JANUARY 2020

This New Year's Concert should be a real treat with fantastic soprano Louise Alder ! Baroque News has often enjoyed her singing in Giulio Cesare, Semele...

FRANCFORT: Handel Radamisto

Opera House Sunday 12 January 2020 3.30pm

Radamisto: Dmitry Egorov (picture)

Zenobia: Zanda Švēde

Polissena: Paula Murrihy

Tiridate : Kihwan Sim

Tigrane: Kateryna Kasper

Fraarte: Vince Yi

Farasmane: Božidar Smiljanić

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Musikalische Leitung: Simone Di Felice

Inszenierung: Tilmann Köhler

Szenische Leitung der Wiederaufnahme: Benjamin Cortez

Bühnenbild: Karoly Risz

Kostüme: Susanne Uhl

Licht: Joachim Klein

Video: Bibi Abel

Dramaturgie: Zsolt Horpácsy

What a good idea to revive this production moved from Bockenheimer Depot to the Opera House where the accoustics is much better. Dmitry Egorov, still unfairly unknown, should be a wonderful Radamisto.

PARIS / ESSEN: Handel Orlando

Paris Théâtre des Champs Élysées Monday 13 January 2020 7.30pm

Essen Philharmonie Sunday 19 January 2020 7pm

Orlando: Christophe Dumaux (Paris) / Max Emanuel Cencic (Essen)
Angelica: Kathryn Lewek
Medoro: Delphine Galou
Dorinda: Nuria Rial
Zoroastro: John Chest (replacing Luca Pisaroni)

Il Pomo d’Oro

Francesco Corti direction

Franco Fagioli has cancelled the whole tour unfortunately. A role too low for his voice ? Well, he will be replaced by two other wonderful countertenors: Christophe Dumaux in Paris and Max Emanuel Cencic for the rest of the tour.

METZ: Jakub Orlinski

Arsenal Mardi 14 January 2020 8pm

Facce d'Amore

Jacub Jozef Orlinski, countertenor

Il Pomo d'Oro

Dir. Francesco Corti

Francesco Cavalli : Sinfonia + Erme e solinghe… Lucidissima face (Endimione) from La Calisto (1661)

Giovanni Antonio Boretti : Chi scherza con Amor (Eliogabalo) from Eliogabalo (1668)

Giovanni Antonio Boretti : Sinfonia + Crudo amor non hai pieta (Claudio) from Claudio Cesare (1672)

Giovanni Bononcini : Infelice mia costanza (Aminta) from La Costanza non gradita (1694)

Giovanni Bononcini : Sinfonia - La Nemica d'Amore fatta amante INSTRUMENTAL

Luca Antonio Predieri : Finche salvo e l’amor suo (Scipione) from Scipione i Giovane (1731)

Georg Friedrich Haendel : Ah stige larve! … Vaghe pupille (Orlando) from Orlando (1719)

Georg Friedrich Haendel: Spera che tra le care gioie (Muzio) from Muzio Scevola (1721)

Johann Adolph Hasse : Sempre a si vaghi rai (Orfeo) for Farinelli

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti : Odio, vendetta, amor (Fernando) from Don Chisciotte (1719)

Matteis Nicola : Ballo dei Bagatellieri from Don Chisciotte in Siera Morena (1719) Instrumental

Luca Antonio Predieri: Dovrian quest’occhi piangere (Scipione) from Scipione i Giovane (1731)

Giuseppe Maria Orlandini / Johann Mattheson : Che m'ami ti prega - (Nerone) from Nerone (1721)

The very popular countertenor Jakub Orlinski will present his new baroque programme called Facce d'Amore which should seduce the audience.

VALLETTA: Simone Kermes

Teatru Manoel, Valletta Saturday 25 January 2020 7.30pm

Bel Canto di Napoli

Antonio VIVALDI: Concerto (Sinfonia) in G Major RV 146

Nicola Antonio PORPORA: Vedra turbato il mare (Mitridate)

Antonio VIVALDI: Concerto in D minor RV 128

Nicola Antonio PORPORA: Alto Giove (Polifemo)

Antonio VIVALDI: Olimpiade - Overture

George Frideric HANDEL: Ombra mai fu (Serse)

Nicola Antonio PORPORA: Come nave in ria tempesta (Semiramide regina dell`Assiria)

Antonio VIVALDI: Dopo un’orrida procella (La Griselda)

Concerto in G minor RV 156

Gelido in ogni vena (Farnace)

Johann Adolf HASSE: Symphony in G minor op. 5 No. 6

Giovanni Battista PERGOLESI: aria from L’Olimpiade

Antonio VIVALDI: Dite, ohimé (La Fida Ninfa)

Johann Adolf HASSE: Come nave in mezzo all’onde (Viriate)

Simone Kermes, Soprano

Amici Veneziani, dir. Raffaele Tiseo

The stunning soprano Simone Kermes should end the Valetta baroque festival with a fireworks of music !

