The Freiburger Barockorchester, a leading ensemble in historically informed performance, comes to the LAC under the baton of Pablo Heras-Casado, alongside the Collegium Vocale Gent and soprano Julie Fuchs. The programme weaves together melodrama and symphony, spanning Rossini and Schubert, and creating a dialogue between Italian opera and the Viennese tradition.

Straddling theatre and symphony, the programme La morte di Didone connects Italian opera with the Viennese tradition in a journey spanning Rossini and Schubert. The concert opens with Schubert’s Overture im italienischen Stil: in early 19th-century Vienna, deeply influenced by the spread of Italian opera, this piece by Schubert succeeded in reworking its suggestions and models with lightness and inventiveness.
At the heart of the programme, Rossini’s cantata La morte di Didone unfolds as a grand scene of intense theatrical power. Through recitatives, choral passages and lyrical moments, the figure of Dido takes shape on a journey towards a tragic conclusion, keeping the tension between words and music alive and vivid.
In the second part, Symphony No. 9 in C major La Grande reveals a Schubert with a broader symphonic scope, featuring a continuous musical flow and a rich transformation of thematic material.
The concert intertwines theatre and symphony, capturing the variety and vitality of European musical languages from the first half of the 19th century.