Concert preview III Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra concert

European Mozart Ways visit the Mozart Week 2025

The last of the Vienna Philharmonic’s three concerts as part of Mozart Week 2025 will be performed by Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv in the Grosses Festspielhaus. Oksana Lyniv is not only the first female conductor to perform at the Bayreuth Festival, she is also the initiator of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, which was founded in 2016 and is still actively performing today despite the war.

The orchestra has been a Young Ambassador of the European Mozart Ways since 2021. In their third concert, the Vienna Philharmonic has definitely put together a varied and fascinating program for Mozart Week 2025. The mixture of Mozart works is particularly exciting, with the Violin Concerto in D major with Rainer Honeck as concertmaster and the Symphony in G minor, as well as the Suite from the opera Alcide by Bortniansky, an opera by the Ukrainian-Russian composer of the 18th century, whose operatic music is characterized by the influence of Italian and French music and is very rarely performed. Oksana Lyniv is bringing a composer from her homeland into the focus of this Mozart Week.

And then there is the tenor Juan Diego Flórez, who should create a special special atmosphere with two arias from the opera La clemenza di Tito and a concert aria. George Frideric Handel’s Water Music Suite No. 3 in G major HWV 350 will complement Destination Mozart on this evening.

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