CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Asko | Schoenberg

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 8:00 PM

Pre-concert talk starts at 7:00 PM in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage with Louis Andriessen in conversation with Jeremy Geffen, Director of Artistic Planning, Carnegie Hall.

Asko | Schoenberg
Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor
Claron McFadden, Voice
Jeroen Willems, Voice
Marcel Beekman, Voice
Cristina Zavalloni, Voice
Synergy Vocals
The Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Dianne Berkun, Director

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN La Commedia (concert version, US Premiere)

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This extraordinary opera by Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair (based on Dante’s Divine Comedy) combines “complexity, intellectualism, horror, beauty, multi-layering, allusions, historical and mythological references, and, above all, irony,” says Andriessen. The Los Angeles Times found it to be full of humor, along with “terrible fury” and “ravishing grace.”