance, the heroes are two pianos, supported by the orchestra, in a work written by Francis Poulenc in 1932. The young composer was experimenting with a new formation and wrote a piece in which “happy modernism” stands out through rhythmic vivacity. And it was precisely from a work for two pianos that the outstanding and colourful orchestral piece by Emmanuel Chabrier was born, as a result of a trip he made to Spain.
