Under the leadership of Music Director Andrea Battistoni, the Orchestra del Teatro Regio explores the boundaries of desire and rhythm in a program that is a true crescendo of passions. From the exotic and sensual colors of Saint-Saëns’ Bacchanale to the tragic intensity of Berlioz — who, with La mort de Cléopâtre interpreted by mezzo-soprano Antoinette Dennefeld, paints the supreme and fatal ecstasy of the Queen of Egypt — the concert transforms into a feast of overwhelming rhythms: first with the sun-drenched and rhythmic Spain of Manuel de Falla, and finally with Ravel’s hypnotic Boléro, a perfect orchestral mechanism that leads the listener toward an unforgettable sound paroxysm.