Fairy Tale Concert: From One Thousand and One Nights to Cinderella

Give a composer a fairy tale, a myth or a Bible story and out comes enchanting music. Ravel proved that with his Shéhérazade, Prokofiev with his ballet Cinderella and Strauss with his exciting "Dance of the Seven Veils" from Salome. The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Stéphane Denève, will make this a fairy-tale evening of music to dream away.

Perhaps the stories from One Thousand and One Nights are the most imaginative fairy tales. At least for composers. Maurice Ravel, for example, was gripped early on by Eastern mysticism and magic. As early as 1898, he wrote the overture Shéhérazade. The work was not a success and five years later he repeated it with a work for soprano and orchestra. And then every note was a hit.

With Stéphane Denève there is a great storyteller on the podium. The French conductor once began his career as assistant to the great George Solti. Since then he has had the Brussels Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the St. Louis Orchestra, among others, under his wing. His vast experience with opera and ballet has taught him to perform musical fairy tales as compelling stories.