Artists
Conductor
Piano
perfumer
Mezzo-soprano
Baritone
Narrator
Lighting Design
San Francisco Symphony
program
Prometheus, The Poem of Fire
Alexander
Scriabin
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
Béla
Bartók
performances
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Event Description
Alexander Scriabin’s symphonic poem Prometheus, The Poem of Fire celebrates synesthesia and cosmic unity. Devised by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Cartier in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent, the San Francisco Symphony and Cartier present a multisensory production of Prometheus. This collaborative world premiere combines dynamic musical and light performance with olfactory curation, subsuming audiences in Scriabin’s creative vision more than a century after the piece of total art was composed.Learn more about the Symphony’s collaboration with Cartier.
Prometheus is paired with Béla Bartók’s bloodthirsty fairy tale Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, in which the composer reimagines Bluebeard as a tragic, yet appealing loner. Bartók's music is pure Hungarian: all tangy modal harmonies and skipping, stomping, folk-flavored rhythms.
Lead support for the performances of Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle is provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Guest Artists.
Artwork by Sho Shibuya.
Photography/Video by Mynxii White.
Enrich Your Experience
- Sunday, March 3 from 1:00pm–1:30pm: Join Cartier's in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent in a preconcert talk with Phillippa Cole presented from the stage. Free to all ticketholders.
This performance contains colored lighting and scent effects.