AUGUST 2020 Upcomings

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

"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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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.