Edition 2025

This sparkling comedy is one of Mozart’s most popular early operas. It was premièred in Munich in January 1775, and Mozart wrote home to his mother: “My opera turned out so well that it is impossible for me to describe… After every aria there was the most frightening clamour, with clapping and shouts of ‘Viva Maestro!’”. Our cast features an outstanding line-up of young singers headed by Ava Dodd and Hugo Brady.

Musicians

• Ava Dodd (soprano) - Sandrina
• Camilla Harris (soprano) - Arminda
• Milly Forrest (soprano) - Serpetta
• Laura Fleur (mezzo-soprano) : Ramiro
• Hugo Brady (ténor) : Belfiore
• Michael Bell (ténor) - Podesta
• Jerome Knox (baryton) - Nardo
• The Mozartists
• Ian Page chef d'orchestre

A tribute concert to Early Music in Vigevano, a beautiful town close to Milan both geographically and historically. Here, during the Renaissance, the Sforza Court moved from Milan; moreover, important figures such as Ludovico il Moro, Leonardo da Vinci and Donato Bramante lived here. The venue for the concert is the splendid San Dionigi Auditorium - a deconsecrated Baroque church that represents the temple of music in Vigevano - located a few meters from the fabulous Piazza Ducale. The focus of concert will be Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Palestrina, 1525 – Roma, 2 febbraio 1594), on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of his birth.

Musicians Musicians and singers of artistic production collective "Bottega dei Suoni"

In 1685, Pierre Gaultier obtained Lully's permission to open the very first provincial opera house. From then on, opera became a Marseilles institution, central to the musical and cultural life of an entire region. Based on instrumental works by Gaultier, Concerto Soave has built a program around French opera of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Lully is obviously present, but also Campra and Mouret, immense opera composers born in our region.

Musicians

• Concerto Soave
• Gabrielle Varbetian, soprano
• Romain Bockler, baritone
• Federica Basilico, Charlotte Gerbitz, violins
• Marine Rodallec, cello
• Jean-Marc Aymes, harpsichord and conductor

Baroque music on original instruments between 1730 and 1750 | as part of the European Early Music Day ‘Celebrate early music! – is the motto of the European Early Music Day. Kammerata Luxembourg is celebrating the occasion with a concert on historic instruments at the Saint-Hubert church in Merscheid. The focal point of the evening is the Swiss philosopher, writer and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who said of himself: ‘I was surely born for music, since I loved it from childhood, and since I loved it constantly at all times’. The concert programme is dedicated to Rousseau’s musical contemporaries, and invites you to take a cross-border journey through the Baroque period, focusing on Telemann, Bach, Barsanti, Scarlatti, Handel, Geminiani and Rameau. Playing on period instruments will make this musical journey authentic. GP Telemann | Quatuor parisien no.2 TWV 43:a2 | oboe, violin, bass viol, continuo CPE Bach | Sonata H 549 | oboe, b.c. Francesco Barsanti | A collection of Old Scots Tunes (extr.) Domenico Scarlatti | Sonata K.69 | harpsichord GF Händel | Trio HWV 386a | violin, oboe, b.c. Francesco Geminiani | A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick (extr.) JP Rameau | Pièces de clavecin en concert – Cinquième concert | harpsichord, violin, oboe, viola da gamba Information / Booking Tickets may only be purchased at the evening box office Reservations not required via info@kammerata.lu Tickets: 25 € | < 30 years: 15 € | Kulturpass welcome

Musicians

Ensemble Kammerata Luxembourg:

• Raffaella Bortolini, baroque oboe 
• Isabel Van Grysperre, baroque violin 
• Borbala Janitsek, viola da gamba 
• Fons Van der Linden, harpsichord

Programme with the Conservatoire choir and the early music orchestra based on De Lalande's ‘De Profundis’.

Musicians

Vocalitas Choir, Helios Orchestra

On 21 March, the Köthen Bach Festival traditionally celebrates Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday with a concert in the Church of St. Agnus. This year's festival will be particularly unusual: Margret Köll, one of the best baroque harpists in the world, will be coming to Köthen (Anhalt) for a whole week to work with international students. Together with the Bach Festival director, they are developing a sound festival for the birthday concert that will fill the historic church of St Agnus with harmonies in every corner. The young Chilean singer Romina De la Fuente Villarroel, who has been living in Weimar for several years, will also be a guest. The musical celebration will feature the most beautiful sounds and repertoire highlights for and with harp from around 150 years, from the invention of opera at the beginning of the 17th century to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Together with the great baroque master, the composer Alfred Tokayer, who was also born in Köthen (Anhalt) on 21 March, will be celebrated. He was born in 1900 to a Jewish family in the city of Bach and received his first musical training here. In the 1920s, he made a career in Berlin and worked for theatre legend Max Reinhardt, among others. Tokayer had to flee to France in 1935. He was finally arrested by the Gestapo in Paris in 1942 and - like his parents - was killed in the Sobibor concentration camp in 1942. The concert will be streamed live on YouTube!

Musicians

• Margret Köll, baroque harp
• Romina De la Fuente Villarroel, soprano
• participants from the HARFEN LABORS in Köthen, surprise guests
• Folkert Uhde, animation

In music, the seasons have often inspired composers: Vivaldi but also Lully, Purcell, Boismortier... Similarly, spectacular events (storms, tempests) but also moments of prosperity and calm have inspired musicians. Concert in collaboration with Cherval Avenir

Musicians

• Ensemble Les Meslanges
• Van EssenThomas, baritone
• Van Waerbeke Jérôme, violin
• Hernandez Frédéric, harpsichord

Wine! The wine of the influential Court of Burgundy, a great wine-growing region, and the recently revived Domaine des Sénons, are in the limelight at the opening of the La Reverdie Festival. The musicians of Obsidienne, conducted by Emmanuel Bonnardot, will be singing it, from Carmina Burana (13th century) to the earthy polyphonies of the Renaissance; Valérie and Stéphane, the chefs from the restaurant Les Mauvaises Herbes, will be accompanying it with exquisite sweet and savoury bites. An exceptional evening in an exceptional setting!

Musicians

• Ensemble Obsidienne
• Restaurant Mauvaises Herbes
• Domaine des Sénons