Month: July 2024
2001-07-17 + 28 Bampton Classical Opera
In 2001, the ensemble performed the British premiere of “The Philosopher’s Stone,” a singspiel by Emanuel Schikaneder, composed in collaboration with Mozart, Henneberg, Schack, and Gerl. Superb Presentation Bampton homepage: https://www.bamptonopera.org/operadetail.htm?event=67
Bampton Classical Opera – Wikipedia
2000-06-09 Hampstead and Highgate Festival
2003 combattimento consort Amsterdam
Performances
The singspiel was premiered on 11 September 1790 in the Theater auf der Wieden, conducted by Henneberg. It was first recorded by the Boston Baroque in 1999.[2][6] Modern performances were mounted at the Hampstead & Highgate Festival, Augsburg Opera and Pepperdine University in 2001, by Bampton Classical Opera in 2002, by Combattimento Consort Amsterdam in 2003, the Astoria Music Festival, Garsington Opera and Salzburg’s Haus für Mozart in 2006, Opernhaus Zürich (at the Stadttheater Winterthur) in 2010, and the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck in 2018.
2001-10-15 + 16 Pepperdine University
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a][b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music,[1] with his music admired for its “melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture”.