Vivat Mozart! An evening with the most beautiful opera arias

Mozart wrote twenty-two operas, ten of them as a teenager. Thanks to the phenomenon of their extraordinary freshness and topicality, which continues to this day, he was hailed the best opera composer of all time.

The real boom in opera came after his moving to Vienna. Having trouble finding a permanent job, Mozart earned his living composing operas. Most of them commented on the social life of that time.

Most of all, Mozart had an extraordinary gift for selecting the texts that he transformed into operas. One of the most successful decisions was to tackle Pierre de Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro – a hilarious and controversial panorama of society in which the characters are guided by extremely realistic motivations previously not shown.

A year after its premiere, the Prague opera commissioned Mozart a piece on the occasion of the wedding of Archduchess Maria Theresa, the niece of Emperor Joseph II. As a story worthy of a sacred union, the composer chose the fate of the worst sex maniac in history – Don Juan. This is how the opera Don Giovanni was created, which immediately turned out to be a gigantic success in Prague.


In the last year of his life, Mozart composed "The Magic Flute" for a story about good and evil, redemption through virtue and the Queen of the Night. It would be difficult for us to convincingly summarize the intricate fate of all the fantastic heroes (and their even more fantastic behavior), but in the end, light, good, wisdom, beauty and love triumph (in operas it is extremely rare), which in addition to the famous arias contributed to becoming the most popular opera in the history.

Aleksandra Olczyk, who will make her debut in 2021 as the Queen of the Night at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, will take us on an adventure with the most perfect arias of Mozart's operas. She has already performed this role with great success at the Teatro Real, Opéra de Lille, Helsinki National Opera, Berlin Deutsche Oper and Komische Oper, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Grand Theater – National Opera, Opera Nova, Joburg Opera in Johannesburg, Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in New York and at festivals in Perth and Adelaide, Australia. She constantly collaborates with the directors and conductors such as Christopher Alden, Nicola Brieger, Barrie Kosky, Ivor Bolton and Gabriel Chmura.

In 2020 Aleksandra Olczyk received the title of Coryphaeus of Polish Music.

The Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by Rune Bergmann.

Program:

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Overture to the opera Don Giovanni KV 527
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Aria of the Queen of the Night Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen from Act II of the opera The Magic Flute
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Overture to the opera The Magic Flute KV 620
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Aria of the Queen of the Night O zittre nicht – Zum Leiden from Act I of the opera The Magic Flute
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Overture to the opera The Marriage of Figaro KV 492
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Susanna's Aria Deh vieni non tardar, o gioa bella from act IV of the opera The Marriage of Figaro
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 25 in G minor KV 183

Vivat Mozart ! concert already on Friday, May 21st at 7:00 PM in the golden symphony hall of the Philharmonic. Tickets at the price of PLN 45-55 can be purchased via the website filharmonia.szczecin.pl. Tickets at the Philharmonic ticket office will be available from May 21st from 10:00 AM.

The concert will also be broadcast on LiveFilharmonia.szczecin.pl. Access to the platform costs PLN 10/20.