Bristol International Classical Season

It’s nearly a quarter of a century since the LSO’s last visited the Hall and it’s returning with a bang! Sibelius smelled the scent of the first snow in his 6th Symphony, while evocative landscape turns to elemental seascape in the Interludes Britten extracted from his opera Peter Grimes premiered in June 1945. Scarcely a month later the world would change forever with the detonation of the first nuclear bomb, subject of a more recent operatic head-turner: John Adams’ audacious Dr Atomic. To conduct the symphony of the opera the New York Times called the musical event of the year, none other than Adams himself - in his element in more senses than one.