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Simone Young & James Ehnes Elgar’s Enigma Variations

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Chief Conductor Simone Young conducts Elgar’s masterful Enigma Variations and Canadian violinist James Ehnes returns to Sydney to perform Sibelius’s Violin Concerto

Elgar’s Enigma Variations is the quintessentially English masterpiece known to move even the stiffest of upper lips. With Simone Young at the helm, the Orchestra journeys, variation by glorious variation, toward Nimrod – one of the most thrilling moments in the orchestral repertoire.

Sibelius’s Violin Concerto approaches from a wilder, more exposed place. Internationally revered Canadian violinist James Ehnes – ‘a serious, ever perceptive musician’ (The Guardian) – transforms its bleakness into something that burns. 

The concert opens with the vivid, salt-lashed scene-painting of pioneering English composer Ethel Smyth’s On the Cliffs of Cornwall.

Presented by Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Event details

Program

SMYTH On the Cliffs of Cornwall
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
ELGAR Enigma Variations

Artists

Conductor
Simone Young
Violin
James Ehnes

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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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