Corrine Byrne

Corrine Byrne is a soprano scheduled to appear as soloist with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra in Boston in December 2026, performing on a program titled "Moonlit Dreams." Based on the listing, she is a vocal soloist taking on Berlioz's song cycle "Les Nuits d'été" alongside orchestral works by Massenet, Brouwer, and Ravel.

This concert centers on Berlioz's "Les Nuits d'été" (Summer Nights), a set of six songs originally written for voice and piano, here likely heard in its orchestrated form, moving through moods of love, loss, and longing across texts by Théophile Gautier. Listeners can expect a soprano voice carrying long, unhurried melodic lines over shifting orchestral color, since Berlioz gives each song its own distinct atmosphere rather than repeating a single mood. The rest of the program frames her singing with orchestral scene-painting: Massenet's introduction to his fairy-tale opera "Cendrillon," a contemporary piece by Leo Brouwer evoking sunrise and flowers, and Ravel's shimmering second suite from "Daphnis et Chloé." Together these suggest an evening built around nighttime, nature, and transformation, with the voice as its emotional center.