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Simone Young Conducts Beethoven’s Symphonies 8 & 9 Beethoven Festival

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Our Beethoven Festival concludes with the witty Eighth and the groundbreaking Ninth, culminating in the iconic ‘Ode to Joy’

The music that set a benchmark every composer had to reckon with. 

The exuberant Eighth looked back to Haydn and Mozart with playfulness and charm, judged by many contemporary critics to be his finest work. But nobody saw the Ninth coming: the drama, the scale, the emotional impact. It was a groundbreaking vision of what music could be, culminating in the iconic ‘Ode to Joy’, where orchestra, soloists and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs unite in a spinetingling expression of hope and humanity. 

200 years since Beethoven’s death, Chief Conductor Simone Young presents all nine symphonies across two spectacular weeks, tracing a body of work that reshaped the possibilities of the symphonic form.

Presented by Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Event details

Program

BEETHOVEN Symphony No.8
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.9, Choral

Artists

Conductor
Simone Young
Mezzo soprano
Deborah Humble
Tenor
Shanul Dundas
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

Attending this event

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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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