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The Roman poet Ovid’s celebrated Metamorphoses has inspired many operas over the past 400 years. This fascinating programme features climactic scenes from three such operas composed by the three greatest composers of the Classical period – Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (1762), Haydn’s Philemon und Baucis (1773) and Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus (1767). These are preceded by one of the ‘6 Symphonies after Ovid’s Metamorphoses’ written on the 1780s by the colourful Viennese composer Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

SOLOISTS
Anna Devin (soprano)
Christopher Ainslie (countertenor)
Benjamin Hulett (tenor)

Ian Page (conductor)

PROGRAMME
1 Dittersdorf: Symphony in F major – I. Adagio non molto
2 Dittersdorf: Symphony in F major – II. Presto
3 Dittersdorf: Symphony in F major – III. Larghetto
4 Dittersdorf: Symphony in F major – IV. Vivace – Tempo di Minuetto
5 Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice – Accompagnato, “Vieni, segui i miei passi”
6 Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice – Duetto, “Vieni, appaga il tuo consorte”
7 Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice – Accompagnato, “Qual’ vita è questa mai”
8 Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice – Aria, “Che fiero momento!”
9 Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice – Accompagnato, “Ecco un nuovo tormento”
10 Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice – Aria, “Che farò senza Euridice?”
11 Haydn: Philemon und Baucis – Overture: I. Allegro con espressione
12 Haydn: Philemon und Baucis – Overture: II. Andante poco Allegro
13 Haydn: Philemon und Baucis – Aria, “Heut’ fühl ich der Armut Schwere”
14 Haydn: Philemon und Baucis – Entr’acte [Ordonez]
15 Haydn: Philemon und Baucis – Aria, “Wenn am weiten Firmamente”
16 Haydn: Philemon und Baucis – Duet, “Entflohn ist nun der Schlummer”
17 Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38 – Accompagnato, “Hyacinthe! – Nate!”
18 Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38 – Aria, “Ut navis in aequore luxoriante”
19 Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38 – Recitativo, “Quocumque me converto”
20 Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38 – Duetto, “Natus cadit”
21 Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38 –Recitativo, “Rex! me redire cogit”
22 Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38 – Terzetto, “Tandem post turbida”

‘Tales from Ovid’ in rehearsal. ‘The fifteen books of Ovid’s famous Metamorphoses have provided extensive material and inspiration for composers from Cavalli and Monteverdi to Britten and beyond. In Classical Opera’s captivating programme, one of Dittersdorf’s descriptive Symphonies after the Metamorphoses of Ovid is followed by enchanting transformation scenes from operas by the three greatest composers of the Classical era.’ Ian Page discusses The Mozartists’ Wigmore Hall performance. Footage from 2013.

Date

20 May 2013
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