Boston Symphony Orchestra
Thu, Mar 23
|Symphony Hall
The Boy Choristers will be performing Stravinsky's Perséphone with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Time & Location
Mar 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – Mar 24, 2023, 9:30 PM
Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
About the event
English composer Thomas Adès returns to lead two works from , a three-part ballet score from 2021 based on Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century Italian epic poem . The piece was written to mark the 700th anniversary of the poet’s death. Igor Stravinsky’s mythology-based for narrator, tenor, chorus, and orchestra is a magically surreal neoclassical retelling of the goddess Persephone’s abduction by Hades, god of the underworld.The Dante ProjectCommediaPerséphone
The Boy Choristers of Saint Paul's Choir will be singing Stravinsky's Persephone in this program.