Get ready to experience the sonic world of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, inspired by the legendary literary figure. In One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of centuries-old Middle Eastern and Indian folktales, Scheherazade is the narrator weaving together fascinating and awe-inspiring tales as a method of sparing her life from the actions of a brutal king. In an epic marathon of storytelling, she keeps the king preoccupied for one thousand and one nights, after which the king falls in love with Scheherazade and ends his murderous rampage. Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite remains one of the most famous adaptations of these stories.
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