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© Giancarlo Pradelli
Michael Haydn and Antonio Salieri
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An international collection of soloists gathers for this All Saints’ Day celebration to sing the requiems by Michael Haydn and Antonio Salieri with the Orfeo Orchestra. An old favourite of the Hungarian audience, the Brit Howard Williams, will occupy the conductor’s podium. The two works in C minor are connected by Mozart: On one hand, Michael Haydn’s work, which premiered in Salzburg, exerted an influence on Wolfgang Amadeus’s incomplete swansong of the same genre, while, one the other, the legacy of Salieri has been tainted by false accusations of a ‘plot’ against his younger colleague. Polina Pasztircsák, Corinna Scheurle, who is part-Hungarian, Martin Mitterrutzner and Konstantin Fedotov will ensure the two superb compositions are suitably uplifting.
Program and cast
Conductor: Howard Williams
Featuring:
soprano: Polina Pasztircsák
alto: Corinna Scheurle
tenor: Martin Mitterrutzner
bass: Konstantin Fedotov
Orfeo Orchestra (artistic director: György Vashegyi)
Collegium Vocale 1704 (artistic director: Václav Luks)
Program
M. Haydn:
Requiem in C minor
interval
Salieri:
Requiem in C minor
Palace of Arts Müpa Budapest
When Müpa Budapest, Hungary and its capital's new cultural hub, opened in 2005, it was built to represent more than 100 years of Hungarian cultural history. As a conglomeration of cultural venues, the building has no precedent in 20th century Hungarian architecture and has no peers in the whole of Central Europe.
The creators of this ambitious project, the Trigránit Development Corporation, prime contractor Arcadom Construction and the Zoboki, Demeter and Partners Architectural Office, were driven by the desire to create a new European cultural citadel as part of the new Millennium City Centre complex along the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Danube waterfront. The result is a facility whose construction quality, appearance, functionality and 21st century technological infrastructure makes it ideally suited to productions of the highest standard. The building is also highly versatile and equipped to host performances of any genre and almost any scale.
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