Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828):
Ouverture im Italienischen Stile D591
Gioachino ROSSINI (1792-1868):
La morte di Didone
Franz SCHUBERT:
Symphony No.9 ‘Great’ D944
Julie Fuchs soprano
Collegium Vocale Gent male choir
Freiburger Barockorchester orchestra
Pablo Heras-Cesado conductor
More concerts
- 09/12/2026 | 19:30La morte di Didone Valencia, ES
- 04/12/2026 | 19:30La morte di Didone Sion, CH
- 05/12/2026 | 20:00La morte di Didone Lugano, CH
- 06/12/2026 | 18:00La morte di Didone Köln, DE
- 08/12/2026 | 20:00La morte di Didone Freiburg, DE
La morte di Didone
With this programme, leading conductor Pablo Heras-Casado explores the creative tension between Italian operatic drama and Viennese symphonic imagination. At its heart is Rossini’s La morte di Didone, a rarely performed cantata — or, one might say, a “miniature opera” — in which soprano Julie Fuchs, together with the male choir of Collegium Vocale Gent, brings to life the final, deeply affecting hours of Dido. The renewed collaboration with the Freiburger Barockorchester, a leading ensemble in historically informed performance practice, results in a transparent, rhetorically shaped and highly expressive sound world that allows this score to fully come into its own. The programme opens with Schubert’s Ouvertüre im italienischen Stile and culminates in his Symphony No.9, the “Great” in C major, where expansive melodic writing and symphonic force converge in a visionary and grand conclusion.