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About The Programme
Swiss Summer Nights
Music history is full of evidence that the night can inspire creative and musical flights of fancy. In this special programme, we explore how music sounds for, about and in the night – starting with Mozart's famous «Eine kleine Nachtmusik» through a restless, stormy summer night in Vivaldi's «Four Seasons» to the delicate lullaby by Paul Juon from Graubünden. Saint-Saëns' «Danse macabre» in a special arrangement for harp and orchestra invites us to dance at midnight – and, with death playing the music in the setting of the symphonic poem, also brings the symbol of the twilight of life into play. In Juon's «Five Pieces for String Orchestra», alongside dance-like melodies, echoes of evening or night-time ballads can also be heard.
The late Romantic Geneva composer George Templeton Strong proves that music not only lives in and for the night, but also lives on afterwards with his «Chorale on a Theme of Leo Hassler» – in which he incorporates a 17th-century melody by Hassler that ultimately became world-famous through Bach's chorales.
Lineup
SHERNIYAZ MUSSAKHAN, violin
ALEXANDER BOLDACHEV, harp
SWISS ORCHESTRA
LENA-LISA WÜSTENDÖRFER, conductor
programme
Works by Paul Juon, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saëns and George Templeton Strong
- 18:30Doors open
- 19:30concert (incl. break)
- 21:30Approx. end time
Stadttheater
Olten
How to get there
BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT
About 5 minutes on foot from Olten train station
BY CAR
OL10 car park
Public parking along the Aare
barrier-free access
BARRIER-FREE ACCESS
Access to the Olten City Theatre is barrier-free through the main entrance on Frohburgstrasse. A wheelchair accessible toilet is available right at the entrance.
WHEELCHAIR
Wheelchair spaces can be made available on request in rows 1 to 7. To ensure that wheelchair spaces are not occupied by unauthorized persons, they are not available online. They can only be booked through the theatre office: 062 289 7000; info@stadttheater-olten.ch
HOW TO GET THERE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
The OL10 car park opposite is wheelchair accessible
HEARING AIDS
You can borrow our headphones free of charge at the box office. The audio bars work throughout the theatre, including on the balcony.
Garderobe
A cloakroom is available in the lobby.
evening ticket office
Doors open / late entry
Discount
Sherniyaz Mussakhan, the concertmaster of the Swiss Orchestra, was born in 1993. He has performed as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London), the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Astana Opera Symphony Orchestra and others. He has appeared at various festivals including the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the Sion Festival and the Stars at the Rhein Festival, and has performed as a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Hofburg in Vienna, the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg and in the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory. In addition to his performing activities, Mussakhan is also the founder and artistic director of various cultural projects such as the Basel Infinity Festival, the YES Chamber Orchestra and the Dialoge Festival.
Alexander Boldachev is a virtuoso harpist, composer, teacher, and founder of the Zurich Harp Festival. He received a Master’s degree from the Zurich Academy of Arts, studying with Catherine Michel (harp), Mathias Steinauer (composition) and Marc Kissoczy (conducting). He has won awards at over a dozen international competitions including the “Prix Walo” and the “ProEuropa”.
Alexander Boldachev has performed in the USA, England, Canada, France, Japan, Brazil, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Argentina, Hungary, Italy, Russia and elsewhere, and has been a guest at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Great Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg. In 2018, he wrote and performed an electronic harp solo at the FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony, sharing the stage with Robbie Williams and Aida Garifullina. Boldachev was given the prize for the “Best Rock Cover Song” at the Akademia Music Awards in Los Angeles, for a unique performance of the song “Californication” by the American band Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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