La chronique et la vidéo d'Eléonore :
MOZART WEEK 26 - Salzburg, 22 01 26
LUX AETERNA - WIENER SAAL - ARTIST TALK
Rolando Villazón, Ulrich Leisinger, Roberto González-Monjas, Ensemble des Orquesta Ibercademy Medellin, these young musicians performed pieces from Mozart's last year.
270 anniversary of Mozart's birth and 70 anniversary of the Mozart Week
Rolando : "Five years of waiting for his very first composition."
When three great musical personalities with immense knowledge and deepest love for Mozart and his art are talking about "the most beloved composer of all time", the audience receives an incredibly rich insight, a completely new perspective on the topic, and gains a clear understanding.
Like it happens always in Rolando's fantastic Artist Talks, to write about everything that was said is an impossible mission.
The principal and central topic was "The Magic Flute" and the "Requiem".
Roberto González-Monjas, conductor of this special series of the "Magic Flute" spoke about his feelings and the very intense work to prepare these performances, the concentrated rehearsals with the singers and the orchestra. This opera was the first he saw
Ulrich Leisinger, musicologist and director of the research department of the Mozarteum University talked about his experiences connected to "The Magic Flute" since his childhood.
The audience got a lot of details about the role of the dance inf the life of Mozart who loved to dance,In his oeuvre, he was always looking for new colours.
Mozart has a lot of compositions for theatrical dance. Bal music for the "Redoute". I
In "The Magic Flute", certain parts have danceable rhythms.and even he ended this opera with a dance.
An important part of the Talk was dedicated to the Requiem, the last year of Mozart and his last letter.
Details about "Laudon-Adagio", composed also in his last year and related to Ernst Gideon von Laudon, but originally commissioned for a musical clock.In his last year, Mozart didn't compose anything for two months.
Mozart's words to Konstanze about the "Requiem" : "I am also writing this for myself."
"Zauberflöten-Hauschen" ("The Magic Flute Cottage")
Rolando : "Se non é vero, é ben trovato": A well-known anecdote says that, Mozart wrote a part of "The Magic Flute" in this small cottage. The librettist, Schikaneder, is said to have kept Mozart in this small house to ensure the opera was finished on time.
Salieri : "Prima la música poi le parole" (First the music and then the words". And also : "Good German operas and good Italian operas"
Rolando asked to González-Monjas which is the special part he is especially waiting and expecting in "The Magic Flute" : this is the chimes, the bell ringing. And the conductor blew the melody.
1786 - a year when Mozart had an intense creative period with.Harnoncourt and his Mozart interpretation
"Lacrimosa" /Requiem/ - It is one of the last parts Mozart worked on before his death, while already ill.
(Chronicle about the Opening Concert follows.)
KÖSZÖNÖM, ROLANDO!
Eléonore
MOZART WEEK 26 - Salzburg
OPENING CONCERT - 22 1 26
Emily D'Angelo
Adam Fischer
Danish Chamber Orquestra
Rolando Villazón (Presenter)
Mozart : Overture from "Lucia Silla"
Monteverdi : Aria of Ottavia from "L'incoronazione di Poppea"
Mozart : Overture from "Mitridate, Re di Ponto"
Handel : "Scherza Infida" and "Dopo Notte"
Mozart : Overture from "La Clemenza di Tito" and aria of Sesto
Mozart : Symphony in G-minor
The magnificent Artist Talk with all its musical and human beauty was followed by a greatest Opening Concert, with an incredibly varied and elegant program.
I love Emily D'Angelo's voice since her Idamante in Mozart's "Idomeneo" in Berlin, in February and March 2025. The beauty of her voice is accompanied by an extreme vocal presentation of the character. The ornamentations are extremely stylish and sophisticated. The voice is always keeping its beauty also in the lower registers.
The arias require a high level of skill and expertise, they demand great dedication. Emily D'Angelo's emotional investment is palpable. I particularly loved the two Handel's pieces.
With Emily D'Angelo, the virtuosic "Scherza Infida" and "Dopo notte" have an extensive ornamentation, it shows the incredible vocal virtuosity of the artist.
As my "weakness" are the wind instruments, I especially appreciated the performance of this section of the orchestra.
Adam Fischer, conductor and his orchestra, the Danish Chamber Orchestra gave a deeply Mozartian musical joy.
The success was indescribable, with all the elements of a huge one : immense and endless applause, very loud exclamations of joy, foot tapping.
An unusual thing in concerts : the orchestra played two fabulous Mozart pieces as encores!
A fantastic selection of Rolando to choose this phenomenal orchestra.
KÖSZÖNÖM, ROLANDO!
Eléonore
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