The Emperor of Atlantis - Second Night

Join us before and after the concert at our Emperor of Atlantis Gala Dinner to toast Seattle Symphony's Ludovic Morlot. Reserve your seats now!

MOR’s Fifteenth Season Opens with the Daring Opera The Emperor of Atlantis!

Seattle Symphony Music Director Ludovic Morlot to conduct this courageous masterpiece.

  Victor Benedetti   | Megan Chenovick  | Kimberly Giordano |    Ross Hauck

                     Erich Parce       |   Marcus Shelton   |    Jonathan Silvia

This fall, our concert highlight is Viktor Ullmann’s opera The Emperor of Atlantis, composed in the Terezín concentration camp in 1943. Camp authorities halted its final rehearsals once they saw its provocative allusions to Hitler and his war machine. MOR’s bold new production is conducted by the Seattle Symphony’s Ludovic Morlot and directed by Erich Parce, with a stellar vocal cast and a chamber ensemble of Seattle Symphony players. You’ll also hear works by two composers who left Europe in the 1930s to escape the Nazi threat. Swiss-born Ernest Bloch settled in the United States, and Latvian-born Marc Lavry emigrated to Palestine. Both were deeply influenced by their roots in Jewish musical traditions that, Bloch said, give voice to a “complex, glowing, agitated soul.” As a composer and conductor, Lavry went on to become one of the most important figures in Israel’s musical life, and he had a central influence on the development of distinctively Israeli musical styles.

Two nights only! November 16 and 18, 2012