Events

The Moldau is one of a suite of six pieces entitled Ma Vlast, or My Homeland. It follows the course of the Moldau River from its origins to the sea. Musicologist Paul Stefan says Smetana’s music “sings to us today of the Bohemia of old; its woods and cultivated plains, its villages, its romantic hills and old legends, its great past and even its future.”

Mozart’s opera of lust, betrayal and revenge is prefaced by one of the most dramatic overtures ever written.