Giovanni Antonini, Julia Lezhneva

Abo E
Bamberg, Konzerthalle, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal
17:00 Uhr

Playful spirit on the opera and orchestral stage! Giovanni Antonini guides us as a conducting director through a program filled with great emotions and dramatic surprises. In the first part, we take a journey through the enchanting world of Italian music, which in the 19th century revolved prominently around opera. Many composers excelled in this field, and we look forward to wonderful arias by important bel canto masters such as Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, and Giovanni Paisiello — not forgetting a concert aria by Ludwig van Beethoven. We are also delighted to welcome once again the acclaimed soprano Julia Lezhneva as our soloist. To conclude, we immerse ourselves in a magnificent work by a composer of whom it was written: “No one can do everything — tease and shake, provoke laughter and deep emotion — and do it all equally well, as Haydn can.” He loved to play with the audience’s expectations and was therefore also called the “Shakespeare of music.” His Symphony No. 104, the “Salomon,” was his last; he composed it in the spring of 1795 during his second journey to England for a benefit concert. The Morning Chronicle reported on the premiere at the Haymarket Theatre in London on May 6: “Haydn showed his gratitude to his benevolent friends by writing a new symphony for the occasion, which some of the best judges believe surpasses all his other works in every movement in fullness, richness, and majesty.” With this masterpiece of the Classical period, Joseph Haydn crowns our concert today in his own distinctive way!

Giovanni Antonini Conductor
Julia Lezhneva Soprano

Joseph Martin Krauss Ouvertüre zur Schauspielmusik »Olympie«
Arien von Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini und Giovanni Paisiello
Joseph Haydn Symphonie D-Dur Hob. I:104 »Salomon«