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INNSBRUCK: Ferdinando Paër LEONORA
INNSBRUCK: Ferdinando Paër LEONORA
Tuesday 11.VIII.2020 7pm Tiroler Landestheater, Großes Haus (3rd and last performance)
Semi-staged performance by Mariame Clément
Ferdinando Paër does not play a leading role in the history of music. But during his lifetime, the Parma-born composer was at the centre of European music life. One year before Beethoven, he set the French theatrical piece "Léonore ou L'Amour conjugal", based on the libretto by Jean Nicolas Bouilly, to music. In the Beethoven anniversary year 2020, the Festival of Early Music will bring Ferdinando Paër’s back to memory again: with his "Leonora" which was performed in Vienna four days before the première of the new version of Beethoven's "Fidelio". More than 200 years later, the Italian "Leonora", long forgotten in contrast to Beethoven's “Leonore”, now reappears at the Festival. A great opera semiseria that, with poignant melodics as typical in Italian tradition and with a gripping dramatic tone, tells the moving story of the courageous Leonora, who disguised as a man works in a state prison as an assistant to help release her husband Florestano, who is locked away in the darkest dungeon by a tyrant and is at death’s door. (from altemusik.at)
Leonora: Eleonora Bellocci, soprano
Florestano: Paolo Fanale, tenor
Marcellina: Marie Lys, soprano
Rocco: Renato Girolami, bass
Giachino: Luigi De Donato, bass
Don Pizzarro: Carlo Allemano, tenor
Don Ferando: Kresimir Spicer, tenor
Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester
Dir. Alessandro DE MARCHI
in this year of the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, the Early Music Festival of Innsbruck got the interesting idea to create a parallel to his Fidelio with a simalar work Leonora, ossia l'amore coniugale (composed by an Italian (of Austrian descent) called Ferdinando Paer (or Pär or Paër) based on the same story as Beethoven's Fidelio. A real discovery of the composer and the piece for many served by a magnificent cast.
INNSBRUCK: Recital Franco FAGIOLI, countertenor
INNSBRUCK: Recital Franco FAGIOLI, countertenor
"Cara Sposa", arias by Leonardo VINCI
Il Pomo D'Oro, dir. Zefira VALOVA
Wednesday 12.VIII.2020 6.30pm & 9pm, Tiroler Landestheater, Großes Haus (2 concerts)
"Cara sposa" another Handel Recital ? That is what the title would suggest to any baroque music lover knowing the famous & sad aria from Rinaldo. Well a different composer is actually spotlighted here following Mr Fagioli's recent cd release called Veni Vidi Vinci recorded with the same Ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro. Il Pomo D'Oro, dir. Zefira VALOVA
A great moment to live for sure!
INNSBRUCK: Recital Grace DURHAM, mezzo-soprano
INNSBRUCK: Recital Grace DURHAM, mezzo-soprano
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe ROUSSET
From Purcell with Love
Thursday 20.VIII.2020 6.30pm & 9pm Haus der Musik, Großer Saal
Henry Purcell:
If music be the food of love
Celia has a thousand charms
O solitude, my sweetest choice
Suite 2 g-Moll (solo)
Bess of Bedlam
Ah Belinda! (Dido & Aeneas)
Fly swift ye hours
I came, I saw and was undone (The Thraldom)
Suite 7 d-Moll (solo)
From Rosie Bowr’s
The fatal hour comes on apace
Sweeter than roses (Pausarius, the Betrayer of his country)
Music for a while (Oedipus)
After winning the Cesti Singing Competition last year, mezzo-soprano Grace DURHAM will offer to the Innsbruck audience an all Purcell programme under the baton of French baroque specialist Christophe Rousset. Certainly one of the highlights of the frstival !
INNSBRUCK: Alessandro MELANI: L'Empio Punito
INNSBRUCK: Alessandro MELANI: L'Empio Punito
Libretto: Roman poet Filippo Acciaiuoli
Friday 21.VIII.2020 8pm Haus der Musik Innsbruck, Großer Saal
1st of 3 staged performances
Theodora Raftis, soprano
Dioklea Hoxha, soprano
Anna Hybiner, mezzo-soprano
Nataliia Kukhar, mezzo-soprano
Juho Punkeri, tenor
Joel William, tenor
Lorenzo Barbieri, baritone
Ramiro Maturana, bariton
Andrew Munn, bass
Rocco Lia, bass
Orchestra?
