Salomon Orchestra: Stravinsky’s Firebird and more

On May 30, Salomon Orchestra performs the final concert of its Music for Stage & Screen series at Smith Square Hall, conducted by Philip Ellis.

The programme opens with Mussorgsky’s Dawn on the Moscow River, the evocative prelude to his opera Khovanshchina, later orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov. It is followed by the orchestral suite from Queen of Spades, based on music by Prokofiev originally written for an unfinished film project and later adapted into a ballet by composer Michael Berkeley.

The evening culminates with Stravinsky’s complete ballet The Firebird, composed for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and premiered in Paris in 1910 — a work that launched the composer onto the international stage.

For more information and tickets click on ‘buy ticket’.