Casa da Música begins new season with Austria as the theme series

One of the best concert halls of the past years, Casa da Música (CdM) boasts a unique roll call of concerts for the 2018 season.

The year Austria sets the tune for this season, on 12th January, with a concert by Porto Symphonic Orchestra Casa da Música, with Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, directed by Michael Sanderling, starting at 9 pm, at Sala Suggia.

2018 brings Anton Bruckner's symphonies and Mozart's Concertos for Violin. This is the second time that CdM devotes its programme to Austria as a theme-country whose productions are "almost endless", referred Casa da Música Artistic Director, António Jorge Pacheco.

This year's residential composer is Austrian Georg Friederich Haas, one of the most reputed European artists today, also featuring German harpsichord-player Andreas Staier, Austrian violinist Benjamin Schmid, and Gonçalo Gato as the in-residency composer.

One of the highlights is the concert on 24 February, featuring Porto Symphonic Orchestra and Choir of Casa da Música who will play "Gurrelieder", by Arnold Schoenberg, a rarely played piece which premieres in Porto.

See here the 2018 Programme of Casa da Música.