Anna Prohaska & Ensemble Resonanz

Star soprano Anna Prohaska and conductor Nicolas Ellis combine forces with Ensemble Resonanz to present a programme of 'Love and Betrayal', with music by Berg and Mozart. Mozart's 'Haffner' Symphony No. 35 serves as the backbone of the programme, and the performance intertwines encrypted love messages from Berg's 'Lyric Suite' with the dizzying emotional states expressed in many of Mozart's most famous arias, including from Le Nozze di Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte.

Nicolas Ellis (conductor)

Anna Prohaska (soprano)

Ensemble Resonanz

Since her debut in Berlin aged 18, soprano Anna Prohaska has since gone on to have an extraordinary international career with some of the world’s greatest opera houses and orchestras. Highlights of the 22/23 season include Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House, Illia Idomeneo at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and a return to the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Touted as one of the greatest emerging talents, Canadian conductor Nicolas Ellis brings his affinity for Mozart and versatility of repertoire to the podium. Nicolas is currently Artistic Partner to Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain, and will become Artistic Director of Les Violins du Roy from the 2023-2024 season. At a recent performance with Les Violons du Roy with a programme of Rameau, Haydn, Mozart and Gluck, a critic commented “After a dazzling 5th Symphony by Shostakovich, Nicolas Ellis has just given us one of the most beautiful Mozart symphonies heard in 20 years in Montreal.”

With its unique enthusiasm and artistic quality, Ensemble Resonanz ranks among the world’s leading chamber orchestras. Their concepts connect classical and contemporary music, and their vivid interpretations create resonances between the music, the audience and the stories that develop around the programmes. Violinist and conductor Riccardo Minasi has been the ensemble’s 'Artist in Residence' since 2018 and previous close artistic partnerships of the ensemble include the violist Tabea Zimmermann, the violinist Isabelle Faust, the cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and the conductor Emilio Pomàrico.