TSO - Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty

Let’s spend the first Sunday of December listening to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra play the second of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets: his famed Sleeping Beauty! Afterwards, we can meet up at Elephant & Castle to discuss the show.

Tchaikovsky’s delight for his original ballet score for The Sleeping Beauty, and his desire to adapt it into an orchestral suite, languished due to the monumental task of editing down the volume of enchanting numbers. It was not published in suite form until after his death. Your Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs the beloved suite as compiled by guest conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, revered for its dramatic fantasy, colourful orchestration, and enduring charm. A second fantasy plays across the stage with the prelude to Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera, Hansel and Gretel. The charming score, adapted from the Brothers Grimm story, is brought to life in the leitmotifs of the characters, from the lilting innocence of the children to the dissonant chords of the evil witch. Also on the program, Toronto Symphony Orchestra Principal Bassoon Michael Sweeney performs the hauntingly beautiful Bassoon Concerto by Italian-Canadian composer Marjan Mozetich. In 2003, Sweeney commissioned and premièred the intriguing soundscape, which merges new concepts with the familiar.

There's a free pre-concert performance by the TSO Chamber Soloists before the Sunday, December 3 performance.

Roy Thomson Hall
Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 | 1:45PM pre-show, 3:00PM show
Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor
Michael Sweeney, Bassoon

Program:
Prelude to Hansel and Gretel - Humperdinck
Concerto for Bassoon and String Orchestra with Marimba - Marjan Mozetich
Suite from The Sleeping Beauty - Tchaikovsky/comp. Emelyanychev

(Pre-show:
James Gardiner, trumpet
Renata Cardoso, trumpet
Nicholas Hartman, horn
Vanessa Fralick, trombone
Mark Tetreault, tuba
HUMPERDINCK: Overture to Hansel and Gretel, arranged for brass quintet
LARYSA KUZMENKO: Impromptu and Toccata for brass quintet
TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker Suite, arranged for brass quintet)

Concert run time: 2 hours including intermission, 1 hour pre-show

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We appreciate that our members have their own seating preferences and budgets. In response to this, we will ask that you purchase your own tickets at your choice of price and seating area.

How to purchase tickets
Individual Tickets for this concert (https://my.tso.ca/2991/3126)
TSOUNDCHECK - for those 15-35 (https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/ticket-information/tsoundcheck/)