The Dream of Gerontius

“This is the best of me,” declared Edward Elgar on the score of The Dream of Gerontius – and this heart-rending vision of a lonely soul’s journey towards eternity might just be the greatest piece of British music ever written. Peter Oundjian loves it, and tonight, with a world-class team of soloists, he’ll make The Dream soar like never before. Forget everything you thought you knew about Elgar – just make sure you hear it. 

Peter Oundjian (Conductor)

Toronto-born conductor Peter Oundjian was an instrumental figure in the rebirth of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as Music Director. Oundjian was Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010 and has served as a visiting professor at the Yale School of Music since 1981.

Toby Spence  

Toby Spence has sung with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, the Paris Opera, ENO, the Bavarian State Opera, the Teatro Real, Madrid, Theater an der Wien, the Hamburg Opera and at the Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence and Edinburgh festivals. On the concert platform he works with Sir Simon Rattle, Andris Nelsons, Thomas Adés, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Symon Bychkov.

Sarah Connolly  

Sarah Connolly CBE, is one of the foremost British mezzo sopranos. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music where she studied piano and singing. She has been nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, a TMA Award, two Grammy Awards and won an Edison, Gramophone and South Bank Awards. On the operatic stage, highlights include The Composer at The Metropolitan Opera, New York, Dido at La Scala and Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne.

Alan Opie  

Alan Opie’s extensive concert work has included performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah in San Francisco and Dallas, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast in Dallas and Carnegie Hall, Britten’s War Requiem in Washington, Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony in Los Angeles, Elgar’s The Kingdom with the Halle Orchestra in honour of the 150th anniversary of Elgar’s birth and Apostles as part of the BBC Proms 2007 season.

RSNO Chorus  

The RSNO Chorus performs in around six different programmes in up to twenty concerts across Scotland with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra each year. The RSNO Chorus has also had great success in recording with the Orchestra. Its recordings, amongst others, of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky, conducted by Neeme Jarvi, and Holst's The Planets, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones, have both been subject to high critical acclaim.

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