HEIDELBERG: Schürmann Die Getreue Alceste

Schwetzingen Rokokotheater Saturday 11 January 2019 19h30

Oper in drei Akten von Georg Caspar Schürmann

Libretto by Johann Ulrich König,

Alceste Sophie Junker (picture 2)
Admetus Rupert Enticknap
Hercules Ipča Ramanović
Hyppolite Elisabeth Breuer
Pheres/Licomedes Stefan Sbonnik
Cephise Emmanuelle de Negri (picture 3)
Thetis/Pallas/Prosperin/Ensemble Baiba Urka
Cleantes/Ensemble Aline Quentin
Charon/Strato/Ensemble Lars Conrad
Pluto/Ensemble Maximilian Haschemi

Statisterie des Theaters und Orchesters Heidelberg

Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg

Musikalische Leitung Christina Pluhar (picture 1) | Claudio Novati

Regie Jan Eßinger

Bühne und Kostüme Benita Roth

Dramaturgie Thomas Böckstiegel

An unknown opera by an unkown composer played by a stellar team ! Well a discovery not to be missed ?

PARIS: HANDEL SAUL

Théâtre du Châtelet, Friday 31 January 2020, 8 pm

Saul, King of Israel: Christopher Purves
Merab, Saul's daughter: Karina Gauvin (picture 1)
Michal, Saul's daughter: Anna Devin (picture 2)
Jonathan, Saul's son: Benjamin Hullet
David: Christopher Ainslie
High Priest: Stuart Jackson
Endor's witche: John Graham-Hall

Dancers: Thomas Herron, Robin Gladwin, Hellyn Hebron, Merry Holden, Yasset Roldan, Gareth Mole

Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques

Musical direction & Chamber organ: Laurence Cummings

Direction: Barrie Kosky

Choreography: Otto Pichler

Setting and costumes: Katrin Lea Tag

Lighting design: Joachim Klein

After its creation and revival at Glyndebourne Festival, the French audience will have the great opportunity to attend this phenomenal production. Not to be missed !

BASEL: Mozart Grosse Messe in c-Moll

Theodorskirche, Tuesday January 28; 19:30

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Litaniae Lauretanae B.M.V., KV 195
Grosse Messe in c-Moll, KV 427

Margriet Buchberger, Soprano

Carolyn Sampson , Soprano

Richard Resch, Tenor

José Antonio López, Bass

Andrea Marcon, Conductor

Andrea Marcon conducting Mozart ? Not very usual ! Well, this conductor usually makes wonders with whatever he interprets...

VALETTA BAROQUE FESTIVAL: Stabat Mater / Ghislieri C.

Monday 20: Collegiate Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception, Bormla 19:30

Baldassarre GALUPPI: Dixit Dominus for the Ducal Cappella di S. Marco in G minor for Choir, solos, strings and continuo

Antonio VIVALDI: Stabat Mater for Alto solo, strings and continuo, RV 621

Antonio VIVALDI: Sonata a 4 al Santo Sepolcro, RV 130

Emanuele RINCÓN D’ASTORGA: Stabat Mater for choir, soloists, strings and continuo

Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri, dir. Giulio Prandi

VALETTA BAROQUE FESTIVAL: Nicholas Mulroy, tenor

Tuesday 21: San Anton Palace, Attard, 12 noon

AT ONCE IT CHARMS THE SENSE...

Nicholas Mulroy, tenor & Elizabeth Kenny, theorbo

Robert Johnson (c 1583-c 1634): Have you seen the bright lily grow

Philip Rosseter (1568-1623): What then is love

Robert Johnson: Care-charming sleep

Philip Rosseter: Fantasia

John Dowland (1563-1626): Flow, my tears / Come again, sweet love

Robert de Visée (1650-1725): Prélude

Michel Lambert (1610-1696): Vos mépris chaque jour

Robert de Visée: Allemande

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704): Tristes Déserts

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643): Tempro la cetra

Alessandro Grandi (1586-after 1630): O intemerata

Claudio Monteverdi: Si dolce è il tormento

Girolamo Kapsberger (c1580-1651): Toccata, Canario, Colscione

Henry Purcell (1659-1695): ‘Tis nature’s voice / O Fair Cedaria

/ When first Amintas / Music for a While

The baroque specialist Nicholas Mulroy in an intimate programme, music by Dowland and other contemporaries.

