OAE 2017/18 season brochure

2017–18 concert diary

Six Chapters of Enlightenment Part One

Visions, Illusions and Delusions

The Judas Passion Can the ultimate betrayal ever be forgiven?

Monday 25 September 2017 St John’s Smith Square Sally Beamish – The Judas Passion

Six Chapters of Enlightenment Part One Visions, Illusions and Delusions ‘I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.’

Can I trust my senses?

Is what I perceive to be true really there?

The philosophers of the era we now call the Enlightenment started with these radical doubts. So it’s where we start Six Chapters of Enlightenment, six special seasons exploring the thought that made the modern world.

Join us for an adventure in uncertainty, scepticism and mistrust, through the music of Mozart, Bach, Handel and many more.

David Harsent – libretto Nicholas McGegan – conductor Julia Doyle – Mary Brendan Gunnell – Judas Roderick Williams – Christ Choir of the Age of Enlightenment A co-commission with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Part of Southbank Centre’s festival Belief and Beyond Belief Handel’s Semele Be careful what you wish for.

Wednesday 18 October 2017 Royal Festival Hall Handel – Semele Ivor Bolton – conductor Louise Alder – Semele Xavier Sabata – Athamas Jeremy Ovenden – Jupiter Brindley Sherratt – Somnus /Cadmus Mary Bevan – Iris Sonia Prina – Juno Mozart: Master of Deception with Rachel Podger There is more to Mozart than meets the eye.

Monday 27 November 2017 St John’s Smith Square Haydn – Symphony No. 36 Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 1 JC Bach – Symphony in G minor Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5 Rachel Podger – director / violin

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Marin Alsop and Nicola Benedetti Nicola Benedetti’s first appearance with us.

Sunday 4 February 2018 Royal Festival Hall Beethoven – Symphony No. 4 in B flat major Beethoven – Violin Concerto Marin Alsop – conductor Nicola Benedetti – violin The Corridors of Power What wins – love or duty?

Tuesday 27 February 2018 Royal Festival Hall Mozart – Overture from Idomeneo Mozart – Arias including Parto, Ma Tu, Ben Mio from La clemenza di Tito Mozart – Symphony No. 25 Haydn – Scena di Berenice Haydn – Symphony No. 103 Drumroll Ádám Fischer – conductor Christine Rice – mezzo-soprano Bach’s St Matthew Passion A powerful depiction of the Easter story.

Monday 26 March 2018 Royal Festival Hall Bach – St Matthew Passion Mark Padmore – director / Evangelist Roderick Williams – baritone /Christus Katherine Watson – soprano Claudia Huckle – mezzo-soprano Hugo Hymas – tenor Jessica Cale – soprano Eleanor Minney – mezzo-soprano Matthew Brook – bass Choir of the Age of Enlightenment

Mozart: Master of Deception with Sir Roger Norrington More from the ultimate musical game-player.

Wednesday 11 April 2018 Queen Elizabeth Hall Mozart – Symphony No. 33 Mozart – Horn Concerto No. 2 Mozart – Horn Concerto No. 4 Mozart – Symphony No. 36 Sir Roger Norrington – conductor Roger Montgomery – horn Der Rosenkavalier A night at the cinema.

Thursday 17 May 2018 Queen Elizabeth Hall Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier [salon score] Selection of songs by Richard Strauss Tom Kemp – conductor Miah Persson – soprano Dangerous Liaisons The sights and sounds of Versailles.

Tuesday 26 June 2018 Queen Elizabeth Hall Programme including music by Lully, Campra, Charpentier, Clérambault, Destouches, Rameau John Butt – conductor and harpsichord Hubert Hazebroucq – choreographer Anna Dennis – soprano Schiff’s Surprise A game of Haydn seek.

Wednesday 4 July 2018 Queen Elizabeth Hall Haydn – Piano Concerto No. 11 Haydn – Symphony No. 94 Surprise Haydn – Harmoniemesse Sir András Schiff – conductor and piano Choir of the Age of Enlightenment

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