The season 2020—21 will be inaugurated by one of the most famous works in the history of music, Handel’s Messiah, and this “messianic” spirit pervades the dramaturgy of the whole concert series. The unconventional programme of the Advent concert will recreate the atmosphere of Italian Baroque Christmas and we shall celebrate the arrival of the New Year with Mozart’s Coronation Mass.
The Collegium 1704 Baroque Opera Stars concert series will continue on 18 March 2014 with a concert titled Il divino Boemo, featuring the music of Josef Mysliveček and Christoph Willibald Gluck, who both gathered their first musical experiences in Bohemia, and whose artistry was later admired all over Europe. This fact has also been underscored by the recent production of Mysliveček’s opera L'Olimpiade performed by Collegium 1704 with Václav Luks. That production has enjoyed triumphant successes on European opera stages and has been recently nominated to Opera Awards in Rediscovered Works.
