Friday, February 17, 8.00pm
Sunday, February 19, 3.00pm
Symphony Hall
Join us as we celebrate Mozart's 250th
birthday with great choruses and solo arias from his beloved
operas, The
Magic Flute and Idomeneo, as well as ballet
music from Ascanio in Alba- first performance in
235 years!
Mozart: Thamos, King
of Egypt
Mozart:
Selections from Idomeneo
Mozart:
Selections from The Magic Flute
Mozart: Voi
avete un cor fedele, K. 217
Mozart: Jener
Donnerworte Kraft from Die
Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebotes, K. 35
Mozart:
Ballet Music from Ascanio in Alba
Grant
Llewellyn, conductor
Karina
Gauvin, soprano
Richard
Clement, tenor
This program celebrates the brilliant imagination and consummate
dramatic sense of one of the greatest composers of our Western
tradition, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. For his birthday,
conductor Grant Llewellyn has assembled a feast of arias
and choruses taken from some of Mozart’s best-loved
operas: his opera seria Idomeneo, his extraordinary Marriage
of Figaro, and the Magic Flute, the Singspiel that
delighted Vienna at the end of his short life.
Mozart: Ballet Music from Ascanio in Alba
The
program will also include the first performance since 1771
of the entr’acte ballet music to Mozart’s youthful
serenata Ascanio in Alba written for a Royal Wedding
in Milan in that year. Long considered lost, the ballet was
identified in 1964 by the great Mozart scholar Wolfgang Plath
as surviving in an 18 th century keyboard transcription. A
performing version has recently been reconstructed by Ron Hunter.
This is its world premiere in modern times.
For further information:
http://www.r-ds.com/opera/resource/idomeneo.htm
A discussion of Idomeneo, with a synopsis and libretto
http://www.abbeville.com/magicflute/index.html
A lovely site about the Magic Flute, including an interesting
essay on the opera by the poet J.D. McClatchy and a synopsis.
http://www.reginaopera.org/figaro.htm
A synopsis of the Marriage of Figaro
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mozart.html
A short biography of Mozart, from the Grove Concise Dictionary
of Music
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