Rendered famous by Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Richard Strauss’ symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, with its unmistakable opening theme, remains connected with the deep philosophical inquiry of Nietzsche’s eponymous text about the place and purpose of humanity in the universe. With Rafael Payare and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal performing it in the appropriately expansive setting of the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay, this masterpiece takes on cosmic proportions at the heart of an evening to which only the Festival holds the key.
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART, Overture from Die Zauberflöte, K. 620
Kaija SAARIAHO, Orion
Richard WAGNER, “Wotan’s Farewell” from Die Walküre
Richard STRAUSS, Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30
