ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Davies «Bernstein: Mass» - Schedule, Program & Tickets

PERFORMERS
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Wiener Singakademie, Chor
Einstudierung: Heinz Ferlesch
Opernschule der Wiener Staatsoper, Kinderchor
Einstudierung: Johannes Mertl
Company of Music, Street Chorus (Vokalensemble)
Einstudierung: Johannes Hiemetsberger
Vojtěch Dyk, Celebrant (Bariton)
Dennis Russell Davies, Dirigent

PROGRAM
Leonard Bernstein
Mass. Ein Theaterstück für Sänger, Instrumentalisten und Tänzer (1971)
Konzertante Aufführung

ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna / Davies «Amber: Mass»
"Mass", the masterpiece by Leonard Bernstein, commissioned by Jackie Kennedy for the opening of the Kennedy Center in Washington in 1971, had its first European performance at the Vienna Konzerthaus in 1973. On the occasion of the Amber Year 2018, the rarely performed work with Vojtěch Dyk in the role of the celebrant, several Viennese choirs and the RSO Vienna under the direction of his former chief conductor Dennis Russel Davies is once again on the program.