About the concert

The opening of the festival will be marked by a music exhibition in the Atrium of the National Museum – hopefully, the first in a series of concerts in a modern setting and carefully selected baroque gems in the repertoire, named Baroque Music Exhibition. Among the performers will be the chamber ensemble of the oldest Jewish choir in the world – The Baruch Brothers, the chamber instrumental ensemble, as well as eminent soloists – Aleksandra Jovanović (soprano), Ladislav Mezei (cello), and Stefan Zekić (conductor, baritone). An attractive and diverse program composed of carefully selected compositions by Rossi, Monteverdi, Loti, Lidarti, Handel, and other relevant baroque composers will be staged by the director Ana Grigorović. A special place in this year’s program belongs to the pieces from Rossi`s Hashirim asher leSholomo, published exactly 400 years ago and to the numbers from Lidarti`s oratorio Esther – a work that will be present, among the others, in the lecture by Prof. Ana Stefanović, programmed for the third festival day.