Creating music is an activity without definite outlines. The stylistic diversity of the works gathered in this programme enhances the former statement. From the dramatic splendour of the overture to The Magic Flute to the ceremonious tone of the Haffner Symphony, Mendelssohn’s romantic expressiveness, Friedrich Cerha’s Viennese modernism and the most recent work by António Pinho Vargas will also take place. All along his career, this Portuguese composer already crossed paths as different as jazz and opera. Now, he responds once again to a different challenge, this time invited by Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra.

ORQUESTRA METROPOLITANA DE LISBOA (LISBON METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA)Luís Lucas - voice
Kurt Azesberger - tenor
Michael Zilm - conception and conductor

Programme        
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture to The Magic Flute, K.620

Felix Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Die wandernden Komödianten (1821) - Singspiel Overture (1st Modern Audition)

Friedrich Cerha (1926)
Bevor es zu spät ist, over a text of Thomas Bernhard,  Holzfallen, for tenor and orchestra (1988-1997) (1st Audition in Portugal)

António Pinho Vargas (1951)
A discourse by Thomas Bernhard for narrator and orchestra – (World Première /Commissioned by OML)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no. 35 in D Major, K. 385, Haffner

Co-Prodution: CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM | OML