A wide orchestra.

Donald Runnicles Conducts Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis

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Principal Guest Conductor Sir Donald Runnicles joins our celebrations of Beethoven with his Missa Solemnis, the work Beethoven considered his greatest composition

Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis reaches into the divine. Vast in scale and unyielding in vision, it carries a profound sense of aspiration, moving you between moments of quiet devotion and overwhelming surges of sound as it reaches toward the heavens. 

Sir Donald Runnicles grew up listening to his father conduct choirs in Edinburgh. This music is in his blood, and there is nobody better to marshal orchestra, choir and soloists in this powerful expression of human aspiration. This is music that surrounds you with its power and luminosity, transporting you out of the everyday and into a place that is at once monumental and deeply personal. 

As Beethoven wrote on the original manuscript, ‘from the heart – may it return – to the heart’.

Presented by Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Event details

Program

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis

Artists

Conductor
Donald Runnicles
Soprano
Caitlin Lynch
Mezzo soprano
Fleuranne Brockway
Tenor
Mihails Čuļpajevs
Baritone
Raymond Aceto
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

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Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Concert Hall

The Concert Hall is located beneath the largest of Sydney Opera House’s roof sails, filling the upper levels of the west side of the building. Best accessed through the covered concourse. 

All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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