Insights By Genius at Dubai Opera

Insights By Genius at Dubai Opera

15th February 2022

SOLOIST - Mikhail Pletnev

CONDUCTOR - Sergey Smbatyan

In their second Symphonic Middle East Festival performance, the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) returns to Dubai Opera to present a programme featuring a work by contemporary composer Alexey Shor, as well as an orchestral piece by one of the UK’s most cherished composers, Edward Elgar. This concert welcomes Gold Medal and First Prize winner of the 1978 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, Founder and Artistic Director of the Russian National Orchestra, Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev. The evening’s programme opens with a special arrangement of Shor’s From My Bookshelf, prepared by Pletnev himself. The work, which incorporates a series of eight musical portraits describing some of the composer's favourite literary figures including Cinderella, Don Quixote, Tom Sawyer, Quasimodo, the Queen of Hearts and Romeo and Juliet, aptly demonstrates the composer’s deft programmatic style of writing and strong use of melody. Following the intermission, the MPO will present a performance of Elgar’s intriguing Enigma Variations (Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36), a unique fourteen-movement work that features a series of musical ‘sketches’ inspired by personality traits and/or personal events concerning the composer’s close friends. This concert is presented by CMDI Group and SAMIT Event Group, with the support of the European Foundation for Support of Culture (EUFSC).

‘Musical portraits to remember’

PROGRAMME

Piano Concerto «From my Bookshelf» Concert version arranged by Mikhail Pletnev 40 mins
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E. Elgar – Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 40 mins

House & Event Policies
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The Opera Cafe opens two hours before the performance

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