Gergiev at the Barbican - £5 tickets!
29 January, 7.30pm
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
BARTÓK Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Valery Gergiev conductor
Elena Zhidkova soprano
Sir Willard White bass-baritone
London Symphony Orchestra
Join the LSO and Valery Gergiev this January as he conducts two 20th century masterpieces in two concerts at the Barbican. Stravinsky's pulsating masterpiece was written for Nijinsky's ballet about a prehistoric community which selects a young virgin for ecstatic human sacrifice. ‘We were dumbfounded,' wrote an early listener, ‘overwhelmed by this hurricane which... had taken life by the roots.' Bartók's only opera has just a single, shattering act. Judith comes to her new husband's home and defies his reluctance to open the castle's chambers. Seven rooms, seven horrors, seven hypnotic musical responses.
As a special offer to Academia Rossica for this concert, quote ‘Academia Rossica discount’ when booking over the phone (Barbican Box Office: 020 7638 8891), or enter promotion code ‘090129’ when booking online to purchase tickets for just £5.