Amoureuses de Mozart

Concert in the Les Grands accords Classica series

Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

Without intermission

Montréal

Salle Claude-Champagne

220 Vincent-D’Indy Ave.

Outremont

In this three-act concert, the radiant and promising voices of Quebec's rising lyrical talents, accompanied by the city’s finest Baroque orchestra, join forces to celebrate love. A vibrant tribute to the admiration Mozart held for his female performers, this concert-collage brings together the most exquisite melodies of his stand-out masterworks The Clemency of Titus, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Magic Flute. An inspiring elegy to emotion and vocal virtuosity, this concert paints a series of tableaux that shift between shadow and light, capturing the beauty of these heroines' characters and the tumult of their passions. Experience the sheer magic of these spellbinding melodies by the most ardent of composers.

NOM 2024

Amoureuses de Mozart

Excerpts from the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Concert+ version

Elisabeth St-Gelais, soprano
Sophie Naubert, soprano
Michelle Bawden, soprano
Amelia Keenan, mezzo-soprano

Arion Orchestre Baroque
Mathieu Lussier, conductor

Matthieu Thoër, for Lumifest en cavale, digital artist

Maxime Bigras, illustrations
Isabeau Proulx Lemire, stage manager 

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

La Clemenza di Tito, K. 621 (1791)
  Overture
  S’altro che lagrime

  Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio

  Ah perdona all primo affetto  

  Non più di fiori

Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 (1773)
  Alleluia

Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (1786)
  Overture
  Via resti servita, Madama brillante
  Porgi amor
  Non so più
  Al Desio
  Voi che sapete
  Dove sono

Die Zauberflöte, K. 620 (1791)
  Overture
  O Zittre Nicht
  Ach ich fühl’s
  Der Hölle Rache
  Drei Damen Strib, Ungeheuer