Le Nozze di Figaro and Nelsonmis

Saturday 11 June in the Emmaus Church in The Hague, start 20:15

Sunday 12 June 2022 in the Petruskerk Leiden, starting at 15:30 pm

Order tickets via concertovaliante@ziggo.nl or www.leidskamerkoor.nl: June 11, 2022 https://www.ticketkantoor.nl/shop/meestersDenHaag                            June 12, 2022 https.//www.ticketkantoor.nl/shop/meestersLeiden

The Leids Kamerkoor conducted by Dody Soetanto in collaboration with ConcertoValiante will perform masterpieces of classical music.

A unique collaboration in which these masterpieces are performed in a special way.

Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro The 1786 wedding of Figaro KV 492 was first performed at the Vienna Court Opera where it was not received too enthusiastically, but after a veritable triumphal march past the other major European opera houses, this became one of Mozart’s best operas in Vienna.

The Nelson Mass by F. J. Haydn (1732-1809) The name ‘Nelson Mass’ was given to the work in the 19th century when people wanted to connect specific events to the mass. During the composition of the Mass, the British led by Nelson defeated Napoleon’s fleet at the Battle of Aboukir in the summer of 1798; this event was connected with Haydn’s Mass. Haydn gave Emma, ​​Lady Hamilton the autograph of the work he had written especially for her and which paid tribute to Nelson, the cantata for soprano and keyboard ‘Lines from the Battle of the Nile’. By baroque composer G.F. Handel is on the program for the first part of Dixit Dominus. This is Handel’s setting of Psalm 110 The Lord speaks to my lord. The composer, then 22, incorporated insights he had gained during a study of Italian opera.

Arvo Pärt is one of the greatest contemporary classical composers. Two days after the attacks in Madrid on 11 March 2004, he started composing Da pacem  Domine, “Give us peace, Lord”,  The Leids Kamerkoor sings this contemplative work for you.

Tickets: regular presale € 19.50; <18 or student € 12.00; <12 years free                  Tickets on the day € 25.00.