Así habló Zaratustra
Synopsis
The Freedom or Fate season culminates with one of the most iconic openings in music history: the sunrise scene from Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Yet Strauss’s work is far more than its celebrated opening. Inspired by Nietzsche, it explores some of the great questions of human existence: knowledge, consciousness, transcendence and the possibility of overcoming inherited limitations.
The Sinfónica approaches this final concert as the culmination of a journey that has unfolded throughout the season, tracing a path that moves from destiny as an inescapable force to freedom as thought, affirmation and continual striving.
Before that, David Kadouch is the soloist in Grieg’s Piano Concerto, a work of great melodic freshness, Romantic energy and luminous virtuosity. The evening opens with Charles Martin Loeffler’s The Death of Tintagiles, a score of haunting atmosphere, inspired by Maeterlinck’s Symbolist drama.
This season ends not with an answer, but with an invitation to keep questioning, seeking and transcending.
Artistic datasheet
Principal guest conductor: Pablo González
Soloist: David Kadouch (piano)
Programme
LOEFFLER
The Death of Tintagiles, Op. 6*
GRIEG
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
STRAUSS
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, TrV 176, Op. 30
*Played for the first time by this orchestra.
Pre-concert talk
The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra will offer a pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m. in the Sala Avenida (in the auditorium lobby) by José Lorenzo Chinea, from the Tenerife Association of Friends of Music (ATADEM). Admission is free until capacity is reached.
Tickets
Access to the hall is not permitted once the doors are closed for the event to begin.
Access is only allowed to those over five years of age.
For further information, please check the general purchase terms and hall conditions.
If you have any questions while purchasing your tickets, please contact taquilla@auditoriodetenerife.com or call 922 568 625 from Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., except on public holidays.