Classical Opera 20th Birthday Concert

,Barbican Hall
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Celebrating their 20th birthday, Classical Opera and The Mozartists explore themes of birth, renewal, humanity and aspiration in a programme centred around Beethoven’s climactic Symphony No 9.

Classical Opera is renowned for its story-telling and quality of programming, and this concert promises to take the audience on a unique and inspiring journey, featuring thoughtful, rousing and historically-informed performances of a sequence of great music, alongside a sequence of short readings selected to reflect and enhance the musical works being performed.

Ian Page, founder and Artistic Director of Classical Opera and The Mozartists, has won widespread critical acclaim for his interpretations of the music of Mozart and his contemporaries. His orchestra, led by Matthew Truscott, is ‘packed with many of the wisest practitioners in the business’ according to Gramophone, and the choir is hand-picked from singers who appear regularly with such choirs as Tenebrae and The Monteverdi Choir.

Classical music

Programme

Haydn 'The Representation of Chaos' from The Creation
Handel/Mozart 'Leidenschaften stillt und weckt Musik' from Ode to St Cecilia
Mozart 'Exsultate, jubilate' (first movement)
Mozart March and Cavatina, 'Accogli, oh re del mar' from Idomeneo
Beethoven 'Da stiegen die Menschen' from Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor

Performers

The Choir and Orchestra of The Mozartists
Ian Page conductor
Barbara Flynn reader
Natalya Romaniw soprano
Anna Devin soprano
Claudia Huckle mezzo-soprano
Stuart Jackson tenor
Henry Waddington bass-baritone

Miah Persson is indisposed, but she will be replaced in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by Natalya Romaniw. Anna Devin has kindly agreed to perform 'Da stiegen die Menschen'

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Watch: Classical Opera's 20th Birthday Concert

 

Classical Opera and The Mozartists celebrate the company’s twentieth birthday with an unmissable concert of works by the three greatest composers of the Classical era. 

Barbican Hall