Opera Festival: Mozart and Salieri with Musical Traditions

Opera Festival: Timucua is known to everyone as the world’s best living room concert hall. With the help of our ACS system, we transform it into a world-class European opera house.

Musical Traditions Inc. is the brainchild of Aleksandra Vargas, Sergei Kossenko, and others. They aim to bring high-quality vocal musical performances to Central Florida.

Here, they perform a chamber version of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s one-act opera: Mozart and Salieri.

Few relationships in history have captured the public’s imagination like that of composers Mozart and Salieri. Mozart, a child prodigy who’s natural gifts propelled him to the height of fame, and Salieri, a self made man overshadowed by his portent colleague. Letters between the two men reveal a cordial professional relationship of mutual respect. However, the two men were rivals, and the controversy surrounding Mozart’s death, fueled rumors of a more sinister dynamic. This one-act opera explores one theory of this infamous association that led to a tragic end for both men. It is sung in the English translation of the Russian libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin’s 1830 verse drama of the same name. This opera is a thought provoking drama that will leave the audience wondering “what if….”.

Personnel:

Joseph Irrera, Piano
Aleksandra Vargas, Director
Stephen Mumbert, Salieri
Nicholas Matthews, Mozart

In-person and livestream tickets available.

Special pricing for members, students, teachers, frontline workers, veterans, and seniors.

This performance is part of Timucua’s Opera Festival 2025.

Please bring a bottle of wine to share.

Free parking available on Summerlin Ave. or at Wadeview Park

Location: The White House

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