HBSO to perform Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 From The New World
The HCM City Opera Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will host a concert to highlight Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No 9 "From the New World” at the Opera House on May 21.
The four-movement symphony was composed in 1983 when Dvorak was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895. It premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1893 and has been popular ever since.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a tape recording of the symphony along during the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, in 1969.
The symphony will be performed by HBSO Choir and Symphony Orchestra.
The concert will also feature arias from six different opera and operetta pieces written by wellknown composers from Europe in hopes of giving audiences a great view of popular European opera music from the mid to late 19th century.
The pieces include Nabucco and Don Carlo by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, Hansel and Gretel by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck, The Bartered Bride by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, The Merry Widow by Austro-hungarian composer Franz Lehar, and Prince Igor by Russian composer Alexander Borodin.
Trần Nhật Minh, who holds a Master of Music in conducting from Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory, will wield the baton for the concert.
Minh has won top prizes at international and national competitions, including the International Competition for Young Conductors in Vladivostok in 2003, the annual All-russia Competition for Professional Conductors in 2006, the 2009 Việt Nam National Competition for Voice-dance and Music, and the 2014 International Choral Festival organised by Interkultur in Hội An.
He has also performed with the chamber chorus of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Russia, France and Italy.
He is currently the head and chorusmaster of the HBSO Opera.
The concert will begin at 8pm at 7 Lam Sơn Square in District 1. Tickets are available at the venue and at www.ticketbox.vn.