Serena Bozzo Soprano
Margherita Maria Sala Mezzo-soprano
Salvatore De Benedetto Tenor
Piermarco Viñas Bass

Cappella Musicale della Cattedrale di Pisa
Orchestra da Camera di Mantova

Coro di voci bianche Bonamici
Angelica Ditaranto Choirmaster

Riccardo Donati Conductor

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Mass in B flat major ‘Theresienmesse’, Hob:XXII:12 for solo voices, choir and orchestra

Anonymus author, Nenia Basca
Licinio Refice (1883-1954), Dormi non piangere
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897),
Ninna Nanna
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), La Vergine degli angeli (transcript M. Spaccazocchi)
Traditional, Noël Noël

Franz Joseph Haydn spent most of his long career in Austria, as a chapel master at the Esterházy court. Composed by the staff of this family’s private chapel, in the midst of the two most famous and most frequently executed sisters, the Missa in Angustiis and the Missa solemnis in B flat major, the Theresienmesse of 1799 unjustifiably produced lesser fortune. Even the nickname is veiled by misunderstandings: it is commonly believed that Teresa, to which she is named, is the great Roman sacred Maria Theresa empress, happily passed away nineteen years before the composition of the mass. It is instead the more modest Maria Teresa, consort of the emperor Francesco I; although in reality, the true dedicator of this, as of all the other Masses composed by Haydn from 1795 onwards, was the beautiful princess Marie Hermenegild Esterházy born Liechtenstein, wife of Nicolaus II.

ADMISSION IS WITH FREE TICKET
The free entrance tickets (max 2 per person) can be picked up only at the Sinopie Museum on 13 December from 10:00 to 18:30 and 14 December from 10:00 to 20:45 while seats last. You cannot make telephone reservations or by e-mail.
There is no special area reserved for disabled persons; tickets are free for everyone. Those with restricted mobility and wheelchair users only who wish to attend the concerts should email to ensure that appropriate spaces are available, in compliance with safety regulations.

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