EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND -- Edward Elgar's THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS, with Sir Mark Elder conducting, will be mounted on Sat. Sept. 5 at the Edinburgh International Festival's Usher Hall. The lead singers, mezzo soprano Alice Coote, tenor Paul Groves and bass Iain Paterson, will be backed by the National Youth Choir of Scotland and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, led by Christopher Bell.
     

     
These wellknown artists have been marshalled to perform Elgar's masterpiece. This intense work, a story of spiritual discovery told by Elgar with moving personal faith and conviction is also quintessentially British from the spine-tingling opening to the passionate symphonic climax.

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