Liszt: Dante Symphony / Don Sanche – premiere

Don Sanche was written by the child prodigy Liszt on his first foreign study tour. The 13-year-old composer chose his subject from one of the period’s fashionable novels of chivalry. We tend to classify such efforts among the early works, but as György Selmeczi has written: “the theatre person is soon aware of the talent oozing from the score, the musicality, the individual tone”. Together with this early work we will also hear the mature Liszt’s monumental Dante symphony according to the composer’s original, gesamtkunstwerk intentions.

Conductor: Tamás Pál
Featuring the Contemporary Ballett Szeged
Choreography: Roberto Galvan
Director: Ferenc Anger

A joint première with the Szeged National Theatre.