Teatro Manzoni, Bologna James Conlon — Mozart and Brahms
Bologna, Auditorium Manzoni — Main Hall
About the Event
An orchestra of great tradition, Sergiu Celibidache, ZoltánPeskó, Vladimir Delman, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Michele Mariotti have taken turns at its helm as music directors. Among the conductors who have led the ensemble are Gary Bertini, Myung‐Whun Chung, James Conlon, Pinchas Steinberg, Valery Gergiev, Eliau Inbal, Vladimir Jurowskij, Daniel Oren, Peter Maag, Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovič, Esa Pekka Salonen, Georg Solti, Christian Thielemann, Charles Dutoit, Georges Prêtre. The Teatro Comunale Orchestra is frequently invited abroad (Holland, Romania, Spain, France and Switzerland) and has participated in prestigious festivals (Amsterdam 1987, Parma 1990, Wiesbaden 1994, Santander 2004 and 2008, Aix en Provence 2005, Savonlinna 2006, Macau 2013, Muscat 2015, Guanajuato in Mexico 2017, Paris 2018). A privileged relationship with Japan has resulted in several tours, most recently in June 2019 in Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama, Fukuoka, with Rigoletto and Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Idomeneo, ” ballets K. 367
Music from the ballet that closes the opera “Idomeneo re di Creta” (1780) is given an independent opera number in Mozart’s catalog (K367, while the opera drama is given K366). Generally these extraordinary 25 minutes of music are omitted in theatrical performances, and even in pure symphonic guise they are an absolute rarity. Mozart was able to write it with the maximum expenditure of technical resources, thanks in part to the Mannheim Orchestra, among the best ensembles of the time, which was entrusted with the first performance at the Munich Residence, at the Cuvilliés Theater. Although rarely performed, the Idomeneo is a milestone in the theatrical development of Mozart, who in the late 1770s had delved into the works of Christoph Willibald Gluck in Paris, assimilating his models.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor , op. 98
Seeming to incur into a private inner world, now far removed from the debates of the post‐Wagnerian musical world, the Brahms of the Fourth and Last Symphony, written in two summers between 1884 and 1885 and characterized by an uncovered cantabile not disassociated from Bachian‐style counterpoint, which in the last movement rises to the supreme guide of musical discourse. Is this the swan song of a civilization? Not yet, judging by the advent, shortly thereafter, of a giant like Gustav Mahler, “activated” by the example of another titan of the nineteenth‐century Symphony, Anton Bruckner. But certainly the horn’s mournful appeal, almost a distant echo of the Romantic Golden Age, seems to spell the end of a certain way of understanding music.
Practical Information
You must print out the order confirmation and show it at the box office to collect your regular ticket, starting one hour before the start of the concert, at the Teatro Manzoni, Via De' Monari 1/2.
Cast / Production
Orchestra del Teatro comunale di Bologna
James Conlon, conductor
Address
Auditorium Manzoni, Via de'Monari 1/2, Bologna, Italy — Google Maps
