Name: Music for an Empress
Start: 2023-11-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Milton Court Concert Hall

Organization

Conductor

Laurence Cummings

Singer

Alexandra Lowe

Soprano

Soloist

Orchestra

Academy of Ancient Music

Music for an Empress

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Milton Court Concert Hall

Cambridge

West Road Concert Hall

Public

Private

La Sofonisba

Symphony No. 48 in C major, Maria Theresia

Il Ruggiero

Alceste

Symphony No. 7 in D major, K. 45

Perché, se tanti siete (Berenice, che fai)

Approved

The Academy of Ancient Music travels to the Vienna of Empress Maria Theresa – where genius paid court, and music flourished in magnificent (and unexpected) new ways.

They called her the 'mother-in-law of Europe', but as monarch, war-leader, diplomat and patron of the arts, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was one or the most extraordinary rulers in European history. Tonight, the Academy of Ancient Music pays homage: recreating an era of splendour, innovation and music without limits.

Some of the names need no introduction – and Gluck, Haydn and the young Mozart were just some of the stars who shone around Maria Theresa’s throne. But just as the Empress herself defied convention, so the Academy of Ancient Music will explore some more neglected names too: Maria Teresa Agnesi and Marianna Martinez are composers of striking originality and inspiration who flourished during the reign of a truly exceptional woman.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble