RCO: Antonio Pappano & Joyce DiDonato

Synopsis

Antonio Pappano conducts two works in which love leads to lunacy: Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique and Jake Heggie’s song cycle, Camille Claudel: Into the Fire, featuring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. Musical tales of boundless passion and madness come to life. Hector Berlioz explored his obsessive love in the Symphonie fantastique. Joyce DiDonato sings Into the Fire, Jake Heggie’s bittersweet song cycle about the French artist Camille Claudel, whose affair with her associate Auguste Rodin proved to be her undoing. Such a programme calls for a conductor who knows how to deliver drama in a perfectly measured way. Sir Antonio Pappano manages to lead the Concertgebouw Orchestra on this emotional roller coaster without going off the rails. PROGRAM Heggie: Camille Claudel – Into the Fire; Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Additional Info

• No: 8988
• Composer: Hector Berlioz, Jake Heggie
• Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano
• Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
• Production year: 2025
• Run time: 01:30:00
• Producers: RCO
• Format: HDTV 16:9