May Festival:The Creation
Friday, May 17, 2024 at 07:30pm
May Festival
Cincinnati Music Hall
1241 Elm St.
Program
HAYDN: The Creation
Artists
Robert Porco, conductor
Camilla Tilling, soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Alexander Brich Elliot, baritone
May Festival Chorus
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
As the May Festival enters a new era of artistic innovation and collaboration, it seems only fitting to begin the 2024 Festival with a work symbolizing creation. Few works of sacred music are more cheerful and joyous than Haydn's The Creation. It exemplifies Haydn’s own personal faith and optimism in humanity, as well as his profound belief in music’s ability to edify, uplift and inspire. Through the inspired use of soloists, full chorus and orchestra, The Creation depicts and celebrates the creation of the earth, and all of its flora and fauna, as narrated in Biblical passages from Genesis and Psalms, as well as from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
