Mahler & Freud: A Viennese Encounter

03/08/2026
60 min
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Raffaello Morales, founder of London’s Fidelio Café and conductor of the Fidelio Orchestra, joins renowned critic and cultural historian Norman Lebrecht, whose works on Mahler explore Jewish creativity and fin-de-siècle Vienna. Together they discuss The Earth to the Skies, Morales’s atmospheric novel rooted in the worlds of Mahler and Freud at a moment when art, psychology, and identity were being reinvented. The conversation is accompanied by acclaimed soprano Chen Reiss, performing songs from Mahler’s Rückert Lieder.

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Chen Reiss

With “a voice of silver brightness and clarity” (Bachtrack) with “immaculately produced and enticing tone matched by superb musicianship” (Opera News), soprano Chen Reiss came to prominence as a member of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera and as resident artist at the Vienna State Opera. Highlights of the 2025/26 season include her debut […]

Raffaello Morales

Raffaello Morales, Roman by birth, trained as a classical pianist and as a physicist. He pursued postgraduate studies in Theoretical Physics and holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from King’s College London. He worked in derivatives risk management for JP Morgan Chase for a number of years and picked up conducting in the same years, also […]

Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht is the author of fifteen works of non-fiction, including Genius and Anxiety, and the international bestsellers The Maestro Myth, Why Mahler? and The Life and Death of Classical Music, which have been translated into seventeen languages. His first novel, The Song of Names, is now an award-winning film. He writes a monthly essay […]

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Mahler & Freud: A Viennese Encounter

03/08/2026
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60 min

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Chen Reiss

With “a voice of silver brightness and clarity” (Bachtrack) with “immaculately produced and enticing tone matched by superb musicianship” (Opera News), soprano Chen Reiss...

Raffaello Morales

Raffaello Morales, Roman by birth, trained as a classical pianist and as a physicist. He pursued postgraduate studies in Theoretical Physics and holds a...

Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht is the author of fifteen works of non-fiction, including Genius and Anxiety, and the international bestsellers The Maestro Myth, Why Mahler? and...