Ascanio in Alba (concertante)

Linke Wienzeile 6

1060 Wien

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 15 years old when, in 1771, he composed his serenataAscanio in Alba for the wedding of Archduke Ferdinand and Princess Maria Beatrice d’Este in Milan. The work is a typical allegory, portraying Empress Maria Theresa, the Archduke’s mother, as Venus, goddess of love, who brings her son Ascanio together with the wife that is right for him. The young Mozart’s music, with its numerous choruses and arias in the style of opera seria, was very well received by the wedding guests and the marriage of the prince and princess was to be a happy one. The collaboration that has existed for many years between Christophe Rousset with his ensemble Les Talens Lyriques and the MusikTheater an der Wien is also extremely harmonious. For Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba he brings top-class singers with him such as the sopranos Anna El-Kashem and Rocío Pérez, tenor Alasdair Kent, and Mélissa Petit who most recently appeared at the MusikTheater an der Wien as the eponymous heroine in Roméo et Juliette.

Concert performance in Italian with German surtitles

(Source: theater-wien.at)