The Creation

Haydn’s late masterpiece performed by Václav Luks conducting the Orchestra & Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, one of the world’s most celebrated period instrument ensembles.

“The Creation is a work that combines the old with the new in a fascinating manner, in a way the culmination of Haydn’s musical dramatic language. We find here many beautiful, dramatic moments that directly call for visual representation. It would be difficult to find a more avant-garde musical structure at the end of the 18th century than the depiction of chaos at the beginning of the world in the Introduction. On the other hand, The Creation is to a large extent a traditionally religious work, having strong support in the Old Testament model. After all, Haydn himself admits that, while composing The Creation, ʽhe was more pious than ever beforeʼ,” conductor Václav Luks describing one of the most remarkable works from the end of the 18th century, which will be performed in the Rudolfinum’s Dvořák Hall on 28 May. Luks will present Joseph Haydn’s late tour de force, inspired by the oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel, at the Prague Spring in collaboration with the period instrument ensemble Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Choir of the Age of Enlightenment and three first-rate soloists.

Tickets: 900 – 2 600 CZK