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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Richard Wagner – Die Walküre: final scene
~ Interval ~
Michael Tippett – A Child of Our Time
Performers
Mark Wigglesworth – Conductor
James Creswell – Bass
Tamara Wilson – soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen – mezzo-soprano
Peter Hoare – tenor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Other concerts in this Series
Programme Note
As Europe slipped towards Fascism, Michael Tippett felt solidarity with the downtrodden. Then, in 1938,a young Polish Jew, whose parents had been deported by the Nazis, shot a German diplomat in Paris. Tippett had the central figure for his ‘oratorio of contemplation’, A Child of Our Time - inspired by Bach’s Passions, Handel’s Messiah and American spirituals.
Mark Wigglesworth also explores the theme of parent-child relationships in the final scene of Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, culminating in Wotan’s poignant farewell to his daughter.