Tickets
Standard
$59-$99
Concession
$54-$94
Child (under 18 years)
$20
$7 transaction fee / order
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Courtesy of TarraWarra Estate; details below.
Dates
Monday 17 June 2024
6:30pm at Hamer Hall
Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier conductor
Program
R. Schumann Manfred: Overture
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 Pathétique
About this performance
Join the MSO and conductor Anja Bihlmaier in exploring the musical introspection of two of classical music’s most profoundly talented and intensely emotional composers.
- Lord Byron’s poem Manfred follows a man tortured by guilt, who summons supernatural beings before dying from madness. The story presents devastating parallels to Schumann’s own mental health decline, and this Overture – written to accompany the poem – captures its emotional intensity with great beauty and striking intimacy.
- Tchaikovsky considered his Sixth Symphony as ‘the best thing I ever composed or shall compose’. Full of nostalgic warmth, passion, and heart, the Sixth is a musical meditation on the joys of a life remembered, tempered by the inevitability of death. It ends, not in jubilant celebration as was the symphonic tradition at the time, but in a supremely effective fade out to silence.
Duration: approx. 1 hour, no interval
Win a Premium Wine Tasting Experience
Ticket purchasers for this performance will be entered into a draw to win a premium tasting for 6 people in TarraWarra Estate's private tasting room, plus cheese, charcuterie, and condiments to enjoy on the deck or in the cellar door and access to the TarraWarra Museum of Art.
Enhance your experience
Pre-concert wine tasting at 5.30pm
Hamer Hall Stalls Foyer
Arrive early to enjoy a wine tasting courtesy of TarraWarra Estate, free for ticket holders.
Post-concert talk at 7.45pm
Hamer Hall Stalls Foyer
Want to learn more about the music being performed? Stick around for an informative and entertaining post-concert talk.
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