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Simone Young conducts Mahler’s Fifth Symphony

Season Opening Gala

In a celebrated Sydney tradition, Chief Conductor Simone Young opens our season with one of Mahler’s sublime symphonies in a concert of passionate and electrifying music.

You can include this concert as part of a 2024 Create Your Own Package and save up to 10%*!

Venue
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
Adult tickets from $45, concessions available
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday performances
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Thursday performance
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*Booking fee of $8.95 may apply.

The blazing energy of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is truly breathtaking live.

Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is an extraordinary creation in both sound and scale. This vast musical journey builds from a luminous fanfare from a single trumpet to moments of great explosive power and a poignant contemplation of love in the Adagietto – one of the best-loved movements in all of music. Under the dynamic direction of Simone Young, Mahler’s vast architecture is revealed, and his stunning colours burn bright.

A rising star, French composer Camille Pépin has created an enchanting expression of life’s technicolour with her Violin Concerto. A work of long, shimmering chords, suspended and weightless, has a peerless interpreter in Renaud Capuçon, who, together with Simone Young, gave the world premiere of the work with the Orchestre National de France in April 2022. Co-commissioned by the Sydney Symphony, it’s our turn to hear this duo deliver Pépin’s compelling new work.

Program

Camille PÉPIN Le Sommeil a pris ton empreinte: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra
MAHLER Symphony No.5

Artists

SIMONE YOUNG conductor
RENAUD CAPUÇON violin

Series Presenting Partner

Emirates

Welcome to 2024

There’s a huge variety of experiences to choose from, including Mahler’s Symphonies, an Opera in Concert and an MGM musical. Join Chief Conductor Simone Young and a dazzling roster of guest artists in performances that unleash the power of music that is totally alive.

In 2024, discover an extraordinary season of concerts.

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