Giovanni Antonini, Czech Philharmonic

ABOUT THE CONCERT

What better way is there to end a subscription series full of symphonies and concertos? Giovanni Antonini has put together a stylistically pure programme resembling an opera gala with numbers by Mozart and Rossini, and he has invited the soprano Louise Alder.

PROGRAMME

Gioacchino Rossini

The Barber of Seville, overture to the opera

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Voi avete un cor fedele”, concert aria for soprano and orchestra, K 217

Joseph Haydn

L'isola disabitata, overture to the opera, Hob. XXVIII/9

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Ei parte” and “Per pietà”, recitative and rondo from the opera Così fan tutte, K 588

Franz Schubert

Symphony in B minor, D 759 “Unfinished”, Allegro moderato

Gioacchino Rossini

“Assisa ai piè di un salice”, aria from the opera Otello

Franz Schubert

Overture in C major, Op. 170 “In the Italian Style”

Gioacchino Rossini

“Tanti affetti in tal momento”, aria from the opera La donna del lago

PERFORMERS 

Louise Alder soprano

Giovanni Antonini conductor

Czech Philharmonic