In honor of the current title of the Youth Capital of Europe and towards the title of the European Capital of Culture in 2021, Novi Sad was selected as the first city to host the Serbian premiere of one of the most popular opera of the baroque master George Friedrich Haendl, a composer born in 1685. in Halle, Germany, who spent most of his life in England where he was buried at the London Pantheon of Art Westminster Abbey next to William Blake, Charles Darwin, Henry Purcell, John Milton, Benjamin Britten and others. New Belgrade Opera, in cooperation with choir and orchestra on the historical instruments of the New Trinity Baroque ensemble and international soloists, will perform the opera „Acis and Galatea HWV 49“ by G. F. Haendl under the baton of its artistic director, Maestro Predrag Gosta. The eternal theme of love, dionysian and apollonian principle of ambivalence, of which Nietzsche spoke in his book “The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music”, which inspires artists of various profiles through history, will again be found in the focus, this time on the scene of the old Jewish temple in Novi Sad and one of the most acoustic halls in the region the Grand hall of Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade.
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