VALETTA BAROQUE FESTIVAL: Biber Requiem

Tuesday 21: Parish Church of St George, Qormi, 19:30

Heinrich Ignaz Franz VON BIBER (1644-1704):

Fidicinium Sacro-Profanum Sonata No 1 in B minor

Sonata X - from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes

Requiem in F minor

Valletta Baroque Ensemble, dir. Stefano Molardi

Kor Malta, under the direction of Riccardo Bianchi

VALETTA BAROQUE FESTIVAL: Bach Goldbergs Reinvented

Wednesday 22: Maritime Museum, Birgu, 12 noon

Houtaf KHOURY (b. 1967): MarimBach

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750): Goldberg Variations (arranged for clarinet, violin and marimba)

MOA Trio:

Dimitri Ashkenazy, clarinet

Deborah Marchetti, violin

Jacqueline Ott, marimba

VALETTA BAROQUE FESTIVAL: La Grande Chapelle / Albert Recasens

Wednesday 22: St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, 19:30

PEDRO RUIMONTE - MUSIC AT THE COURT OF THE ARCHDUKES ALBERT & ISABELLA CLARA EUGENIA

La Grande Chapelle, dir. Albert Recasens

Peter Philips (1560/61-1628): Benedictus Dominus, motet 8 vv / Iubilate Deo, motet 8 vv

Pedro Ruimonte (1565-1627): Quiero dormir y no puedo, villancico 6 vv / Mal puede estar escondida, villancico 6 vv

Pieter Cornet (1570/80-1633): Fantasia 8° toni (instrumental)

Pedro Ruimonte: ¿Has visto al despuntar…?, madrigal 4 vv

Caduco tiempo, madrigal 4 vv

De la piel de sus ovejas, villancico 5 vv (instrumental)

Sancta Maria, succurre miseris, motet 8 vv

Peter Philips: Caecilia virgo, motet 8 vv / Sicut misit me vivens Pater, motete 3 vv

Pedro Ruimonte: Virgen escogida, villancico 5 vv

Anónimo: Como suele el blanco cisne, romance 3 vv

Pedro Ruimonte: Mal guardará ganado, madrigal 4 vv / Esperanza tardía, madrigal 5 vv (1, 3 y 4)

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583- 1643): Canzon vigesimanona, a 8 (instrumental)

Pedro Ruimonte: El que partir se atreve, madrigal 6 vv / De vuestro divino pecho, villancico 6 vv

Peter Philips: O quam suavis est [ii], motet 8 vv

VALETTA BAROQUE FESTIVAL: Katherine Watson, soprano

Thursday 23: Verdala Palace, Buskett, 12 noon

Katherine Watson, soprano & Elizabeth Kenny, theorbo

MUSICA CLANDESTINA

Barbara STROZZI (1619-1677): Amor dormiglione / L’Eraclito amoroso

Claudio MONTEVERDI (1567-1643): Lettera amorosa

Francesca CACCINI (1587-after 1641): Ch’Amor sia nudo

/ Dispieagte guancie amate

Hieronymus KAPSBERGER (c. 1580-1651): Toccata

Barbara STROZZI: Ardo in Tacito Foco / L’Astratto

To celebrate female composer Strozzi,

VALETTA BAROQUE FESTIVAL: Florilegium / Solomon

Thursday 23: Jesuits' Church, Valletta, 7:30 pm

MUSIC FROM THE MISSIONS

Ignacio BALBI (ca.1695-ca.1773): Sonata Chiquitana No.9

Anonymous: Stella Coeli / Tota Pulchra / Sonata Chiquitana No.4

Juan DE AROUJO (1646-1712): Al Llanto mas tierno / Si el amore

Domenico ZIPOLI (1688-1726): Motet In Hoc Mundo

Anonymous: Pastoretta Ychepe flauta

Pietro Antonio LOCATELLI (1695-1764): Sonata Chiquitana No. 10

Anonymous: Caima Iyai Jesu

Domenico ZIPOLI: Beatus Vir

Karina Troiano (soprano)
Laura Jarrell (soprano)
Rebekah Jones (mezzo soprano)
Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)

Florilegium, dir. Ashley Solomon

VALETTA BAROQUE FESTIVAL: Raffaele Pé, countertenor

Friday 24: Teatru Manoel, Valletta, 7:30 pm

GIULIO CESARE. A BAROQUE HERO

Raffaele Pe, countertenor

La Lira di Orfeo, dir. Luca Giardini

Geminiano GIACOMELLI (1692-1740): Sinfonia - “Cesare in Egitto”, Venice 1735

George Frideric HANDEL (1685-1759): Va tacito e nascosto - “Giulio Cesare in Egitto”, London 1724

Carlo Francesco POLLAROLO (1653-1723): Sdegnoso turbine - “Giulio Cesare in Egitto”, Rome 1713

Francesco BIANCHI (1752-1810): Saprò d’ogn’alma audace - “La morte di Cesare”, Venice 1788

George Frideric HANDEL: Sinfonia - “Giulio Cesare in Egitto”, London 1724

Geminiano GIACOMELLI: Il cor che sdegnato - “Cesare in Egitto”

George Frideric HANDEL: Al lampo dell’armi - “Giulio Cesare in Egitto”, London 1724

Francesco BIANCHI: Sinfonia - “La morte di Cesare”, Venice 1788

Niccolò PICCINNI (1728-1800): Tergi le belle lagrime - “Cesare in Egitto”, Milan 1770

Rising star countertenor Raffaele Pe should be one of the highlights of the festival !

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