Unmasking Mozart

March 7, 2026 | 7:30 P.M.
Frontier Center for the Performing Arts

Powdered wigs? Polite background music? Not this time.

The Idaho Falls Symphony invites audiences to experience classical music with the masks off. Unmasking Mozart, performed at the Frontier Center for the Performing Arts, peels back the elegance of the Classical era to reveal something far more exciting: urgency, humor, bold invention, and music that still pulses with life.

Part of Maestro Thomas Heuser’s fifteenth and final season as Music Director, this program moves from theatrical drama to playful reinvention to symphonic brilliance — all in one vibrant evening.

The concert opens with Haydn’s rarely heard Overture to The Soul of the Philosopher, a concise but powerful work full of tension and expressive depth.

Then Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite flips tradition on its head, remixing Baroque elegance with sharp rhythms and mischievous charm. Performed in an intimate chamber setting and featuring Idaho Falls Symphony musicians as soloists, every line is clear, colorful, and alive.

The night culminates in Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, “Linz,” famously written in just four days. Confident, energetic, and bursting with momentum, it brings the evening to a dazzling close.

Whether you're planning a date night, gathering friends, or simply curious about experiencing live orchestral music in a new way, Unmasking Mozart delivers classical music up close — vibrant, surprising, and anything but predictable.

Get your tickets now and see what’s behind the mask!

Thomas Heuser, conductor

      Haydn, L'anima del filosofo (The Soul of the Philosopher)

      Igor Stravinsky Suite from Pulcinella 

      W.A. Mozart, Symphony No. 36, “Linz”

Don't miss Prologues! Join Thomas for a journey inside the music before the concert, at 6:30, in the Little Theater. 

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