1764. Durante más de un año, Josef ha llevado una vida precaria en Venecia. Aspira a ser compositor de ópera. La ciudad, llena de autores con talento y ya consolidados, parece cerrada para él. Buscando trabajo como violinista, entra en la órbita de una joven adinerada. Gracias a ella tiene la oportunidad de tocar en salones. Pero su verdadera oportunidad surge cuando se convierte en el amante de una marquesa libertina. Ella le enseña modales sofisticados, le libra de los trazos de su origen provinciano y le introduce en una existencia hedonista libre de intolerancia religiosa. Transformado, Josef recibe un increíble encargo: escribir una ópera para el San Carlo, el teatro más grande de Europa.
Self – Mezzo-soprano
Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he had an eye on Ode to Joy, perhaps the most well-known poem by Friedrich Schiller, written on the threshold of the French Revolution (1786). In his mature and, in particular, later years, the deaf composer with an acute ‘hearing vision’ increasingly distanced himself from conventional forms and genres and wrote parts beyond the possibilities of instruments of his day. He nurtured the idea of a symphony with a choir for at least several years. The history of the Ninth’s interpretations includes 200 years of staggering revelations and lingering stagnation. Performed by the musicAeterna orchestra, choir, and guest soloists under the baton of Teodor Currentzis, Beethoven’s opus magnum acquires the original poignancy and energy of a recent discovery.
