A Night of Mozart & Rachmaninov
Sat 09 June 2023, 08 pm
Saigon Opera House
No. 7 Công trường Lam Sơn, Bến Nghé Ward, D.1, HCMC
One of the most admired composers and pianists of his generation, Sergei Rachmaninov was born 150 years ago. To celebrate the anniversary of his birth, The HBSO is presenting an evening of his music along with pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Beginning the evening is the overture from Cosi fan Tutte, K. 588. The two-part opera was performed only five times during Mozart’s lifetime. As social norms changed in the 19th and 20th Centuries, audiences began to see the opera’s exploration of infidelity as vulgar and inappropriate. Thus it was not until after World War II that it was routinely performed again.
The overture will be followed by Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K 467. Completed in 1785, the string, brass, piano and woodwind…
