Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Hall, May 4, 2006
Soloists: | White, Willard (bass), Bronder, Peter (tenor), Larsson, Anna (contralto), Skelton, Stuart (tenor), Brainerd, Clayton (baritone), Selig, Franz-Josef (bass), Bosco, Philip (bass) |
- Other Performances:
- Boston, Symphony Hall: May 05 and 06, 2006
- Programme:
- Mozart: Symphony No. 41 | Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
In the second of his subscription programmes during the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2005-6 season, Christoph von Dohnányi a cast of leading singers old and young in Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex. According to Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe, ‘Dohnányi led a performance like dry ice: it was so cold it burned. The clarity and intensity of his vision came through consistently…’