Proms 2026 The OAE Plays Mozart and Haydn

A musical postcard from 18th-century Vienna. The threat to Austria from Napoleon’s army is vividly rendered in the turbulent opening of Haydn’s choral tour de force the ‘Nelson Mass’, but it’s Nelson’s victory we hear in the celebratory ending. There’s brooding spiritual darkness from Zelenka’s Miserere and Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music – written in response to the deaths of two of the composer’s fellow Freemasons. Soprano Erin Morley is the soloist in two of Mozart’s showstopping ‘insertion’ arias.

Erin Morley © Dario Acosta