Mon 4 Feb 2019
Royal Festival Hall, London
Love and Duty, with Magdalena Kožená
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Gluck O del mio dolce ardor from Paride ed Elena
Gluck Dance of the Furies from Orphée et Eurydice
Mozart Giunse alfin il momento - Al desio di chi t'adora from The Marriage of Figaro
Haydn Scena di Berenice
Gluck Di questa cetra from Il Parnaso confuso
Mozart Deh per questo istante from La clemenza di Tito
Mozart Parto, Parto from La clemenza di Tito
Mozart Giunse il momento al fine...Non tardar amato bene from The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro
Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
Giovanni Antonini conductor
Songs from the heart with international opera star Magdalena Kožená.
Magdalena Kožená is one of the world’s biggest opera stars. In this rare solo UK appearance, hear her sing some of the music she’s become famous for – sublime opera arias by Mozart and Gluck.
Individual or society? Heart or heart? Conform or rebel?
Mon 5 Nov 2018
Individual or Society?
Head or Heart?
Conform or Rebel?
Laws or Freedoms?
Secular or Sacred?
These questions about how to live a good life challenged composers such as Bach, Brahms and Mozart as much as they challenge us now.
Our 2018-19 season of concerts at Southbank Centre features the music these composers wrote in response to these questions, sometimes overtly and sometimes indirectly.
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What does it mean to be free?
Tue 30 Jan 2018
Today we’re announcing the concerts in our 2018/19 season as Resident Orchestra at Southbank Centre.
It’s called Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, and it’s the second in our Six Chapters of Enlightenment, six years of concerts celebrating the thought that made the modern world.
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