Dir. Mariangiola Martello
Regie: Silvia Paoli
Bühnenbild: Andrea Belli
Kostüme: Valeria Donata Bettella
As early as 1669, Alessandro Melani composed an opera called L'empio Punito, about Don Giovanni, with the same plot as Mozart's famous opera. Here Don Giovanni is called Acrimante, while Leporello is called Bibi. Like every year a full production is offered to young singers (mostly coming from the Cesti singing competition), a way to help and support this young generation to develop and improve their skills.
INNSBRUCK: Recital Delphine GALOU, alto
INNSBRUCK: Recital Delphine GALOU, alto
"Vivaldi d’amore", Concerti, cantatas & Arias
Accademia Bizantina
Dir. & harpsichord Ottavio Dantone
Wednesday 22.VIII.2020 8pm, Tiroler Landestheater, Großes Haus
We know how much Vivaldi loved women's voices. He would have certainly cherished Delphine Galou's one, if he had known her. Her many recordings dedicated to the composer have been highly praised.
COLOGNE: Pergolesi Stabat Mater
COLOGNE: Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Friday 28.VIII.2020 5pm St. Mariä Himmelfahrt
Nicola Fiorenza: Concerto D-Dur für Violoncello, zwei Violinen und Basso continuo
Nicola Antonio Porpora: Duett I für Sopran, Alt und Basso continuo aus: Sei duetti latini sulla Passione
Francesco Durante: Concerto Nr. 7 C-Dur
Nicola Antonio Porpora: Rigate lacrimis. Duett II für Sopran, Alt und Basso continuo aus: Sei duetti latini sulla Passione
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater für Sopran, Alt, Streicher und Basso continuo
Marianne Beate Kielland soprano
Christophe Dumaux Countertenor
Freiburger BarockConsort
COLOGNE: Alessandro Scarlatti Il Giardino d’Amore
COLOGNE: Alessandro Scarlatti Il Giardino d’Amore
Philharmonie, Friday 28.VIII.2020 7pm
Alessandro Scarlatti:
1) Concerto a-Moll für Blockflöte und Orchester from Concerti di flauto, violini e basso di diversi autori (Manuskript), Neapel 1725
2) Il Giardino d’Amore, serenata a due
Adonis: Roberta Mameli soprano
Venus: Xavier Sabata countertenor
Ensemble 1700
Dorothee Oberlinger
Due to the pandemic, the programme has been changed. Initially, a different serenata by Scarlatti was scheduled along with a Polifemo by Bononcini. Well, certainly a work to dicover for many of us.
COLOGNE: William SHELTON, countertenor
COLOGNE: William SHELTON, countertenor
Philharmonie, Saturday 29.VIII.2020 9pm
Works by Georg Muffat, Johann Christian Bach, Picforth, David Lang, Johannes Schöllhorn a. o.
William Shelton Countertenor
Joosten Elée violin
Yves Ytier violin
Ildiko Ludwig viola
Liam Byrne Viola da Gamba
David Bergmüller Laute
Philipp Lamprecht drums
Elina Albach Cembalo, Truhenorgel
Simon Heinze Klangdesign
The young English-French countertenor was finalist of the Froville Baroque Singing Competition a few years ago. Baroque news attended one of his recitals (Vivaldi Nisi Dominus...) afterwards and we can tell he is a countertenor not to be missed!
COLOGNE: 'Alla Napoletana' L'Arpeggiata, Pluhar
COLOGNE: 'Alla Napoletana' L'Arpeggiata, Pluhar
Philharmonie, Sunday 30.VIII.2020 8pm
Die Hauptstadt der Musik des 17. Jahrhunderts
Works by Andrea Falconieri, Cristofaro Caresana, Francesco Provenzale, Luigi Rossi, Pietro Antonio Giramo a. o.
Céline Scheen soprano
Valer Sabadus countertenor
Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano
Vincenzo Capezzuto alto
Alessandro Giangrande tenor
João Fernandes bass-baritone
Anna Dego dancer
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar Theorbo & conducting
To finish the Cologne Festival of great baroque interpreters, Christinal Pluhar has prepared a special Italian programme with no less than 6 excellent singers and one dancer. A dazzling evening for sure.
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