Prometheus in Basel

This week Ivor Bolton is back in Basel with a very special programme

Starting with Gabriel Fauré’s Caligula with the excellent Ladies of the Balthasar Neumann Choir, which is only rarely performed, and Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra No. 1 the audience will then enter the world or myths:
Together with the famous actor Peter Simonischek the orchestra will perform excerpts from Beethoven’s The Creatures of Prometheus in a text version of Basel author Alain Claude Sulzer.


23. + 24.10.2019
Theater Basel
Alexander Melnikov, piano
Immanuel Richter, trumpet
Peter Simonischek, speaker
Ladies of the Balthasar Neumann Choir

Gabriel Fauré – Caligula, op. 52
Dmitri Shostakovich – Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra No. 1 in C minor, op. 35
Ludwig v. Beethoven – Excerpts from the ballet music The Creatures of Prometheus, op. 43, with texts by Alain Claude Sulzer