Bastien und Bastienne to perform of Mozart's juvenile works. Bastienne, a shepherdess, fears that her "dearest friend", Bastien, has forsaken her for another pretty face, and decides to go into the pasture to be comforted by her flock of lambs. Before she can leave, however, she runs into Colas, the village soothsayer. Bastienne requests the help of his magical powers to help win back her Bastien. Colas (being a soothsayer) knows all about the problem, and comforts her with the knowledge that Bastien has not abandoned her, rather, he's merely been distracted lately by 'the lady of the manor'. His advice is to
Janko Kastelic In 2002 he won the position as an assistant in the Vienna State Opera, where he also conducted performances of "Das Traumfresserchen", "Aladdin" and "Bastien und Bastienne". He has prepared works for the Klangbogen Festival Vienna and the Salzburger Festspiele and was the conductor of the TU Orchester Wien, where he led novel orchestra concerts focusing on French and Classical repertoire. He was responsible for the demanding choruses in "Moses und Aron" by Arnold Schoenberg at the Vienna State Opera in March 2007. In 2008 he conducted performances of "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss at the Musik Theater Schönbrunn in