Music & concerts
"Wir tanzen und springen" – Season-closing concert 2025/26
The Haydn Foundation brings its 2025/26 symphonic season to a close with a concert conducted by Michele Mariotti at the Bolzano City Theatre. The programme features two landmarks of late German Romanticism: Richard Strauss's "Four Last Songs" and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4. The soloist for the evening is Armenian soprano Hasmik Torosyan.
The concert is held in collaboration with the Conservatories of Bolzano and Trento, whose students are once again integrated into the Haydn Orchestra.
Richard Strauss composed the "Four Last Songs" in the final years of his life, setting poems by Joseph von Eichendorff and Hermann Hesse between 1946 and 1948. Published posthumously by editor Ernst Roth in 1949, they are widely regarded as one of the last great achievements of the Romantic orchestral song.
Mahler's Symphony No. 4, originally conceived as a "symphonic humoresque", breaks with Romantic convention and closes with the song "Der Himmel hängt voller Geigen" from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" — a childlike vision of paradise that Mahler himself described as an "upside-down world" where causality has no place.
Michele Mariotti, Music Director of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma since 2022 and winner of the Premio Abbiati as best conductor, reflects on the symphony: Mahler's works resist any definitive interpretation and shift meaning as the world changes around us — an invitation to see life with the openness of a child.
Hasmik Torosyan, soloist at the Armenian National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre since 2011, has performed across Europe, Latin America and Asia. Recent engagements include concerts with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and performances at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
The concert is repeated the same evening at 8:30 pm at the Auditorium in Trento.
More information: www.haydn.it
The concert is held in collaboration with the Conservatories of Bolzano and Trento, whose students are once again integrated into the Haydn Orchestra.
Richard Strauss composed the "Four Last Songs" in the final years of his life, setting poems by Joseph von Eichendorff and Hermann Hesse between 1946 and 1948. Published posthumously by editor Ernst Roth in 1949, they are widely regarded as one of the last great achievements of the Romantic orchestral song.
Mahler's Symphony No. 4, originally conceived as a "symphonic humoresque", breaks with Romantic convention and closes with the song "Der Himmel hängt voller Geigen" from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" — a childlike vision of paradise that Mahler himself described as an "upside-down world" where causality has no place.
Michele Mariotti, Music Director of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma since 2022 and winner of the Premio Abbiati as best conductor, reflects on the symphony: Mahler's works resist any definitive interpretation and shift meaning as the world changes around us — an invitation to see life with the openness of a child.
Hasmik Torosyan, soloist at the Armenian National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre since 2011, has performed across Europe, Latin America and Asia. Recent engagements include concerts with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and performances at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
The concert is repeated the same evening at 8:30 pm at the Auditorium in Trento.
More information: www.haydn.it
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