Experience the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s Summer Night Concert with Great Performances

• Aimee Bealer
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A beloved summer tradition, Great Performances presents the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s summer night concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace Gardens. 

 

The Vienna Philharmonic has performed the Summer Night Concert from the Schönbrunn Palace Gardens in Vienna since 2004. This is the first time Metropolitan Opera music conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin is conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s summer concert. Focusing on musical works from French Romanticism to Impressionism, with performances of:  

• Suite No. 1 from “Carmen” – Georges Bizet 
• “Habanera” from “Carmen” – Georges Bizet 
• “D‘un matin de printemps” – Lili Boulanger 
• “Le Corsaire” Overture – Hector Berlioz 
• “O ma lyre immortelle” aria from “Sapho” – Charles Gounod 
• “Daphnis et Chloé” Suite No. 2 – Maurice Ravel 
• “Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix” aria from “Samson et Dalila” – Camille Saint-Saëns 
• “Boléro” – Maurice Ravel 
• “Viennese Spirit” Waltz – Johann Strauss Jr. 

The performance of “D‘un matin de printemps” is dedicated to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was signed 75 years ago and strengthened 30 years ago at the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights. Also performed for the first time is a composition by Lili Boulanger, the first female winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome for her work in 1913. Great Performances: Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023 hosts the talent of Elīna Garanča singing the iconic “Habanera” from “Carmen” and other arias from “Sapho” and “Samson et Dalilia”.  

Watch Great Performances: Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023 on August 25 at 9pm on WITF TV or with the PBS or WITF app!