Bastien and Bastienne by Mozart, Sat 22 Samh 2014, Ó (2014/2014), Faoi stiúir Wacław Jankowski, Seoltóir Michał Łukasz Niżyński

An idyllic tale of love. Bastienne, suspecting that her lover Bastien is being unfaithful to her, ask a soothsayer Colas for help. He arranges for the lovers to confront each other. A juvenile work by W.A. Mozart, it has been composed in 1768 on the order of a famous Viennese physician – Antonio Mesmer, a proponent of the so-called ‘animal magnetism’. The prototype of its storyline was an opera comique ‘Le devin du village’ (‘A Village Soothsayer’) by the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau.