Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe at Cadogan Hall, London on Thursday 28th March 2019

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Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe

Part of the The Mozartists 2018/19 Season

Add to my Calendar 28-03-2019 19:30 28-03-2019 21:30 36 Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe Piramo e Tisbe was first performed at an unidentified country estate near Vienna in the autumn of 1768. Hasse himself regarded it as his finest work, and it is by far the most experimental and forward-looking of his compositions, incorporating and developing many of Gluck’s operatic reforms in music of sumptuous lyricism and pathos. The richly textured and often through-composed score was as unusual in its time as the subject matter, which is drawn from a tragic tale in Book 4 of Ovid’s celebrated Metamorphoses, and  this long-overdue UK première promises to be one of the highlights of the London opera season. Sung in the original Italian with English surtitles. Pre-concert talk, 6.15pm (free entry with concert ticket)     Cadogan Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England

Thursday 28th March 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Johann Adolph Hasse – Piramo e Tisbe

Performers

Chiara Skerath – soprano
Gwilym Bowen – Tenor
Ian Page – Conductor
Kiandra Howarth – soprano

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Programme Note

Piramo e Tisbe was first performed at an unidentified country estate near Vienna in the autumn of 1768. Hasse himself regarded it as his finest work, and it is by far the most experimental and forward-looking of his compositions, incorporating and developing many of Gluck’s operatic reforms in music of sumptuous lyricism and pathos. The richly textured and often through-composed score was as unusual in its time as the subject matter, which is drawn from a tragic tale in Book 4 of Ovid’s celebrated Metamorphoses, and this long-overdue UK première promises to be one of the highlights of the London opera season.

Sung in the original Italian with English surtitles.

Pre-concert talk, 6.15pm (free entry with concert ticket)

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