Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and rising stars of the Curtis Opera Theatre in a musical tour of France. This delightful program of mischievous magic, childhood fairytales, and operatic jewels celebrates the music of Dukas, Gounod, Debussy, Massenet, and Ravel.

Paul Dukas’s "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice" captures the imagination as the spell of one inept magician’s apprentice goes chaotically awry. Selections from popular operas by Gounod, Debussy, and Massenet follow this spirited scherzo. Maurice Ravel’s charming "Mother Goose Suite", a collection of five storybook miniatures, and "La Valse", a dark and dizzying choreographic poem, bring the evening to a thrilling close.