WED OCT 16, 2024, 8:00 PM
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Mozart awakes. It’s dark and smells of musty fabric. Shadows of skulls and chandeliers cast by moonlight swirl around him. He hears a rustle of cloaks over muted conversations. Masked faces appear around him… is this a dream or reality? 

The colorful sound world of Mozart’s Gran Partita intimately intertwines with Aureliano Cattaneo’s shadowy and dreamy La nuit sombre to form the soundscape of an occult, fever-dream masquerade. 

Escape into obscurity and anonymity through the iron gates of Music Hall’s Gothic frame. Your experience begins at 7:30 pm. 

Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Anna Schubert, soprano
Joanna Lynn-Jacobs, soprano
Mat Sweeney & Sebastian Peters-Lazaro (four larks), production
Pones, actors
Victoria Bower
Hattie Clark
Tabari Crook
Ayauna Goodwin
Ashley Morton
Jensen O'Dell
Naimah Sams
Aiden Sims
Sarah Spurling
Engler Gonzalez, actor
Gavin Gamboa, harpsichord
Katie Baker, illustrations

Production by Sebastian Peters-Lazaro and Mat Sweeney
Pre-Show Sound Design and Harpsichord Performance by Gavin Gamboa
Projection Design by Gavin Gamboa
Costumes for the Sopranos created by Mieko Romming
Make-Up and Hair Design by Pamela Bjorklund
Mask Design by Sebastian Peters-Lazaro with additional design and construction by Stacey Vest

Aureliano CATTANEO (b. 1974)
La nuit sombre per due voci e strumenti nello spazio ("The Dark Night for two voices and instruments in space")
(U.S. Premiere) 

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)
Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, K. 370a (362), Gran Partita

The Dark Night is intended to be performed between movements of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Serenade in B-flat Major, Gran Partita.

La nuit sombre: 1. Prologue—
Gran Partita: I. Largo. Molto Allegro—
La nuit sombre: 2. Réveil et histoire du démoniaque Pascheco
Gran Partita: II. Menuetto
Gran Partita: III. Adagio—
La nuit sombre: 3. Les grottes du chef bohémien
Gran Partita: IV. Menuetto. Allegretto
Gran Partita: V. Romance: Adagio—
La nuit sombre: 4. Esprits de mes ancêtres
Gran Partita: VI. Tema con variazioni
La nuit sombre: 5. Épilogue (Système de Velazquez, conclusion de tout l’ouvrage)—
Gran Partita: VII. Finale. Molto allegro

Aureliano Cattaneo La nuit sombre
Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, U.S. and Canadian agent for Sugarmusic S.P.A, publisher and copyright owner

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation and the Nina Browne Parker Trust, and for the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.