GOLDEN AGE: MYTHOS

Since the spread of historically informed performance and replica instruments, it is not the opera orchestras that are considered to play the most adequate 18^th and early 19^th century music. But who could fill a large space more flexibly and with more body to the sound than the OPERA Orchestra, able to restrain the power of their Romantic instruments as necessary? We do not play early music solely for its overflowing richness, but we also learn from it and create numerous opera projects based on it. Now the Festival of Myths will provide a new opportunity to discover what a modern instrumental ensemble can add to the music of old ages written on mythological topics.

Programme:
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART:
  Il re pastore
     Overture
     „Ditelo voi, pastori… Aer tranquillo e dì sereni” – Aminta's aria from Act 1
  Mitridate, re di Ponto
     Overture
     „Lungi da te, mio bene” – Sifare's aria from Act 2 | featuring János Benyus on horn

JOSEPH HAYDN:
  Scena di Berenice – concert aria

――Interval――

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK:
  Orfeo ed Euridice
     „Qual vita è questa mai… Che fiero momento” – Eurydice's aria from Act 3

GIOACHINO ROSSINI:
  Guillaume Tell
     Overture
     „Sombre forêt” – Mathilde's aria from Act 2
  Semiramide
     Overture
     „Bel raggio lusinghier” – Semiramide's cavatina from Act 1