National Symphony New Year's Concert... Orchestra, Opera, Gugak, and Contemporary Dance on One Stage

A Variety of Artistic Genres on One Stage
From Orchestral Music to Gugak and Contemporary Dance

The National Symphony Orchestra will hold the 2025 season opening concert on the 15th at the National Theater's Haeoreum Theater. Various genres of art, including orchestral music, opera, gugak (traditional Korean music), and contemporary dance, will be showcased on one stage.

The performance will start energetically with the trumpet fanfare and lively rhythm of Franz von Supp?'s "Light Cavalry Overture." This will be followed by Richard Strauss's "Waltz Sequence No. 1" from Der Rosenkavalier, and "Adios, Piazzolla," arranged by composer Kim Hyung-jun, which weaves together works by Piazzolla.

In the second part, soprano Kim Sun-young, tenor Son Ji-hoon, and bass-baritone Jeon Tae-hyun will perform arias from Romantic operas. Audiences can enjoy representative arias from Donizetti's operas "L'elisir d'amore" and "La fille du r?giment," as well as Leh?r's operetta "Judita."

Composer Woo Hyo-won's commissioned piece "Peace's Binari" will be performed, followed by pansori singer Yu Tae-pyung and drummer Kim Kyung-min presenting "Eolsu, Simbongsa Opened His Eyes!" from the pansori "Simcheongjeon."

Finally, Ravel's "Bol?ro" will be performed, accompanied by the contemporary dance company Sinaburo Gaseume (SIGA). "Bol?ro" is a ballet music piece composed by Ravel upon commission from Russian dancer Ida Rubinstein, inspired by the rhythm of traditional Spanish dance.

David Ryland, artistic director of the National Symphony, stated, "This stage was directed with the Korean traditional dance Ganggangsullae as a motif. This performance, where classical music, traditional music, and contemporary dance harmonize to form a cycle, symbolically expresses the role of the National Symphony as a theater orchestra and the cycle of life throughout the year."

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