INTIMATE LETTERS AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
26 – 30 August

In a dramatic collaboration with Bell Shakespeare, the Australian Chamber Orchestra performs Janáček’s Intimate Letters and Smetana’s From My Life, sharing the stage with esteemed actors and led by London Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Gordan Nikolic.

Inspired by more than 700 passionate letters written between Janáček and his much younger, married muse, Intimate Letters explores their overwhelming and obsessive love.

Smetana’s autobiographical From My Life soars with the joy and hope of childhood which gradually derails and ultimately descends into despair, as the composer faces the inescapable fate of impending deafness.

program
MOZART Divertimento in F, K.138
SMETANA String Quartet No.1 “From My Life” (arr. for string orchestra)
JANÁČEK String Quartet No.2 “Intimate Letters” (arr. for string orchestra)

artists
Gordan Nikolic Guest Director & Violin, London Symphony Orchestra
Peter Evans Co-Artistic Director, Bell Shakespeare
Susanna Dowling Assistant Director, Bell Shakespeare
Nicholas Rayment Lighting Designer
With Marshall Napier and Ella Scott Lynch
Concept by Timo-Veikko Valve