Elim Chan
Wiener Symphoniker
DATE
21 July 2025 – 7.30 p.m.
Festspielhaus, Großer Saal
DURATION
2 hours (with one intermission)
About
From Hong Kong, conductor Elim Chan conquered the world’s major stages. Her debut concert at the Bregenzer Festspiele is dedicated to French works from the period of transition around 1900.
The concert opens with Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, a symphonic poem about a sleepy yet lustful faun and an afternoon full of exotic whole-tone scales and pentatonic sounds. What follows is a musical journey into the world of One Thousand and One Nights with Maurice Ravel’s Shéhérazade, his first major success. The three orchestral songs inspired by oriental tales are presented by Tunisian Canadian mezzosoprano Rihab Chaieb.
Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune for orchestra, L. 86
Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade. Three poems by Tristan Klinsor for voice and orchestra
Mélanie (Mel) Bonis
Trois femmes de légende for orchestra
Claude Debussy
La Mer. Three symphonic sketches for orchestra
Conductor
Elim Chan
Mezzo-soprano
Rihab Chaieb
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