OCTOBER 2020 Upcomings

VIENNA: VIVALDI BAJAZET

Theater an der Wien 09.X.2020

Tragedia per musica in three acts (1735)

Music by Antonio Vivaldi

Libretto by Agostino Piovene

In Italian with German surtitles

New production Theater an der Wien at the Kammeroper

Premiere: Saturday, 26 September 2020, 7 pm. Performances: 28 / 30 September & / 2 / 4 / 7 / 9 / 11 / 13 October 2020, 7 pm until 9 pm (no intermission)

BAJAZET: Kristján Jóhannesson, bass-baritone

TAMERLANO: Rafał Tomkiewicz, countertenor (26.09. - 04.10.)

TAMERLANO: Filippo Mineccia, countertenor (09.10. - 13.10.)

ASTERIA: Sofia Vinnik, mezzo-soprano

ANDRONICO: Andrew Morstein, tenor

IRENE: Valentina Petraeva, soprano

IDASPE: Miriam Kutrowatz, soprano

Bach Consort Wien

CONDUCTOR: Roger Díaz-Cajamarca

DIRECTOR: Krystian Lada

SET DESIGN: Didzis Jaunzems

COSTUME DESIGN: Natalia Kitamikado

LIGHT DESIGN: Franz Tscheck

Any Vivaldi production is a blessing (a feeling even stronger in these pandemic times): so few of his operas are played or staged. Let's hope for a good cast and staging and not so many score cuts (restricted length due to the pandemic).

WÜRZBURG: Handel Pasticio "GARTEN DER LÜSTE, oder wie Rinaldo der Zauberin Armida beinahe erliegt"

(Garden of Delights or how Rinaldo almosty yields to the sorceress Armida)

Sunday 18 October 2020 15h, Theaterfabrik Blaue Halle

length: 75 minutes, no intermission

Premiere on 10. October 2020

Guibee Yang (Armida)
Silke Evers (Almirena)
Marzia Marzo (Rinaldo)
Roberto Ortiz (Goffredo)
Hinrich Horn (Argante)
Barbara Schöller (Un Mago)
Mathew Habib (Una Sirena)
Igor Tsarkov (Una Sirena)

Philharmonisches Orchester Würzburg

Musikalische Leitung: Enrico Calesso

Regie: Andreas Wiedermann

Bühnen- und Kostümbild: Aylin Kaip

Licht: Mariella von Vequel-Westernach

Dramaturgie: Berthold Warnecke

Operas' lengths tend to shorten because of the pandemic restrictions. Instead of getting a full Rinaldo, one gets a 75mn pasticcio. Well, better than nothing since it is already a "miracle" to have these operas still going on !

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