Beethoven: Love Elegies
In 1792, a brash, confident, and energetic Beethoven arrived in Vienna, and within a few years he had been embraced by the aristocracy as a rising star. Amid this glittering society, Beethoven often fell in love with women above his social class.
The story of his young years and his attempts at finding love are depicted in a tragicomic script based on Beethoven’s letters and contemporaries’ recollections of the composer interwoven with Beethoven’s music.
Beethoven: Love Elegies was part of our 2010-2011 Season.
2010-2011 Season
Love Looks Not With the Eyes, But With the Mind
Madness, obsession, betrayal; tenderness, jealousy, violence; the most sublime happiness and the deepest despair. Love is the greatest canvas on which the drama of human life unfolds, the lever of human joys and sorrows. Whether it storms the heart or arrives by stealth to colonize our souls, love is at once creator and destroyer, trickster and magician.
ERC explores this most powerful of all emotions in a series of three concerts reflecting the myriad facets of love, its torments and bliss, and its power to bewitch gods and mortals.