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Big Night Out: San Diego Symphony

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San Diego Symphony presents: Also sprach Zarathustra & Bluebeard's Castle

Rafael Payare, conductor Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano Mark Stone, baritone San Diego Symphony Orchestra

Friday, May 22 at 7:30pm Jacobs Music Center

R. STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 BARTÓK: Bluebeard’s Castle

The 2025-26 season ends with two of the most spectacular and orchestrally overwhelming scores from the late romantic period: Richard Strauss’s epic tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra, inspired by Nietzsche’s account of the deep meditations of the half- mythical Persian hermit-philosopher Zoroaster; and Bartók’s dramatic fantasy Bluebeard’s Castle, based on the ancient fairy-tale about a young woman who marries a mysterious aristocrat and discovers that he has terrible secrets kept behind locked doors.

Learn More: https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/zarathustra-bluebeard/

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