Boulder Philharmonic: STRAUSS &; SHOSTAKOVICH with Heidi Melton, soprano

Metropolitan Opera soprano Heidi Melton brings luminous vocal power to Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs—a transcendent farewell to life written in the final year of the composer’s life. Set to poems by Hermann Hesse and Joseph von Eichendorff, these songs are filled with serenity, acceptance, and a radiant beauty that seems to suspend time itself. For many, Four Last Songs stands as one of the most sublime expressions of human mortality in music.
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