Internationally acclaimed conductor Honna Tetsuji will lead a concert featuring the music of Mozart at the HCM City Opera House on June 8. Photo courtesy of HBSO HCM City (VNS/VNA) -Internationally acclaimed conductor Honna Tetsuji will lead a concert featuringthe music of Mozart at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on June 8.
The concert will open with the Overture from the three-act opera DieEntführung aus dem Serail (The Abductionfrom the Seraglio).
Mozart wrote the opera to aGerman libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie, based on Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung ausdem Serail (Belmonte and Konstanze, The Abduction from the Seraglio).
The play is about the attempt ofhero Belmonte to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio (sequesteredliving quarters used by wives and concubines in an Ottoman household) ofPasha Selim.
It premiered in July 1782 at theVienna Burgtheater, with the composer as the conductor.
The performance will feature theHCM City Opera Symphony Orchestra and Ballet’s (HBSO) symphony orchestra.
The night will continue with thethree-movement Sinfonia Concertante forViolin, Viola and Orchestra composed in 1779.
The work will be played byviolinist Nguyen Cong Thang and violist Pham Vu Thien Bao.
Thang graduated from the VietnamAcademy of Music and later studied at the Hong Kong Music Academy.
He has performed with the HongKong Music Academy Orchestra in Austria, France, Italy, the UK and Thailand.
Bao holds a master'sdegree in viola performance from the Paris National Conservatory of Music.
He has worked with many renownedmusicians and orchestras, and performed at many music festivals in France.
In 2015, Bao returned to Vietnamand launched his musical projects to develop classical music in the country.
The programme will include Symphony No. 35, which is also called the Haffner Symphony.
Mozart wrote the symphony in 1782to mark the birthday of a member of the Haffners, a prominent familyin Salzburg, Austria. It premiered in 1983 at the Vienna Burgtheater.
The four-movement work will beperformed by HBSO.
Conductor Tetsuji studied at theRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the LondonSinfonietta, an English contemporary chamber orchestra.
He has won several top prizes atinternational competitions, including the Tokyo International Competition,Arturo Toscanini International Conductor Competition, and BudapestInternational Conductor Competition.
He has conducted numerousorchestras including La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy, the HungarianState Symphony Orchestra and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra.
He was appointed music advisorand conductor of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) from2001-2009, and as the orchestra's director from 2011.
He took the VNSO to performat New York's Carnegie Hall and Boston Symphony Hall in the US in2011, the Teatro La Fenice Venice opera house, Capella Paolina chapel andItalian Presidential Palace in Italy in 2013, and the Grand Hall of theMoscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Grand Hall of the SaintPetersburg Philharmonic in Russia in 2014.
The concert will begin at 8pm at7 Lam Son square in District 1. Tickets are available at the venue.-VNS/VNA
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