Name: Into the Infinite: Messiaen and Mahler
Start: 2023-03-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-03-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Barbara Hannigan

Singer

Soprano

Aphrodite Patoulidou

Voice

London Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Into the Infinite: Messiaen and Mahler

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Concert Various

Public

The Ascension

Symphony 4

Approved

Blissed-out visions of heaven from Mahler and Messiaen: the irrepressible Barbara Hannigan sings, conducts and dreams her way to glory.
Olivier Messiaen sends up a prayer, and the skies themselves seem to ring with majestic, multicoloured sounds. Mahler gets inside the mind of a child, in a symphony of blue skies, jangling sleighbells and sudden, rapturous visions. It’s a wild ride to heaven, and the extraordinary Barbara Hannigan is there to show us the way tonight.
As a singer, there’s nothing Hannigan can’t do, and as a conductor she drives straight to the places that other musicians wouldn’t dare. She’s been called ‘an artist who shoots straight for the heart and never misses’, and tonight the LSO’s Artistic Associate stars as both conductor and vocalist in a concert charged with wonder.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble