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BOUNDLESS

STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN & DANIELE GATTI

»A complete musical cosmology is what Gustav Mahler wanted to create in his Third Symphony: from lifeless matter to plants, animals, humans and angels, all the way to divine love«, thus the radio station BR-Klassik in a review of this composition, which Mahler completed in 1896 after four years of work. Indeed, Mahler’s Third exceeds all boundaries, not only that of duration, lasting between 90 and 100 minutes. It also calls for an enormous orchestra, plus a contralto solo – which the Canadian mezzo-soprano Michèle Losier, who has enjoyed success in Europe and overseas, will sing in this concert – as well as a women’s and a boys’ chorus. Then there is the number of movements: no less than six. By any measure, it is an exceptional work, heard at this matinee of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden at the Semper Opera under the baton of its new chief conductor Daniele Gatti. Who said once, in an interview about Gustav Mahler: »Mahler’s symphonies know no boundaries, because what he wants to say is boundless.«


MICHÈLE LOSIER ALTO
CHILDREN’S CHORUS OF THE SÄCHSISCHE STAATSOPER DRESDEN
LADIES OF THE CHORUS OF THE SÄCHSISCHE STAATSOPER DRESDEN

DANIELE GATTI CONDUCTOR

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D-minor

11 am
Semperoper

In cooperation with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

PRE-CONCERT TALK
10.15 AM
(OPERNKELLER)