Heroic Music Pages

Fri Oct 02, 2015

20:30

Location

Pallas
Rigainis and Arsinois
Paphos Gate, Old Nicosia
Nicosia, Nicosia

Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
Phone: 22463144

Description

Beethoven’s incidental music for Goethe’s play Egmont is perhaps his most dramatic and greatest stage work. This is a story of heroism: Count Egmont leads the Flemish resistance against the Spanish rule during the 16th c., he is arrested and sentenced to death. The main ideals such as striving for national liberation, revolution against oppression and the sacrificial death of the hero are perfectly expressed, both though the music and text, and can be paralleled to the struggle of Cypriot people for their own independence.

L. v. BEETHOVEN: Egmont, overture and incidental music, op. 84

Soloist: Margarita Sygeniotou (song)
Narrator: Apostolos Apostolides
Conductor: Georgios Vranos

Ticket prices:
€12, €7 (young people 18-26 yrs., pensioners), €5 (young people 12-18 yrs), €3 (children under 12)

Ticket presales:
- Pallas Theatre (Regenis and Arsinoes corner, Nicosia 1010, Tel. 22 410181)
- Online at the CySO Foundation website: www.cyso.org.cy
- From the Theatre box office every Wednesday, 16:00-19:00 and on the concert day, 19:00-20:30.

Information: 22 463144, www.cyso.org.cy